Milton Gray Campbell was an American decathlete of the 1950s.
26 Facts About Milt Campbell
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Milt Campbell then enrolled at the Indiana University, where he played football and ran track.
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Milt Campbell attended Plainfield High School where he participated in track and field, played football, and swam at a time where it was a widely accepted idea in the sports world that African-Americans were unable to properly swim.
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Milt Campbell set New Jersey state records in the high and low hurdles and in the high jump, and scored 140 points as fullback in football.
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Milt Campbell was inducted into the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Milt Campbell was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1952.
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Milt Campbell's coach instructed him that in order to do so, he would have to win the Olympic decathlon.
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Milt Campbell, having never heard of the decathlon, had to look it up to gain more information.
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Milt Campbell wanted to represent the United States in the upcoming 1952 Olympic Games which were to be held in Helsinki.
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Milt Campbell initially wanted to qualify for the hurdles event, but when the day came he placed fourth, with only the top three qualifying.
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However, Milt Campbell himself was disappointed, having wanted to win, and knew that he needed to practice harder and longer over the next four years in order to excel at and win the 1956 Olympics, which were to be held in Melbourne.
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An all around athlete, Milt Campbell was drafted by the NFL Cleveland Browns in 1957 and played one season in the same backfield as Jim Brown.
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Milt Campbell was released from the Cleveland Browns by owner Paul Brown for marrying a white woman.
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Milt Campbell then played for several years in the Canadian Football League, ending his football career in 1964.
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Milt Campbell rushed seven times for 23 total yards in the halfback position and played alongside MVP and Rookie of the Year running back Jim Brown.
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Milt Campbell received a letter the next day telling him that his services were no longer needed by the Browns.
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Still wanting to pursue a career in football, Campbell went to Canada, where he joined the Canadian Football League, playing with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, Montreal Alouettes and Toronto Argonauts until his retirement in 1964.
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Milt Campbell started Judo and quickly progressed through the ranks under Yoshishada Yoneska.
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Yoshishada stated that Milt Campbell had a strong chance to make the 1972 Olympic team.
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The reason was that Milt Campbell had competed as a professional football player.
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Milt Campbell was troubled as professional track runners were allowed to compete in the Olympics, but he could not because he played football.
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Milt Campbell deserves to be high up on both of those lists, but in fact was not included or even mentioned on either list.
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Milt Campbell was inducted into the Indiana University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1982, and United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 1992.
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In June 2012, Milt Campbell was voted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
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Milt Campbell is present in the National Track and Field Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and remains the only individual to hold a spot in both of these Halls.
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Milt Campbell is interred at Memorial Park Cemetery and Mausoleum - North in Gainesville.