Mathias won the 1948 Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete. Because his scholastic record in high school did not match his athletic achievement, he spent a year at the Kiski School in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 3—CUMBERLAND, Md. — Paul Overbeck never got to meet his great uncle, WWII D-Day hero Lt. Robert "Bob" Mathias. But the two ...

Bob Mathias, 75, who won the decathlon in the Olympic Games as a teenager and then went on to win it a second time and to represent a California district in Congress, died Sept. 2 at his home in ...

Until young Bob Mathias (rhymes with defy us) came along, the folks in Tulare, Calif, (pop. 12,000) never had much to shout about.* When Bob became Olympic decathlon champ at 17, they let off a roar ...

Bob Mathias, 75, who as a two-time champion in the Olympic decathlon was one of the greatest all-around American athletes and who also served eight years in Congress, died of cancer Sept. 2 at his ...

Bob Mathias, Tulare, Calif., high school boy, makes mighty discus toss in Wembley England Stadium August 6, 1948 to take lead in the Decathlon in the London Summer Olympics. Mathias, 17, hurled the ...

Tulare Union sophomore Demaje Riley is the Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register’s Bob Mathias Award Winner as Tulare County's most outstanding football player for the 2024-25 school year. Only ...

Tulare Union junior receiver/cornerback Demaje Riley is the Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register’s Bob Mathias Award Winner as Tulare County's most outstanding football player for the 2025-26 ...