ABC #029: Meredith Colket, Bascom Johnson, Edward Bushnell, John F. Cregan, & James Juvenal - Olympiad II - Paris 1900 - The Zany Games

Future Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill residents went to Paris in 1900 to compete in Olympiad II.   

• Meredith Colket was a Penn scholar who placed 2^nd in the pole vault. 
• Bascom Johnson was a Yale pole vaulter who failed to compete, but went on to an amazing career in public health. 
• Edward Bushnell was a middle-distance runner whose name eventually became synonymous with sports at the University of Pennsylvania. 
• John F. Cregan was another middle-distance man but from Princeton. 
• Rower James Benner Juvenal won gold with the Vesper Boat Club three years after he eloped to New York City on a tandem bicycle. 

In perhaps the most disorganized Olympics ever, several of our residents excelled.  And find out why they were "The Zany Games," all in this episode of "All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories."

 

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