H. Ross Hume

Henry Ross Hume was a threetime NCAA champion distance runner who was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1990. He and his twin brother, Robert H. Hume, became famous in 1944 and 1945 as the dead heat twins due to their practice of finishing their races handinhand in an intentional effort to finish each race tied for the win. During the 1944 track season, the Hume twins tied for the win in nine straight mile races, including the Big Ten Conference and NCAA championships. They were cowinners in every mile event they entered in 1944 except one. The exception occurred at a dual meet in which a meticulous official ruled that one of the Humes beat the other across the finish line by a couple of inches although they were hand in hand at the wire. Their best time in a dead heat mile with hands clasped was 414.6 at the Central Collegiate Conference meet in 1944 the time broke a school record of 416.4 that had been set by H.L. Carrollyears earlier in 1916.

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