10 Facts About Vaughn Blanchard

Vaughn Seavey Blanchard was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 110 m hurdles and in the exhibition baseball tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Vaughn Blanchard attended Bates College in Lewiston Maine and later became a well known physical education proponent in Michigan.

Vaughn Blanchard was born in Franklin, New Hampshire in 1889 and graduated from Pittsfield High School in Pittsfield, New Hampshire in 1908.

Vaughn Blanchard graduated from Bates College in 1912 where he was the Maine intercollegiate champion for three years and won the junior low hurdles national championship in 1911.

Vaughn Blanchard then competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the 110 meter hurdles and in the exhibition baseball tournament.

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Vaughn Blanchard studied at the YMCA Training College from 1912 to 1913.

Vaughn Blanchard worked as a French and German teacher and track coach at the Worcester Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1913 to 1915 and at New Hampshire State College in Durham in 1915.

Vaughn Blanchard then served as a track coach at Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1915 to 1919 before serving the YMCA overseas.

In 1920 Vaughn Blanchard moved to Michigan and worked at several schools in Detroit including Central and Cass High Schools.

From 1929 to 1954 Vaughn Blanchard served as director of the Detroit public schools' Health and Physical Education departments and at one point on the Board of Education in Detroit and received various national awards.