Patton West Point Athlete

Patton was an Olympic athlete. plebe began working with a tutor and redoubled his efforts to receive adequate grades the remainder of his tenure at West Point, eventually graduating 46th in

As a young man Patton had been far more athletic than academically gifted, and in fact struggled during his first year at the U.S. Military Academy West Point. He had to repeat his first year

Gen. George S Patton, Jr. at West Point, 1904-1909 By Carlo D'Este. won the 120-yard hurdles and rounded out the most triumphant day of his athletic career at West Point as the runner-up in the 220-yard dash. 14 His feat won him a place in the cadet yearbook, the Howitzer, alongside the fifteen other wearers of the coveted letter

Of the almost 90 West Point Olympians in all sports, 25 have competed in modern pentathlon, beginning with Lieutenant George S. Patton Jr., Class of 1909. At the 1912 Stockholm competition, Patton was a colorful and popular figure. In the pistol shooting event, he argued that two of his bullets had passed through the same hole.

In 1912, barely three years out of West Point, George S. Patton attacked the pentathlon as later he would the German Army in WWII.quot Athletes run 1,000 meters, then shoot at five targets 10

With a combination of military training while at West Point, a natural ability as an accomplished horseman and swordsman, the young Lieutenant was chosen to compete in the new sport of Modern Pentathlon for the United States during the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm SE in 1912. complete athlete.quot The Olympian, George Smith Patton, finished

George PATTON - Olympics.com

George Smith Patton Jr. 11 November 1885 - 21 December 1945 was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point.

After attending school in Pasadena, Patton enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute. From there he went to the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from West Point in 1909, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. Efforts to find much about Patton's athletic career have yielded little.

George S. Patton was only a middling student at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., from which he graduated in 1909. He was, however, an excellent athlete, with a talent that served him well when he participated in the 1912 Stockholm Games as a pentathlon competitor. That Patton