Richard John EMBERGER

Dick Emberger competed for Rice, Roanoke College, the US Marine Corps, and the Athens TC. In 1963 he won the Southern Pacific AAU title, and finished second at the AAU Meet. Emberger won the 1964 Final Olympic Trials, and then placed 10th in Tokyo.

Emberger was an extremely versatile athlete. He was a top hurdler and even ran cross-country at Roanoke College, once placing third in the Mason-Dixon Conference Championship. He was also on the swim team all four years at Roanoke. He was inducted into the Roanoke College Hall of Fame in 1971.

After Tokyo Emberger stepped away from the decathlon, but returned in 1968 in an attempt to make another Olympic team. He was fifth that year at the Mount Sac Relays, third in the AAU Meet, but his fifth place at the Olympic Trials left him off the team.

Personal Bests: 120yH – 14.0 (1963); HJ – 2.00 (6-7) (1963); Dec – 7578 (1964).