Barney Berlinger

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Bernard Ernst "Barney" Berlinger (born March 13, 1908 in Philadelphia , † December 2, 2002 in Carversville , Pennsylvania ) was the American decathlon champion . He took part in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam and in 1931 won the James E. Sullivan Award as the best amateur athlete in the USA.

Life

Berlinger was versatile. He attended the William Penn Charter School and then the Mercersburg Academy . In addition to athletics , he was also successful in football , basketball , wrestling , boxing, and baseball . Only as a student at the University of Pennsylvania under coach Lawson Robertson , he specialized in the decathlon, took part in the Olympic Games, where he was only 17th. In 1930 he became the American champion in non-Olympic pentathlon athletics. In 1931 he won the James E. Sullivan Award for the best amateur athlete in the USA. In 1932, as a graduate in economics, he began a professional career with the family business Quaker City Gear Works , as he was no longer able to afford a natural sport like many due to the global economic crisis and the rigid amateur regulations. In 1933 he won the American championship in the decathlon. After World War II , he trained military sports instructors in Europe for the US Army. He developed several patents, e.g. B. a brake for the reel on the fish rod in 1940. In 1996 Berlinger was inducted into the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame as one of the first.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scion of Berks Family to Compete in Olympic Games at Amsterdam. Reading Eagle, July 28, 1928, accessed November 12, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Barney Berlinger Bio, Stats and Results. Sports Reference LLC, accessed April 12, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Germany and the Olympic Movement (1918-1945), in: Horst Ueberhorst (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Leibesübungen , Vol. 3/2, Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz, 1982, 1026-1047.
  4. ↑ Here Are The Best Of The Ivies. Sports Illustrated , November 30, 1959; Retrieved April 12, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Patent number US 2454590 A, Patented Nov. 23, 1948. UNITED STATES PATENT, accessed November 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ 'Inaugural class - Inducted April 13, 1996'. (No longer available online.) Penn Athletics Hall of Fame, archived from the original on November 15, 2016 ; accessed on November 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Berlinger, Barney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berlinger, Bernard Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American decathlon champion
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 2002
Place of death Carversville , Pennsylvania