Robert L. Cross Track and Field Athlete

Robert L. Cross

Track and Field Athlete

Robert L. Cross, a native Alexandrian, attended Father Flanagan’s Boys Town School for Boys in Omaha, Nebraska, and in 1958, he set the Nebraska State High School record in the quarter mile run.  The time of 48.4 seconds was the second fastest high school time in the country, and his state record would not be broken for the next 20 years. Robert was inducted into the Boys Town Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame on May 5, 2011.