But even accepting that premise, the rise of Bob Mathias almost defies belief. Bob Mathias competed in the Rose Bowl and in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 3—CUMBERLAND, Md. — Paul Overbeck never got to meet his great uncle, WWII D-Day hero Lt. Robert "Bob" Mathias. But the two ...

Bob Mathias, a two-time Olympic decathlon champion and Stanford football standout who became a four-term Republican congressman from the Central Valley, died Saturday in his Fresno home. He was 75.

Bob Mathias, 75, who won the decathlon in the Olympic Games as a teenager and then went on to win it a second time and to represent a California district in Congress, died Sept. 2 at his home in ...

Bob Mathias, 75, who as a two-time champion in the Olympic decathlon was one of the greatest all-around American athletes and who also served eight years in Congress, died of cancer Sept. 2 at his ...

Bob Mathias, Tulare, Calif., high school boy, makes mighty discus toss in Wembley England Stadium August 6, 1948 to take lead in the Decathlon in the London Summer Olympics. Mathias, 17, hurled the ...