Gene Rabbit won the National AAU Championship on the Side Horse this same year.
Florida State University student Jack Miles, class of 1955, was a versatile athlete on the men's gymnastics teams that won five NCAA and AAU championships in the 1950s. In 1955, Miles represented the United States in the Pam Am games and one year later was a member of the U.S. Olympic team. These photographs were loaned to Heritage Protocol for digitization and make up the Jack Miles Collection, circa 1950-1955 (Accession No. HP-2008-021).