"Glenn Edgar Morris" was a United States of America/U.S. track and field Athletics (sport)/athlete. He won a gold medal in the Olympic decathlon in 1936 Summer Olympics/1936, setting new world and Olympic records.

Morris was born on his family's homestead farm near Simla, Colorado, the second of seven children. A natural athlete whose record in the 220 hurdles stood for forty years at his high school, Morris entered Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University) in 1930. He became a star athlete for the school, excelling in several sports and being named All American in track and field. Working as an assistant coach and automobile salesman after graduation in 1934 (with degrees in Economics and Sociology), Morris began training as a decathlon athlete in hopes of competing in the 1936 Olympics.

In the U.S. Olympic track and field trials for 1936, Morris scored a new world record of 7,880 points, earning him Newsweek's sobriquet "the nation's new Iron Man." Morris broke his own world record, and the Olympic record, in the 1936 Summer Olympics/Berlin games, with a decathlon score of 7,900 points. It was said that Adolf Hitler never left his seat while Morris was competing, and that the Germany/Germans thereafter offered Morris $50,000 to stay in Germany and appear in sports films, an offer Morris refused.

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