It was a time when you and your family sat around the radio listening to the news and stories of the world. The big screen was all the excitement, the newness, the life of the party, and if you had something worth seeing, it was played on the big screen.…
Don Bragg and Theresa, the girl he would marry, were a couple of small-town high-school kids back in Penns Grove, N.J. in the 1940s. On Saturday nights, they would sit together in the dark at the Broad Theater or the Graves Theater, and they never missed a show when a…
Don Bragg, who was denied his dream of playing Tarzan in the movies but parlayed his imposing physique into a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1960 Rome Olympics, died on Saturday at his home in Oakley, Calif., near San Francisco. He was 83. His wife, Theresa Bragg,…
Don Bragg, a one-time star athlete at Penns Grove High and Villanova who won a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, died Saturday night at age 83. Nicknamed “Tarzan,” Mr. Bragg, a free spirit who became an author, actor, and poet, lived in northern…
1960 – Don Bragg 4.70 – Pole Vault – Rome Olympics FROM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoImtPY7bG0
There’s one person in Clayton who knows what those athletes were going through Aug. 1 in their Olympic finals.In fact, local resident Don Bragg can even top Ipsen and Kohler, as 52 years ago next Friday on Sept 7, 1960, Don Bragg won the Olympic gold medal in the pole…
Don Bragg was the last of the great pre-fiberglass pole vaulters. He won the 1960 Final Trials with a new world record of 15-9¼ (4.80) and this remains a world “best” with a metal pole. Bragg had won the 1959 Pan American Games, the 1959 AAU outdoor and, after sharing…
