Milton G. Green (October 31, 1913 – March 30, 2005) was an American track and field athlete who was a world record holder in high hurdles during the 1930s.
[3] On March 17, 1934, Green tied the world record for 60-Meter high hurdles of 7.4 seconds at the Knights of Columbus Games at Madison Square Garden.
[4] On October 5, 1934, he won the 100-meter dash and 110-meter high hurdle, and broad jump events at a meet pitting American and Italian athletes at Harvard Stadium.
[5] At the 1935 William C. Prout Memorial Games, Green tied a world record by finishing the 45-yard high hurdles in 5.8 seconds.
[6] At the 1935 triangular track games between Harvard, Cornell, and Dartmouth College at the Boston Garden, he broke the meet record in the 45-Yard Hight Hurdles.
Green won three events (50-yard dash, running broad jump, and 45-yard high hurdles) at the inaugural quadrangular meet.
[9] He won the 50-meter hurdles at the 1936 IC4A indoor championship at Madison Square Garden, but Harvard finished the standings behind Manhattan College and Yale.
[10] That same month, he competed in the annual track meet at the Maple Leaf Gardens, but lost in the broad jump to Canadian Sam Richardson.
[17] He and his Harvard teammate Norman Cahners chose to protest the event being held in Nazi Germany on the advice of Rabbi Harry Levy of Temple Israel in Boston.