 His record time, set on a cinder track in 1961 as a high school junior at Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California was hand timed at 20.2 and equaled the world record for the imperially measured distance.Later in his high school career, he also set the record for the 100-yard dash at 9.4, just .2 off the world record in that event.He was also spectacular on the football field for the school.