sentences:  He was a standout athlete for Stanford University when he became a member of the American rugby union team which won the gold medal in Paris at the very start of the 1924 Summer Olympics.Known as 'Peabody' by his teammates, because that was what he called everyone else, he stayed on in France after the rugby concluded in order to attend the rest of the games.After graduating from Stanford with a degree in mining engineering, Cleaveland began a long and respected career specializing in dredge operations.