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Fridav, March 11, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
KU track star during 1930s, Glenn Cunningham, 78, dies
The Associated Press
CONWAY, Ark. — Glenn Cunningham, who overcame a life-threatening injury as a child to become one of the world's greatest middle distance runners, died of an apparent heart attack yesterday. He was 78.
Mr. Cunningham starred at the University of Kansas from 1934 to 1938, twice winning the mile run in the NCAA outdoor track championship. He was an original inductee into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1974.
Mr. Cunningham and former Jayhawk track star Wes Santee are honored each year at the Kansas Relays with the running of the Glenn Cunningham-Wes Santee 1,500-meter run.
The Conway County Coroner Robert Mitchell said Mr. Cunningham was found dead in his pickup truck near his farm for exotic animals at Menelee, Ark. He apparently had
been feeding the animals at the time of his death.
Mr. Cunningham, who won a silver medal in the 1,500 meters in the 1936 Olympics, was a five-time U.S. champion in the 1,500 meters and one of the first great indoor runners. He set numerous world records in the '30s, highlighted by a 4-minute, 6-7 second outdoor mile in 1938 at Princeton, N.J.
In his day, he was the best, winning the Sullivan Award as America's top amateur athlete in 1933 and winning the Wanamaker Mile at New York's Milrose Games six times, more than anyone else in history until Eannom Coghlan of Ireland won the event for the seventh time in 1987. Between 1933 and 1939, Mr. Cunningham lost only in 1936, the year he won his Olympic silver medal.
In 1979, he was named the best athlete in the 100-year history of Madison Square Garden, and he was brought back to run a leg in $P
commemorative event at the Milrose Games there last month.
But Mr. Cunningham's boyhood hardly prepared him for those glories.
At the age of seven, he was burned in an explosion and fire at the small school he attended in Elkhart. A brother was killed in the explosion. Glenn was burned so badly that his life was in danger and it was thought he would never walk again.
Moreover, as he recalled several years ago, his family was opposed to sports.
"The first track meet I saw was the first one I ran in, and the first football and basketball games I saw were the ones I played in," he said. "Up until I ran my last race, my family thought I was foolish."
Mr. Cunningham was a good high school miler, but he became a star only after he entered Kansas.
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