You are probably reading a lot lately about Bruce Jenner. In all the hullabaloo over his interview with Diane Sawyer, set to be broadcast on Friday on ABC, it is often nearly forgotten that Jenner was once an athlete. Indeed, by acclamation he was the world’s greatest athlete, a title often applied to decathlon champions.
He was also an actor, although it is unlikely you will find anyone who would have called him the world’s greatest. Instead, he joined a long list of American decathlon champions who had brief, and profoundly undistinguished, acting careers.
Jenner went to Graceland, a small college in Iowa, where he switched from football to track.