Mike Burton (born 18 December1945) is a former English rugby union footballer who played prop forward for Gloucester R.F.C. and England national rugby union team. December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Gloucester RFC is an English rugby union team which plays in the Zurich Premiership. ... England Rugby is the name of the English national rugby union team. ...
After rugby he became involved in the corporate hospitality business.
Burton, who now lives in Ankeny and is the coach of the Des Moines Aquatics Club that was started in 1980, never will forget that frightful day, the one that took him off the basketball court and football field and into the pool.
Burton was taken by ambulance to a hospital, suffering from severed tendons under his kneecap and a dislocated hip.
Burton focused all of his attention on swimming and did well enough to be invited to the 1964 Olympic trials as a 17-year-old.
Burton realized he was in "a very, very precarious situation." But, when the bus headed north a few blocks, Burton got out and moved closer to the site.
Burton learned there was a temporary command and control center at police headquarters, five minutes from the site and headed that way.
And, Burton says, it was a "destruction" process — one fraught with innumerable environmental and structural hazards with "zero time" for planning.
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