James Austin Menaul (March 26, 1888 – October 17, 1975) was an American athlete who came fifth in the 1912 Olympic pentathlon.
[3] Coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, Menaul represented the Chicago Maroons in track and field and college football (1909 and 1910).
[14][15] Menaul had injured his shoulder practicing for the javelin throw, a discipline not part of the Big Ten program, and by far his worst score at the Olympics.
[20] Later he worked for publishers Scott Foresman (founded by his mother's brother[2]) and then as a livestock buyer for Swift and Company.
[21] He married Della Patterson in 1922 and had four children, retiring in 1951 and moving to Menlo Park, California, where he died in 1975.