Graduated from Lamoni High School in 1933 and from Sacramento Junior College, Sacramento, California in 1935. He was a two year letter winner in track and football in college. He received Honorable Mention by the Des Moines Register for High School Honor Role in Football in 1933. He single handedly placed his team to the second place finish in the State Track and Field meet by scoring 18 points. He placed 2nd behind Jesse Owens in the Long Jump at the National Interscholastic Track and Field meet at Soldier’s Field in Chicago his junior year with a leap of 23’1.25″. In 1936 he qualified for the Olympics in Berlin as a member of the Decathlon. At the Berlin Games he won the Bonze Medal, this completed the American’s sweep of the event. Roger died in May of 1964.
