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1960 Rome Summer Games
5348 Athletes, 84 Countries, 150 Events

The 1960 Summer Olympics were the Games of American Wilma Rudolph, a threetime gold medalist in track who overcame various diseases as a child. These were also the Games of Cassius Clay, who won the boxing lightheavyweight gold medal in Rome prior to his illustrious career as Muhammad Ali. And who could forget Ethiopian Abebe Bikila? Bikila won the marathon in two hours and fifteen minutes╔barefooted.

The Ivies present in Rome were able to witness these feats and perform some of their own.

Rower Richard Wailes (Yale '58) followed up his gold in 1956 as a member of the Yale varsity eight with a gold medal in the fourman race. Fellow Eli Jeffrey Farrell '63 won two swimming gold medals in Rome both with American relay teams. He had intended to compete in more events, but the 1960 trials were only six days after Farrell underwent an appendectomy. He did, however, anchor both relay teams and lead both to world records. A future Crimson swimmer, sixteenyearold Neville Hayes '67 won silver in the 200meter butterfly for his native Australia.

Sixtime Olympians Frank D. Chapot (Penn '55) and William Steinkraus (Yale '48) were both on the United States equestrian jumping team that finished with a silver medal. Chapot and Steinkraus have been actively involved in equestrian since leaving the sport and both have been awarded the USA Equestrian Lifetime Achievement Award.

Yachter George O'Day (Harvard '45) was a football player for the Crimson, but won gold in the 5.5meter boat class at Rome.

Irvin 'Bo' Roberson (Cornell '58) won silver in the long jump at Rome with a jump of 267 1/4 just a centimeter behind the firstplace finisher. He had a long career in professional football after the Olympics.