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John Overton

John Overton

  • Class
  • Induction
    2016
  • Sport(s)
Yale 1916

Running at the Relays in his sophomore and junior years at Yale, Overton anchored record-setting relays both years. In 1915, running the first distance medley in world history, he closed out the school’s 10:20.0 distance medley team, a mark so ahead of its time that it lasted as a meet record for 13 years. In 1916 he anchored a Relays and national collegiate record-setting Two-Mile Relay team to time of 7:53.0, a mark which lasted four years.
 
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