Brutus Hamilton
Brutus Hamilton
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| Brutus Hamilton | |
| Height | 6'0" (183 cm) |
|---|---|
| Weight | 176 lbs (80 kg) |
| Nationality | United States |
| PR | Decathlon – 5,936 (1920) |
| Born | July 19, 1900 at Peculiar, MO |
| Died | December 28, 1970 at Berkeley, CA |
| College | University of Missouri '22 |
| Club | Kansas City Athletic Club |
Brutus Kerr Hamilton (1900-1970) was an American decathlete who competed in the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics, and coached at the University of California, Berkeley.
When Hamilton was 6, his foot was injured and his hip dislocated in a accident, and doctors predicted that he would never walk normally.[1]
Hamilton lead the Harrisonville HS track team to the 1918 state championship where he won the high jump, pole vault, shot put and broad jump. He set state records in the pole vault and high jump.[1]
As a student at the University of Missouri, Hamilton lettered in both football and track. He won both the 1920 AAU pentathlon and decathlon and at the Olympics placed sixth in the pentathlon and took the silver medal in the decathlon. Hamilton had lead during the entire 1920 decathlon, but was passed in the last event. In 1924 he competed in the Olympic pentathlon for a second time and placed seventh.
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Coaching career
He taught and coached football at Westminster College in Fulton, MO from 1922 to 1929.[1] From 1929 to 1932, he was head track coach at the University of Kansas. He was coach at Cal/Berkeley from 1932-65 and during that time his team won six NCAA championships and 14 NCAA individual titles. Among Hamilton's athletes at the University of California were sprinter Harold Davis, pole vaulter Guinn Smith, and middle distance runners Jerry Siebert and Don Bowden, the first American to break four minutes for the mile. Hamilton left coaching after the attack on Pearl Harbor to serve in the Army Air Corps, but returned after the war to resume coaching also also as Athletic Director.As an assistant coach for the U.S. teams at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, Hamilton guided gold-winning decathletes James Bausch (in 1932) and Glenn Morris (1936). Hamilton was head coach of the 1952 Olympics men's track team that won an outstanding 14 gold medals.
 | AwardsIn 1950 he was voted Missouri’s Greatest Amateur Athlete. In 1974, Hamilton was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. Track meets at both Harrisonville, MO and the University of California have been named in his honor.[1] He was inducted into the the University of California Athletics Hall of Fame, the University of Missouri Athletics Hall of Fame, and also the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame. |
External links
- sports-reference.com profile
- USATF Hall of Fame bio
- Profile at Olympics database
- Letter from Hamilton to Hargiss
- Cass County Historical Society (PDF)
- USTFCCCA Hall of Fame bio
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 http://www.casscountyhistoricalsociety.org/hamilton.pdf Retrieved 2009-02-02.
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