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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 3886860, member: 10435"] I was attending nearby St. Benedict's Prep when he broke the 4 minute mile while in high school at Essex Catholic in Newark. It was a cataclysmic event. He had a great collegiate career and was NCAA champ in the mile in 1969 and 1971. It was always him against Jim Ryun. I knew he was the youngest runner ever to compete in the Olympic 1500 meter finals in 1968 but I didn't know he had a stress fracture and still finished 12th. In 1975 he ran the mile in 3:52.2 but lost the race to a new world record of 3:51. [/QUOTE]