Clarence Childs

Biography

He was born on July 24, 1883, in Wooster, Ohio. He became Captain of the Yale track team before he competed for the United States in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden in the hammer throw, where he won the bronze medal. Childs was the football coach at Indiana University and served in France during World War I. Childs was appointed by President Warren Harding to a position within the U.S. Treasury Department but was fired when he attacked a United States Secret Service agent, who was following him on suspicion that Childs had illegally removed sensitive documents. He died in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 1960.