Jesse Owens ... broad jump then). At Ohio State, he was not a good student but he was easily the swiftest on the track. Two weeks before the 1935 Big Ten Championships, Owens was involved in ...

Jesse became a father in August 1932, after his junior year in high school. He later married the girl's mother, Ruth Solomon, and they had two more daughters. When Owens entered Ohio State in the ...

Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track, all of this a year after breaking three track world records and tying a fourth in the Big Ten Championships when he was a student at The Ohio State ...