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Article: Brown, member of United States Olympic team in 1936, dies at 84
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- December 30, 2002
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Dateline: BATON ROUGE, Louisiana
W.T. "Billy" Brown, a member of the 1936 United States Olympic team
that went to Berlin, died of congestive heart failure. He was 84.
Brown died Sunday at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center
in Baton Rouge, where he had been hospitalized for about a week, said
Dan Borne, president of the Louisiana Chemical Association.
Brown was 17 when he finished 17th in the hop, step, and jump, now
known as the triple jump, at the Berlin Olympics.
At Louisiana State University, Brown set three Southeastern Conference
records and won seven SEC titles ...