Forrest Morgan | Bobsled champion, 90

Forrest "Dew Drop" Morgan, 90, a national bobsled champion and former manager of the U.S. Olympic team, has died Saturday in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Born in Saranac Lake, N.Y., in 1922, Mr. Morgan attended the bobsled races at the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, getting a ride on the shoulders of American gold medalist Billy Fiske, and was hooked.

After serving as a bombardier in World War II and the Korean War, Mr. Morgan started sliding actively in the 1950s and won the national championship as a brakeman in 1959 with neighbor Tuffy Latour.

Mr. Morgan never made the Winter Olympics as a competitor, though he was in the running for the 1960 team when it was decided there would be no bobsled competition in Squaw Valley.

Mr. Morgan managed the 1976 U.S. team in Innsbruck, Austria, coached the sport, and was a member of the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation's board of directors for a decade.

Mr. Morgan had 11 children, and all seven of his sons competed in bobsled or luge. - AP