Olympic Games Gold Medalist Athlete. He was a member of the 1900 United States Olympic track and field team that competed in the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, France, and set a record for track and field athletes by winning for individual gold medals. Called the "The Father of the Modern Hurdling Technique", he was an outstanding athlete at the University of Wisconsin, winning the 1897 Amateur Athletic Union title in the 220-yard low hurdles and setting a world record the same year in the 300-yard low hurdles. He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he led Penn's track and field team to four titles. Selected for the 1900 Olympic team, he easily became the most successful athlete of the games, winning four individual gold medals. His first gold was won in the men's 110-metres hurdles event, where in the finals he beat two of his American teammates to win the meet, while also setting a then-world record with a time of 15.4 seconds. He then won the 60-meter event, where he defeated a field that included American teammate Walter Tewksbury, who came in second, and the long jump event, besting teammate Myer Prinstein. Lastly, he won the 200-meter event, winning the race handily over Anglo-Indian Norman Pritchard, despite being penalized a meter due to a false start. His four gold medals still stands as a record for any Olympic track and field athlete for a single Olympiad. After the Games, he retired and went into coaching, holding at the time six world track and field records. He coached for the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania, and served in the United States Army during World War I, heading athletic training programs. He passed away in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1927 at the age of 51.