Richard Vaughn "Dick" Stebbins (born June 14, 1945) is an American former

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, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m

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at the 1964 Summer Olympics. At the

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, Richard Stebbins finished seventh in 200 m and ran the third leg in the gold medal winning American 4 × 100 m relay team, which set a new

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of 39.0. He got carried by his team to receive this gold medal. Stebbins was born and raised in

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, and later attended

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, where he played football and ran track. Following his college career, he was drafted as an end (wide receiver) by the

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in 1967. Stebbins was a social studies teacher at Mayfield Woods Middle School, in

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, from the 1991-2 school year until what appears to have been his retirement at the end of the 2010-11 school year.

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