Old press release that I noticed the other day ... this guy had quiet
a career and quit a life....

BOULDER—The University of Colorado is mourning one of its first great
athletic performers and overall ambassadors with the death of Gil
Cruter last week.

Cruter, a member of the second class inducted into CU's Athletic Hall
of Fame in 1999, passed away in a Denver nursing home at the age of
90.

One of the first two African-American varsity student-athletes in
Colorado history, he enjoyed a storied collegiate career and then
became one of the first international ambassadors of all sports in
working as a diplomat for the U.S. State Department.

Cruter accomplished what a precious few can ever say; he set a world
record. And he did it twice. In 1936, as a member of the CU track
team, he cleared 6-feet, 8¾-inches in the high jump to set the record
that lasted less than a month. He then reclaimed the record with a 6-
foot, 10-inch effort in Salt Lake City two years later.