Considered the best athlete to ever come out of North Carolina at the time
Nationally, he was ranked No. 3 in the shot put and No. 7 in the discus in 1940 (the only athlete from North Carolina ranked in the top 10 nationally that year in any event)
Only person in state meet history to sweep the shot put and discus 3 straight years (1938-1940)
Only person to sweep the shot put, discus and javelin in the same year
Set state meet record 3 straight years in shot put and 2 straight years in discus

7-time state champion
      3 shot put (1938, 1939, 1940)
      3 discus (1938, 1939, 1940)
      1 javelin (1940)
At 22nd C-Club Track & Field Invitational, Washington D.C. (considered the No. 1
high school meet on the East Coast), he:
     Won 2 titles (shot put & discus, 1940, setting a meet record in the shot put)
At Duke Invitational, not only the best meet in the state, but one of the best in the
South at the time, drawing teams from NC, SC, VA, GA, KY, PA, FL, he:
     Swept all 3 (shot, discus, javelin) in 1940 (the precursor to the Duke-Durham Relays)
     Leading individual scorer in 1939 and 1940
     Won 6 titles (2 in the shot, 1939, 1940; 3 in the discus, 1938, 1939, 1940; 1 in the                 javelin, 1940)
     Set 3 meet records (twice in the discus, 1938, 1940; once in the shot, 1940)
At Greensboro’s Civitan Relays, which drew teams from all over North Carolina and some from Virginia, he:
     Won 5 titles (3 in shot, 1938, 1939, 1940; 2 in discus, 1938, 1939; 1 in javelin, 1940)
     Set meet records twice in the shot, 1939, 1940; and twice in discus, 1938, 1939)
All-State in basketball, football and track

COLLEGE:
3-sport star at Duke University (track, basketball and football)
Inducted into 2 Hall of Fames:
     North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, 1978
     Duke University’s Sports Hall of Fame, 1981
Won Southern Conference track titles in the shot (1942, 1943) and discus (1943); the Southern Conference existed prior to the ACC and teams left the Southern Conference to form the ACC
All-American in football (1942), played in 1942 Rose Bowl; all-Southern Conference in football (1941 & 1942); All-Southern Conference in basketball (1943); All-Southern Conference in track (1942 & 1943)
Held 5 school football records for more than 40 years
Selected by sports editors from North and South Carolina as the 1942 Teague Memorial Award recipient, recognizing him as the most outstanding athlete in the Carolinas
Featured in “Look Magazine” as the best athlete in the South Durham’s “Most Outstanding Young Male of 1943” by the Junior Chamber of Commerce

POST-COLLEGIATE:
Played pro basketball for the Washington Capitals (1946, 1947) in the ABA, which later merged with the NBA.
World War II veteran, Navy