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Cunningham played center on the basketball team at Elkhart high
school and fullback on the football team, in addition to running on the
track team. His college coaches say that Glenn could have been a star
in any sport, but he dropped all ian upeete once he reached college,
to concentrate on running.

Glenn entered the University of Kansas in the fall of 1930 and
wwas out of competition that year, due to being a freshman, In the
fall of 1931 he was a member of the Kansas two mile team and at the
end of the season received a medal as the outstanding two miler in
the Big Six Conference.

The following spring Cunningham won from all of his Big Six
opponents, frequently running the half-mile, mile and two mile all
in the same meet. In July of that year he won the National Collegiate
championship in the record time of 4:11.1. His next race that summer
was in the final Olympic team tryouts and he finished second to win
a place on the American Olympic teams —

In the 1932 Olympics Glenn, a sophomore, was the first American
to finish in the 1500 meter run. He wes fourth, but had turned in
a great performance.

Glenn's coach these first two years at KeU. had been Brutus
tanh ten, one of the country's outstanding track mentors. Hamilton
after the Olympics, resigned his position at Kansas, however, to
take a place as head track coach at the University of California,
where he is situated now.

Hamilton was followed by H.W. "Bill" Hargiss as track coach

at Kandas. Hargiss has coached many stars of the track world and

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