Eulace Peacock

Competing for the Temple Owls track and field program, he set school records in the long jump and sprints that lasted over 50 years.

[4] Peacock won the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) outdoor pentathlon championship six times, in 1934, 1935, 1937, and from 1943 through 1945.

In 1942 he served in the United States Coast Guard; in later years he opened a liquor store and a car-rental business.

He has been honored by a number of athletic bodies, including the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.

Peacock died of Alzheimer's disease at age 82 in Yonkers, New York and was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, NY.