Track and field
b. Nov. 1, 1912, Detroit, MI
Not many runners beat Glenn Cunningham during his best years. Bonthron beat him in two championship races in one year, 1934, and went on to win the Sullivan award as America's outstanding amateur athlete.
Running for Princeton, Bonthron showed a great finishing sprint to edge Cunningham in the 1934 NCAA mile run. At the AAU national championships in Milwaukee on June 30, 1934, Bonthron did it again, this time in the 1,00-meter run, and he set a world record of 3:34.8 in the process. He also won the IC4A outdoor 880-yard run and mile run in both 1933 and 1934 and the IC4A indoor mile in 1934.
Bonthron was involved in a historic mile run in 1933, when he ran a 4:08.7 for the mile, under the world record of 4:09.2. Unfortunately, he finished second to Jack Lovelock of New Zealand, whose 4:07.6 became the new world record.
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