HARRY HILLMAN HURDLES-COACH (Inducted 1976)

Born August 9, 1881, Brooklyn, N.Y. Died August 9, 1945

A member of three Olympic teams at the turn of the century, Harry Hillman also was an outstanding coach at Dartmouth College.

Hillman won three gold medals at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, taking the flat 400, the 200 low hurdles and the 400 hurdles. At the unofficial 1906 Games, he was fourth in the flat 400 and was a silver medalist at the 1908 Games in the 400 hurdles. He won four AAU titles, two each in the 200 and 400 hurdles, and after his competitive days moved into coaching at Dartmouth, staying there 35 years until his death in 1945. Hillman was an Olympic coach in 1924, 1928 and 1932 and one of his most famous athletes was hurdler Earl Thomson, also a Hall of Fame member.