caption event death_date death_place club birth_place weight height pb sport birth_date image article_title alma_mater
robert legendre in 1919 pentathlon , decathlon , long jump january 21 , 1931 -lrb- aged 33 -rrb- brooklyn , new york , united states polytechnic harriers , london lewiston , maine , united states 88 kg lb on 1.90 m ftin on decathlon m -lrb- 1924 -rrb- 200 m -- 22.4 -lrb- 1919 -- -rrb- 6576 -lrb- 1920 -rrb- lj -- 7.76 athletics january 7 , 1898 robert legendre 1919.jpg robert legendre
 georgetown university
robert legendre

robert `` bob '' lucien legendre -lrb- january 7 , 1898 -- january 21 , 1931 -rrb- was an american track and field athlete .
he competed in the pentathlon at the 1920 and 1924 summer olympics and finished in fourth and third place , respectively .
he failed to qualify for the 1924 olympics in the long jump , yet at the 1924 olympic pentathlon competition he set a world record in that event at .
he won the pentathlon at the inter-allied games in 1919 , beating eugene vidal and géo andré .
while studying at the georgetown university , legendre also played american football and baseball .
he earned ph.d. and d.d.s. degrees there and signed a hollywood contract as a film actor .
he abandoned the movie career and became a dentist in washington .
