Irvin "Bo" Roberson (July 23, 1935 – April 15, 2001) was an American track and field athlete and football player. At Cornell University he excelled in basketball, football, and track and field. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy he won the silver medal in the long jump, a centimeter short of the Olympic record 8.12 m gold medal jump by Ralph Boston.
After his NFL career was over, Roberson became the first track and field coach at University of California, Irvine and later coached track at Rolling Hills High School.
Roberson is the only person to have an Ivy League degree, a Ph.D., an Olympic medal and a career in the NFL.[1]
At the time of his death, he was retired from a position as psychologist with the Los Angeles Unified School District.[2]
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