When the average Marquette fan thinks about the university’s best athletes, basketball is inevitably the first thing to come to mind .
Not enough people know the name of Marquette’s most impressive athlete: Ralph Metcalfe.
Metcalfe, a sprinter that took a track scholarship to Marquette in 1930, was ahead of his time. He ran the 100-meter sprint in just 10.38 seconds in 1931 per the Marquette record books, a school record still standing 87 years later. It’s the oldest active individual record in program history by a considerable margin.
The odds of a track record lasting that long are infinitesimal.