Six Nations Onondaga marathon runner Tom Longboat wins the 11^th Boston marathon in a record time of 2:24:24. In 1909 he wins the title of Professional Champion of the World. 

Prior to the Great War, Tom Longboat was arguably one of the most famous athletes in the world at the time. He served as a Sapper in the 107^th Pioneer Battalion as a Dispatch Runner on the Western Front. He was wounded twice and once was wrongly reported killed. He would survive the war. 

After the war, he lived and worked in Toronto until 1944, when he retired to the Six Nations reserve near Brantford. He died in 1949.