Evelyn Montague

Contrary to the film, he attended Oxford, not Cambridge, and went by the name Evelyn (EEV-lin) rather than Aubrey.

[2] A runner from youth, in 1918 Montague won the mile and the steeplechase at the London AC Schools meeting.

He was captain of Oxford's Varsity Cross Country Club,[3] and won the cross-country race against Cambridge (1919–20), and the 3 miles (1920–21).

In 1920, Montague was a founding member of the Achilles Club, the joint Oxford–Cambridge track and field organisation.

At the Games, he placed sixth in the 3000 metre steeplechase, as shown in the film Chariots of Fire, with a time of 9.58.0, coming in 0.4 second after the fifth-place runner.

Montague was the joint organiser — together with javelin champion, Olympic coach and author F. A. M. Webster — of the first AAA Summer Schools at Loughborough.

He had written daily letters to his mother describing his years at Oxford, his athletic training, and the Olympic competition.