Biography on milt campbell

(b. 9 December 1933 in Plainfield, New Jersey), Olympic decathlon champion, hurdler, and football player who is considered one of the best athletes of the twentieth century.

Campbell was the second of three children of Thomas Campbell, a construction worker, and Edith Campbell, a homemaker. He attended Emerson Primary School and Plainfield High School, where he was a scholastic All-American in football, swimming, and track. The only time he competed in wrestling, he bested the New Jersey wrestling champion in his weight class. In February 1952 Campbell appeared in his first indoor track meet at the National Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) High School Indoor Track and Field championships at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He won the sixty-yard high hurdles and the high jump in record-setting performances. He also qualified for the National AAU high-hurdles championships held that night and, running as part of the Young Men's Christia Bill toomey.