Choices: Commonwealth javelin champion Dave Travis

FIRST on a long list of England Schools caps from Hampton is Dave Travis, better known as double Commonwealth Games gold medal winner in the javelin.
Travis enjoyed a notable athletics career but there are those who insist his greatest claim to fame was keeping David Duckham out of the England schools team!
An 11.2 secs man for the 100m, Travis won England Schools caps in 1964 and 1965, enjoying wins over Wales at Twickenham and Cardiff Arms Park and France in Poitiers. By the autumn of 1965, he was in the Loughborough Colleges First...