John Howard (Canadian sprinter)

John Armstrong "Army" Howard (October 6, 1888 – January 9, 1937[1]) was a Canadian track and field athlete.

In the Olympics in Stockholm, he was hindered by a stomach ailment[1] and stress resulting from discord with coach Knox.

[7] He competed in the 1919 Inter-Allied Games held in Paris where he won the bronze medal in the 100 metres race.

[8] He returned to Canada about two years after going to Europe with a white English wife, Edith (née Lipscomb).

Rose du Lac, north of Winnipeg, but were forced to leave by hostility to the interracial marriage.

A black-and-white photograph of a man surrounded by military people and receiving a medal from an older military man
John Howard receiving his bronze medal for the 100 metres event of the Inter-Allied Games from Nicholas I of Montenegro