Glenn Edgar Morris (June 18, 1912 – January 31, 1974) was a U.S. track and field athlete. He won a gold medal in the Olympic decathlon in 1936, setting new world and Olympic records. [3]

Glenn Morris was the fourth Olympic athlete to play Tarzan. He was the 1936 decathlon champion and won the Sullivan Award (outstanding amateur athlete of the year) over the more famous …

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The 1936 AAU Sullivan Award winner, Morris later played football for the Detroit Lions of the NFL and starred in the 1938 feature film, Tarzan's Revenge. He died of congestive heart failure on …

Glenn Morris was an American track-and-field athlete and football player. He was born on June 12, 1912, and died on January 31, 1974.

One of the most highly accomplished athletes in Colorado history, Glenn E. Morris (1912–1974) was raised in the small rural town of Simla in southeastern Colorado. Morris was a standout in …

Glenn Morris continues to rank as one of the greatest athletes to ever come out of Colorado State University. A native of Simla, Colo., Morris came to CSU (then known as Colorado Agricultural …

Glenn Morris was the fourth Olympic athlete to play Tarzan. He was the 1936 decathlon champion and won the Sullivan Award (outstanding amateur athlete of the year) over the more famous …

Today, Glenn Morris is best known as a Decathlon gold medalist in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Setting several world records, Morris' performance at the Olympics broke records and earned …

This gave Morris the time and facilities to develop his talents as a decathlete and in April 1936 he broke the U.S. record in his first ever decathlon competition at the Kansas Relays.