Hurley, Marcus L.
Cycling
b. 1885, New York, NY
d. March 28, 1941
Cycling was an unofficial sport at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis. Hurley won all four races, at distances ranging from a quarter-mile to a mile.
The national amateur sprint champion four years in a row, from 1901 through 1904, he won the world championship in 1904. Hurley was the last American cyclist to win the world sprint title until 1994.
A basketball star at Columbia University, Hurley captained the team as a senior in 1907-08. He was also captain of a New York Athletic Club that won the Metropolitan championship tournament in 1905.