Forrest Towns

Forrest Towns. Self: Olympic Cavalcade. Forrest Grady "Spec" Towns was born on February 6, 1914 in Fitzgerald, Georgia. Towns grew up in Augusta, Georgia and played football as a high school student at Richmond Academy. Following graduation from Richmond Academy in 1933, Forrest went on to attend the University of Georgia on a track scholarship and took up hurdling under the expert tutelage of esteemed Hall of Fame coach Weems...