Fred Newhouse

Olympic medal recordhe friggin cool
Men's track and field
Gold	1976 Montreal	4x400 m relay
Silver	1976 Montreal	400 meters

Frederick Vaughn ("Fred") Newhouse (born 8 November 1948) was an American competitor at the 1976 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the men's 4x400 meter relay with Herman Frazier, Benny Brown, and Maxie Parks and silver in the 400 m. He finished second in the Olympic final with a time of 44.40. The final was won by Cuba's Alberto Juantorena, a.k.a. El Caballo (The Horse).

Newhouse was one of the organizers of the Northwest Flyers Track Club in Houston, Texas.^[1] He graduated high school at Galilee High School in Hallsville, Texas.^[2] After graduating Prairie View A&M with a degree in Electrical Engineering, he received his Masters in International Business. He now is Director of Public Affairs for Valero Energy and serves as the Assistant Treasurer of the Prairie View A&M Foundation.^[3]

References

^ http://www.northwestflyers.org/home.html Northwest Flyers
^ http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth17763/
^ http://pvamf.org/index.php/aboutus/board_member/fred_newhouse_assistant_treasurer/ Prairie View A&M Bio

IAAF profile for Fred Newhouse

Sports Reference

New York Times

Olympic Champions in Men's 4×400 m relay

1908: United States (Hamilton, Cartmell, Taylor, Sheppard)
1912: United States (Sheppard, Lindberg, Meredith, Reidpath)
1920: Great Britain (Griffiths, Lindsay, Ainsworth-Davies, Butler)
1924: United States (Cochran, Helffrich, MacDonald, Stevenson)
1928: United States (Baird, Spencer, Alderman, Barbuti)
1932: United States (Fuqua, Ablowich, Warner, Carr)
1936: Great Britain (Wolff, Rampling, Roberts, Brown)
1948: United States (Harnden, Bourland, Cochran, Whitfield)
1952: Jamaica (Wint, Laing, McKenley, Rhoden)
1956: United States (Jenkins, Jones, Mashburn, Courtney)
1960: United States (Yerman, Young, G. Davis, O. Davis)
1964: United States (Cassell, Larrabee, Williams, Carr)
1968: United States (Matthews, Freeman, James, Evans)
1972: Kenya (Asati, Nyamau, Ouko, Sang)
1976: United States (Frazier, Brown, Newhouse, Parks)
1980: Soviet Union (Valiulis, Linge, Chernetskiy, Markin)
1984: United States (Nix, Armstead, Babers, McKay)
1988: United States (Everett, Lewis, Robinzine, Reynolds, McKay, Valmon)
1992: United States (Valmon, Watts, Johnson, Lewis, Hall, Jenkins)
1996: United States (Smith, Harrison, Mills, Maybank, Rouser)
2000: Vacant
2004: United States (Harris, Brew, Wariner, Williamson, Rock, Willie)
2008: United States (Merritt, Taylor, Neville, Wariner, Clement, Witherspoon)

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Name	Newhouse, Fred
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Short description	Athletics (sport) competitor
Date of birth	8 November 1948
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