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Aubrey Lewis (c. 1935 – December 10, 2001) was an American football player and track athlete who was the first African American to be captain of a Notre Dame Fighting Irish athletic team and a member of the first Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent training program to include black people.
Green was named captain of the Harvard track team for the 1935–36 season. [3] He represented the school at the Harvard–Yale–Oxford–Cambridge meet at London's White City Stadium and won the broad jump and 220-yard low hurdles. [8] In 1936, the annual triangular track meet at Boston Garden was expanded to include Yale.
The team was coached by Mike Murphy who died in 1913. It is said Lippincott ran the 220 y in world record time to guarantee Murphy his last championship. In 1915, Lippincott was named captain of the track team. [5] Lippincott also did well in other areas of student life. He was a member of: [5] Phi Kappa Beta Junior Honorary Society; Sphinx ...
He played football for Penn State, and was All-American. He was also captain of the track team. [9] In track, he won the IC4A and Penn Relays shot put and discus, as well as qualifying for the javelin finals, and was a Track & Field All-American in 1954 and 1955. [10]
He was the first African-American to win the U.S. decathlon championship and the first African-American to be selected as the captain of any athletic team at the University of Michigan, being selected as the captain of the Michigan track team in 1939.
Jordan excelled in track, rugby and football. Jordan was a star athlete at Pasadena High School in Pasadena, California, and graduated from the University of Southern California (USC), where he was captain of the Trojans' National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship track team in 1939. He helped the Trojans win two national ...
Jaakko Tuominen (4 May 1944 – 27 October 2001) was a Finnish hurdler.He competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics, [3] where he was the captain of the track team. [4]
The team captain, in some sports, is selected by the team coach, who may consider factors ranging from playing ability to leadership to serving as a good moral example to the team. [2] Coaches may also choose to change team captains from time to time, or to have a rotation of team captains. [2] Some of the greatest captains in history are the ...