A prodigious point scorer, he busied himself with competition in the high and low hurdles and broad jump. In 1935 he won the lows and broad jump against Oxford-Cambridge after helping Harvard bear Yale in New Haven for the first time in 20 years. As a captain in 1936 he broke the low hurdles record, won all three events in the Heptagonals and finished a brilliant career with victories in the high hurdles and broad jump in the IC4A.