Willie Banks

Inducted: 1999, athlete

Born: March 11, 1956 - Travis Air Force Base, California

Events
Triple Jump - 17.97 m

One of the greatest triple jumpers ever produced by the United States, Willie Banks had his best moment on June 16, 1985 when he set a world record of 58' 11 1/2" at the national championships in Indianapolis, Ind. That was the highlight of a career that started in Oceanside, Calif. After graduating from high school, Banks attended UCLA and was twice runner-up in the NCAA Championships. It was after college that he achieved his greatest success, setting his first American record in 1981 by jumping 56' 7 3/4" and improving that record six more times -- by more than 2 feet -- before he was through. A four-time AAU champion, Banks represented the U.S. in 18 international competitions and was a member of the 1984 and 1988 Olympic teams. He captured a silver medal as a member of the U.S. team at the 1983 World Championships and was also a member of the 1987 World Championship team. After graduating from UCLA, Banks went on to the university's law school. During this period, he became known as the "Bouncing Barrister." He popularized the triple jump by encouraging the crowd to clap as he prepared for his run-up and by engaging spectators during a meet. In 1985, Banks was the Track & Field News and U.S. Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year. He also served USATF as chair of the Athletes Advisory Committee in addition to serving as organization vice president.

Records Held
World Record: Triple Jump - 17.97 m (June 16, 1985 - )
American Record: Triple Jump - 17.27 m

Championships
1984 Olympics: Triple Jump (6th)
1988 Olympics: Triple Jump (6th)
1983 World Championships: Triple Jump (2nd)
1987 World Championships: Triple Jump
1985 National Championships: Triple Jump - 17.97 m (1st)

Education
high school: Oceanside (Calif.) High School (Oceanside, California), 1974
undergraduate: UCLA (Los Angeles, California), 1978

Occupations
Consulting

Cleve Abbott

Inducted: 1996, coach

Born: December 9, 1894 - Yankton, South Dakota
Deceased: April 16, 1995

Career Highlights

• As coach of women's track and field at Tuskegee Institute, Abbott won 14 national outdoor championships

One of the pioneer coaches of women's track and field, Cleve Abbott was head coach of the women's team at Tuskegee Institute from 1936 to 1955. During that period, his Golden Tigers won 14 national outdoor titles, including eight in a row. Tuskegee athletes won 49 indoor and outdoor individual titles. Six of his athletes were on the Olympic team, including gold medalists Alice Coachman and Mildred McDaniel. Three of his athletes -- Coachman, McDaniel and Nell Jackson -- have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. He was still coaching at Tuskegee when he died in 1955. An outstanding athlete while in high school and college, Abbott was hired to teach and coach at Tuskegee Institute in 1915 by the great educator, Booker T. Washington. He had exceptional success as Tuskegee's football coach, winning nine national titles over a 32-year period. In addition to being an outstanding coach, Abbott served on the women's committee of the former National AAU (a predecessor of USA Track & Field) and twice was on the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Committee. He is also a member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

Education
high school: Watertown (Watertown, South Dakota), 1912
undergraduate: South Dakota State (Brookings, South Dakota), 1916

Occupations
Coach / athletic director

Jesse Abrahamson

Inducted: 1981, journalist

Born: March 10, 1904 - Mountaindale, New York
Deceased: June 11, 1979

Career Highlights

• Winner of career achievement award from the New York Track Writers Association

One of the top journalists in the history of track and field, Jesse Abramson was best known for his long-time coverage of the sport for the now defunct New York Herald Tribune. Abramson covered the 1928 Olympic Games and attended every Olympics until 1976, reporting the event with a candidness and accuracy that was a model for fellow journalists. A sports reporter for 56 years, he was the founder and long-time president of the New York Track Writers Association. After his death, the association created the annual Jesse Abramson Award to the outstanding athlete of the year. In addition to his track and field writing, Abramson was also a skilled reporter in boxing and college football. He received numerous awards for his coverage of all three sports during his career. After the Herald Tribune folded in 1966, Abramson directed the U.S. Olympic Invitational indoor meet and served in that capacity until his death.

Education
high school: Stuyvesant (Stuyvesant, New York)

Occupations
Journalist

David Albritton

Inducted: 1980, athlete

Born: April 13, 1913 - Danville, Alabama
Deceased: May 14, 1994

Events
High Jump - 2.08 m

One of the first high jumpers to use the straddle technique, Dave Albritton had a long career that spanned three decades and numerous titles. He also had a number of similarities with all-time great Jesse Owens. Both were born in Danville, Ala.; both attended East Technical High School in Cleveland; both competed in the 1936 Olympic Games; and both are members of the National Track & Field Hall of Fame. As a sophomore at Ohio State, Albritton won the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship in 1936. At the Olympic Trials that year, he and Cornelius Johnson both jumped a world-record height of 6' 9 3/4" and tied at 6' 8" at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championships. At the Berlin Olympics, Albritton finished second to Johnson with a leap of 6' 6 3/4". He claimed the silver medal in a jump-off after he and two other jumpers cleared the same height. Albritton won two more NCAA titles, in 1937 and 1938; was AAU champion in 1937, 1946 and 1947, and tied for the title in 1938, 1945, and 1950; he also tied for the AAU indoor title in 1944. He later became a politician and served in the Ohio House of Representatives.

Records Held
World Record: High Jump - 2.08 m (July 12, 1936 - )

Championships
1936 Olympics: High Jump (2nd)
1936 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1937 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1938 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1944 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1945 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1946 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1947 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1950 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1937 NCAA: High Jump (1st)
1938 NCAA: High Jump (1st)

Education
high school: East Technical (Cleveland, Ohio), 1934
undergraduate: Ohio State (Columbus, Ohio), 1938

Occupations
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Roxanne Andersen (Atkins)

Inducted: 1991, athlete

Born: June 26, 1912 - Montreal, Quebec CA

Events
100 m hurdles

Career Highlights

• In 1982, she received the President's Award for meritorious service to track and field.

As Roxy Atkins, she was a top sprinter-hurdler for Canada in the 1930s, placing fourth at the 1934 British Empire Games, a forerunner of the present Commonwealth Games, and sixth at the Women's World Games. She won the 1934 U.S. indoor 50-meter hurdles title, defeating Olympic medalist and future Hall of Famer Evelyne Hall Adams. In 1936, she ran for Canada at the Olympic Games and finished second at the U.S. indoor championships. After marrying and moving to California following World War II, she became a U.S. citizen. Andersen pioneered women's and age group track and field programs and her activities were later used as a model for national programs. By the 1950s, she was active in the governance of U.S. track and field, serving continuously on the women's track and field national committee -- first for the Amateur Athletic Union, later for The Athletics Congress (TAC) -- and became co-chair of the women's track and field committee in 1958. She was a staff member for many other national teams, including the U.S. contingent to the Pan American Games in 1971 and 1983. Andersen has authored several articles on the sport, as well as a publication on the effects of athletic competition on girls and women. She received the President's Award for years of meritorious service to athletes in 1982.

Championships
1936 Olympics:
1934 British Empire Games: (4th)
1934 Women's World Games: (6th)
1934 US Indoors: 50 m hurdles (1st)
1936 US Indoors: (2nd)

Occupations
Coach
Track & field administrator

Horace Ashenfelter

Inducted: 1975, athlete

Born: January 23, 1923 - Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Events
3,000 m steeplechase - 8:45.40
2 mi. - 8:50

The only American to hold the world record in the steeplechase, Horace Ashenfelter achieved that feat at the 1952 Olympic Games, winning in 8:45.4. In that race, he overcame the challenge of the favorite, Vladimir Kazantsev of the Soviet Union, who had lowered his world record to 8:48.6 just six weeks before the Games. The victory helped Ashenfelter win the 1952 Sullivan Award, which goes annually to the nation's top amateur athlete. Nicknamed "Nip," Ashenfelter won the NCAA two-mile championship while a senior at Penn State in 1949. During his collegiate years, he began steeplechasing, applying lessons from high-school physics to develop a unique style of clearing the event's water jump. He won his first of three National AAU titles in the steeplechase in 1951. In all, he won 17 national championships at a variety of distances, from two to six miles and from the indoor 3 mile to cross country. An FBI agent during his competitive days, Ashenfelter later became a salesman. He had a brother, Bill, who also was an Olympic steeplechaser in 1952. Their brother, Don, was also a distance runner. All three Ashenfelters ran on a Penn State relay team that won the Penn Relays 4-mile title in 1949.

Records Held
World Record: 3,000 m steeplechase - 8:45.40 (July 27, 1952 - )

Championships
1952 Olympics: 3,000 m steeplechase
1956 Olympics: 3,000 m steeplechase - 8:45.40 (1st)
1951 AAU: 3,000 m steeplechase (1st)
1949 NCAA: 2 mi. (1st)

Education
high school: Collegeville (Collegeville, Pennsylvania), 1941
undergraduate: Penn State (State College, Pennsylvania), 1949

Occupations
FBI agent
Salesman

Evelyn Ashford

Inducted: 1997, athlete

Born: April 15, 1957 - Shreveport, Louisiana

Events
100 m - 10.76
200 m - 21.83

One of the greatest women's sprinters in track and field history, Evelyn Ashford ranked first in the world four times and was the top-ranked American seven times, including four in a row from 1981 to 1984. A competitor at the 1976 Olympic Games while attending UCLA, she also competed in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Games, winning four gold medals and a silver. She set an Olympic record when she ran 10.97 to win the 100m at the 1984 Games She was a two-time world record holder in the 100 meters, running 10.79 at Colorado Springs in 1983 and surpassing that record when she ran 10.76 in Zurich in 1984. Among her greatest achievements was her double victory at the 1979 World Cup when she defeated East Germany's dominant sprinters, beating Marlies Gohr in the 100m and world-record holder Marita Koch in the 200m. She repeated her double sprint victories in the 1981 World Cup. Overall, she was on 15 national teams during the period from 1976 to 1992, a very long career for a sprinter. She won 19 national titles, including six indoors.

Records Held
World Record: 100 m - 10.79
World Record: 100 m - 10.76 (August 22, 1984 - )
Olympic Record: 100 m - 10.97

Championships
1976 Olympics: 100 m (5th)
1984 Olympics: 100 m - 10.97 (1st)
1984 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1988 Olympics: 100 m (2nd)
1988 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1992 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1979 World Cup: 100 m (1st)
1979 World Cup: 200 m (1st)
1981 World Cup: 100 m (1st)
1981 World Cup: 200 m (1st)

Education
high school: Roseville (Roseville, California), 1975
undergraduate: UCLA (Los Angeles, California), 1978

Occupations
Business

Andy Bakjian

Inducted: 1986, official

Born: August 20, 1914 - Union City, New Jersey
Deceased: February 26, 1986

Career Highlights

• Each year, USATF presents the Andy Bakjian Award to an outstanding official.

Andy Bakjian began his early track experience as a high school coach in Southern California after World War II. An alternate on the U.S. wrestling team selected for the 1940 Olympic Games (which were cancelled following the outbreak of war), Bakjian was knowledgeable in several sports. He coached football, baseball and track at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles. Serving at many of the top track and field meets in Southern California, Bakjian established himself as a leading official. In 1969, he was named commissioner of track officials for the Southern Pacific Association of the former AAU. He later chaired the national officials committee for The Athletics Congress (as USATF was then known) from 1980 to 1984. In 1984, he headed the panel that selected the slate of officials for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He also served as chief referee of running events at the Games. Bakjian received many awards during his career, including a President's Award in 1981.

Occupations
Official
Coach

Weemie (Weems) Baskin

Inducted: 1982, coach

Born: July 25, 1904 - Carrolton, Georgia
Deceased: May 10, 1993

A head track coach for 33 years, most of them at the University of South Carolina, Weemie "Weems" Baskin also was an outstanding hurdler at Auburn University where he was coached by another Hall of Famer, Wilbur Hutsell. He retired from South Carolina in 1969 after 26 years of coaching, during which he compiled a record of 90 victories and 47 defeats in dual meet competition. A former president of the National Collegiate Track and Field Coaches Association, he and University of Michigan coach Don Canham helped started the NCAA indoor championships in Detroit. His coaching career began at the University of Georgia, where he helped developed high hurdles world-record holder Forrest "Spec" Towns, also a Hall of Famer. After seven years at Georgia, he coached at the University of Mississippi from 1938 to 1943. At one point in his career, he was also a sportswriter in New York. Highlights of his athletic career at Auburn University included a national collegiate hurdles title in 1927 as well as an AAU outdoor championship that same year and an AAU indoor championship in 1928.

Championships
1927 AAU: (1st)
1928 AAU: (1st)
1927 NCAA: (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Auburn (Auburn, Alabama), 1927

Occupations
Coach

James Bausch

Inducted: 1979, athlete

Born: March 29, 1906 - Marion Junction, South Dakota
Deceased: July 9, 1974

Events
Decathlon - 6735 pts.

One of the greatest athletes ever produced by the University of Kansas, Bausch starred in track, basketball and football, earning the nickname of "Jarring Jim" for his exploits as a fullback. He started his college career at Wichita State, where he competed in football, basketball and track before transferring to Kansas. As a track athlete at Kansas, Bausch threw the discus, javelin and shot, but wasn't quite good enough to win a national championship in any of these events. After becoming a multi-event competitor, he won the National AAU pentathlon in 1931 and was sixth in the decathlon. A year later, he won the AAU decathlon in his second try at the 10-event competition. At the Olympics, he made his third decathlon truly memorable, setting a world record while capturing the gold medal. He won four of the ten events, including the pole vault, where he cleared 13' 1 1/2", which would have earned him fifth place in the Olympic vault competition. His Olympic victory helped him win the 1932 Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete of the year. Bausch later played pro football, served in World War II and was an insurance salesman.

Championships
1932 Olympics: Decathlon - 6735 pts. (1st)
1931 AAU: Pentathlon (1st)
1931 AAU: Decathlon (6th)
1932 AAU: Decathlon (1st)

Education
high school: Wichita Cathedral (Wichita, Kansas), 1927
undergraduate: Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas), 1931

Occupations
Professional football player
Insurance salesman

Bob Beamon

Inducted: 1977, athlete

Born: August 29, 1946 - Jamaica, New York

Events
Long Jump - 8.90 m

On October 18, 1968, Bob Beamon made track and field history by setting a world long jump record of 29' 2 1/2" that stood for 23 years. He broke the existing world mark by almost two feet, prompting Soviet rival jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan to say, "Compared to this jump, we are as children." An outstanding jumper while at Jamaica High School, Beamon set a national high school for record for the triple jump in 1965. At the University of Texas in El Paso, he demonstrated his versatility when he won the national collegiate indoor long jump and triple jump. In 1968, he emerged as a potential Olympic champion when he won the long jump at 22 of 23 meets, including the National AAU outdoor title and the Olympic Trials. However, no one was prepared for his extraordinary jump at the Mexico City Games. The following year, Beamon repeated as National AAU champion but competed sporadically after that. An Olympic comeback attempt in 1972 fell short and he became a professional in 1973. He was elected to the Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983. With his wife, Milana Walter Beamon, he is co-author of his autobiography, The Man Who Could Fly.

Records Held
World Record: Long Jump - 8.90 m (October 18, 1968 - )

Championships
1968 Olympics: Long Jump - 8.90 m (1st)
1968 AAU: Long Jump (1st)
1968 Olympic Trials: Long Jump (1st)
1969 AAU: Long Jump (1st)

Education
high school: Jamaica (Jamaica, New York), 1968
undergraduate: UTEP (El Paso, Texas)
undergraduate: Adelphi (Garden City, New York), 1972

Occupations
Community and social worker

Percy Beard

Inducted: 1981, athlete

Born: January 26, 1908 - Hardinsburg, Kentucky
Deceased: March 27, 1990

Events
110 m hurdles - 14.20

An outstanding track and field athlete and coach, Percy Beard was a world-class hurdler with both Auburn University and the New York A.C. He set a world record of 14.2 in the 120-yard high hurdles in 1931 and tied the record in 1934. A seven-time National AAU high hurdles champion, Beard was the silver medalist at the 1932 Olympic Games, finishing second to George Sailing of the U.S. after hitting the sixth hurdle. While at Auburn, Beard's coach was Wilbur Hutsell, also a Hall of Fame enshrine. Beard later became an outstanding coach at the University of Florida from 1937 to 1964. He used his civil engineering education to become a pioneer in the development of all-weather tracks.

Records Held
World Record: 110 m hurdles - 14.20 (August 6, 1934 - )

Championships
1932 Olympics: (2nd)

Education
undergraduate: Auburn (Auburn, Alabama), 1935

Occupations
Coach

Jim Beatty

Inducted: 1990, athlete

Born: October 28, 1934 - New York, New York

Events
1,500 m - 3:39.40
1 mi. - 3:55.50
2 mi. - 8:30
5,000 m - 13:45.00

Jim Beatty is best remembered as the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier indoors with a 3:58.9 performance in February 1962 in Los Angeles, surpassing the existing record by 2.5 seconds. The performance served as a harbinger of a great year for the diminutive Beatty (5' 6", 130 lbs.) That year, he set American records in five events during a 16-day stretch, which included the 1500m (Oslo, Aug. 9), mile (Helsinki, Aug. 21), 3000m (Avranches, France, Aug. 15) and both the 3 mile and 5000m in one race (Turku, Finland, Aug. 24). Beatty became the first American to hold records simultaneously in all events from 1500 to 5000 meters. That magical year saw Beatty break a total of seven U.S. records and a world record at 2 miles. Beatty earned the 1960 Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete. Beatty's transformation from a capable but unheralded college runner to record setter began in 1959 when he moved to California to join the training group of legendary coach Mihaly Igloi. Competing for the Los Angeles Track Club, Beatty made the 1960 Olympic team but failed to advance to the 5000m final in Rome. He earned four national titles during his career, winning the mile in 1962 and earning indoor mile titles from 1961 to 1963. He was second in the 1500m in the 1963 Pan American Games. Following his running career, Beatty headed up an executive search firm. He also went into politics, serving as a state legislator in North Carolina but failing in his bid to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Records Held
World Record: 2 mi. - 8:30 (June 8, 1962 - )
American Record: 1,500 m - 3:39.40 (August 9, 1962 - )
American Record: 5,000 m - 13:45.00 (August 24, 1962 - )

Championships
1960 Olympics: 5,000 m
1961 AAU Indoors: 1 mi. (1st)
1962 AAU: 1 mi. (1st)
1962 AAU Indoors: 1 mi. (1st)
1963 AAU Indoors: 1 mi. (1st)
1963 Pan Am Games: 1,500 m (2nd)

Education
high school: Central (Charlotte, North Carolina), 1953
undergraduate: North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), 1957

Occupations
Executive recruiter
Politician

Earl Bell

Inducted: 2002, athlete

Born: August 25, 1955 - Ancon, PA

Events
Pole Vault - 5.87 m

One of the most accomplished U.S. men's pole vaulters in history, Earl Bell tied Thierry Vigneron of France for the bronze medal at the 1984 Olympic Games with a clearance of 18' 4 1/2". Bell qualified for two additional U.S. Olympic teams, placing sixth in 1976 and fourth in 1988. The gold medalist at the 1975 Pan American Games, Bell also won the silver medal at the 1987 World Indoor Championships and the bronze medal at the 1986 Goodwill Games. Bell won three U.S. Outdoor (1976, 1984, 1990) and three U.S. Indoor (1980, 1984, 1987) titles during his career. At Arkansas State University, he won three NCAA Outdoor titles (1975, 1976, 1977) and two NCAA Indoor titles (1975, 1976). Bell set the world outdoor record of 18' 7 1/4" on May 29, 1976 in Wichita, Kans., and set an American record of 19' 0 1/4" in San Jose, Calif. on June 9, 1984. He now is renowned as one of the top pole vault coaches in the country, with American record holder Jeff Hartwig, Olympians Kellie Suttle and Chad Harting, and 2001 World Indoor silver medalist Tye Harvey among the athletes training under him.

Records Held
World Record: Pole Vault - 5.67 m (May 29, 1976 - )
American Record: Pole Vault - 5.80 m (June 9, 1984 - )

Championships
1976 Olympics: Pole Vault (6th)
1984 Olympics: Pole Vault - 5.60 m (3rd)
1988 Olympics: Pole Vault (4th)
1986 Goodwill Games: Pole Vault (3rd)
1987 World Indoors: Pole Vault (2nd)
1976 US Outdoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1980 US Indoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1984 US Indoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1984 US Outdoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1987 US Indoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1990 US Outdoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1975 Pan Am Games: Pole Vault (1st)
1975 NCAA Indoor: Pole Vault (1st)
1975 NCAA Outdoor: Pole Vault (1st)
1976 NCAA Indoor: Pole Vault (1st)
1976 NCAA Outdoor: Pole Vault (1st)
1977 NCAA Outdoor: Pole Vault (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Arkansas State (Jonesboro, Arkansas), 1988

Occupations
Coach

Greg Bell

Inducted: 1988, athlete

Born: November 7, 1930 - Terre Haute, Indiana

Events
Long Jump - 8.10 m

The world's top long jumper in the 1950s, Greg Bell highlighted an outstanding track and field career by winning the long jump gold medal at the 1956 Olympic Games, jumping 25' 8 1/4" while a sophomore at Indiana University. His longest jump came in 1957 when he won the national collegiate title with a 26' 7" effort, a meet record that stood for seven years. That same year, he was voted the Most Outstanding Athlete at the Penn Relays for his victories in both the 100 yards and the long jump. Almost 10 years earlier, Bell was second in the long jump at the 1948 Indiana high school championships. His interest in track and field revived during 1950 while he was stationed in the Army near Bordeaux, France. After a few weeks' training, he won the European Armed Forces Championship in Nuremberg, Germany. Following his discharge in 1954, he enrolled at Indiana University. Throughout his college career, Bell was undefeated in the long jump, winning three NCAA championships. He won the first of three National AAU titles in 1955. Rated the world's best long jumper three times, Bell wound up with a total of 13 26-foot long jumps, the most by any long jumper in history up to that time. Bell was also second in the 1959 Pan American Games and competed in the USA-USSR dual meet that same year. He later became a dentist in Logansport, Ind., and director of dentistry at Logansport State Hospital.

Championships
1956 Olympics: Long Jump - 7.83 m (1st)
1955 AAU: Long Jump (1st)
1959 Pan Am Games: Long Jump (2nd)
1957 NCAA: Long Jump - 8.10 m (1st)

Education
high school: Garfield (Terre Haute, Indiana), 1948
undergraduate: Indiana (Bloomington, Indiana), 1961

Occupations
Dentist

Sam Bell

Inducted: 1992, coach

Born: March 7, 1928 - Columbus, Missouri

The long-time head track and field coach at Indiana University, Sam Bell developed a reputation as not only an outstanding coach but as an excellent meet director. While at Indiana from 1970 to 1998, he produced teams that won 23 men's and 4 women's Big Ten titles. On 18 occasions, Bell's teams placed in the top 10 in NCAA championships. His cross country teams won two NCAA individual titles. Individually, he coached more than 90 All-American athletes, including Olympians Bob Kennedy, Jim Spivey, Mark Deady, Sunder Nix, Terry Brahm, Robert Cannon and Albert Robinson. At the same time, he was meet director or technical director of some of the top meets in the world. He was a U.S. Olympic team assistant coach in 1976 and was the head coach of the 1979 World Cup team. After earning his M.S. in physical education from the University of Oregon in 1956, he entered the college coaching ranks two years later at Oregon State University. In 1961, his Oregon State team won the NCAA cross country title. In 1965, he became the head coach at the University of California and was there four years before moving to Indiana. Bell also has served on numerous AAU and TAC committees. As chairman for the Men's Olympic Development Festival from 1976 to 1980, he developed the festival's format for track and field.

Education
high school: Aurora (Aurora, Nebraska), 1945
undergraduate: Doane College (Crete, Nebraska), 1950

Occupations
Coach

Delores (Dee) Boeckmann

Inducted: 1976, athlete

Born: November 9, 1904 - St. Louis, Missouri
Deceased: April 25, 1989

Events
50 m - 6.10
800 yd. - 2:31.00

A pioneer in U.S. women's track and field, Delores "Dee" Boeckmann was on the first women's Olympic team in 1928, running in the 800 meters in Amsterdam but failing to reach the finals. During the 1920s, she held numerous track records from the 50-yard dash to the mile. She was also the first U.S. Olympic women's coach, taking the team to the 1936 Games in Berlin. Boeckmann was the first woman to chair a national Olympic committee when she assumed this responsibility for track and field and the first woman national chair of the AAU track team. In 1950, at the urging of General Douglas McArthur, she became track and field coach of the Japanese women's track and field team, making her the first American woman to coach a foreign national team. Boeckmann also was a pioneer for women's participation in other sports, particularly basketball. A teacher and government worker, she was with the Red Cross in China during World War II.

Records Held
World Record: 50 m - 6.10

Championships
1928 Olympics: 800 m

Education
high school: Pacific (St. Louis, Missouri)

Occupations
Coach
Teacher
Government worker

John Borican

Inducted: 2000, athlete

Born: April 4, 1913 - Bridgeton, New Jersey
Deceased: January 4, 1943

Events
800 m - 1:51.00
1,000 yd. - 2:10.50
1,000 m - 2:24.30

An excellent all-around athlete, John Borican demonstrated his versatility by winning national titles in the pentathlon (1938 and 1939), the decathlon (1941) and the 800 meters (1941 and 1942). He also was a good 400m hurdler and placed second in that event at the 1938 USA-Germany dual meet. [Need to confirm - date sounds wrong.] It was indoors, however, where Borican posted his most impressive achievements. His best season was 1939, when he won 11 of 15 races and set world indoor bests in the 800 meters, 880 yards and 1000 yards. He also set a world indoor best at three quarters of a mile in 1940. Overall, he won four straight national indoor titles at 1000 yards or 1000 meters from 1939 to 1942. In 1939, he set his 1000-yard record against another Hall of Famer, Glenn Cunningham, in a match race. One of his outdoor bests was a 46.2 for 440 yards, run on a straight course. World War II prevented Borican from competing in the Olympic Games. A portrait artist by profession, he had his brilliant career cut short on January 4, 1943, when he died of a mysterious form of pernicious anemia.

Records Held
World Record: 1,000 m - 2:24.30

Championships
1938 AAU: Pentathlon (1st)
1939 AAU: Pentathlon (1st)
1941 AAU: Decathlon (1st)
1941 AAU: 800 m (1st)
1942 AAU: 800 m (1st)

Occupations
Portrait artist and illustrator

Ralph Boston

Inducted: 1974, athlete

Born: May 9, 1939 - Laurel, Mississippi

Events
Long Jump - 8.35 m

Like fellow Hall of Famer Lee Calhoun, Ralph Boston was born in Laurel, Miss., and like Calhoun he became a world record holder and Olympic champion. While attending Tennessee A&I, he competed in the high jump, sprints, and high hurdles as well as the long jump, achieving a ranking as America's fourth-best high jumper in 1959. The following year, he concentrated on the long jump with a goal of making the Olympic team. He did that -- and more. After winning the national college long jump title, he broke Jesse Owens' long-standing world mark with a 26' 11 1/4" effort, then won the gold medal with an Olympic record of 26' 7 3/4" -- only one-half inch better than "Bo" Roberson of the U.S. He was silver medalist at the 1964 Olympics and was third in 1968 to collect a set of Olympic medals. In all, he set or tied the world record six times and his last mark of 27' 5" was the one Bob Beamon broke at Mexico City. Throughout the 1960s, he had an intense rivalry with Soviet long jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, who finished behind Boston at all three Olympics. Boston won six consecutive National AAU long jump championships outdoors and also had a national indoor title. He also won the AAU indoor hurdles title in 1965, placed fourth in the high jump at the 1963 Pan American Games, and was the top-ranked U.S. triple jumper in 1963. Boston retired after the 1968 Olympics and became an administrator at the University of Tennessee and also did some television commentary. He was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1985 and was one of eight current and former Olympians chosen to raise the Olympic Flag at the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

Records Held
World Record: Long Jump - 8.36 m (May 29, 1965 - October 18, 1968)

Championships
1960 Olympics: Long Jump - 8.12 m (1st)
1964 Olympics: Long Jump (2nd)
1968 Olympics: Long Jump (3rd)
1965 AAU Indoors: (1st)
1963 Pan Am Games: High Jump (4th)
1960 NCAA: Long Jump - 8.21 m (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Tennessee A&I (Nashville, Tennessee), 1960

Occupations
College administration
Television commentator

Tom Botts

Inducted: 1983, coach

Born: March 28, 1904 - Mexico, Missouri
Deceased: March 1, 1999

Career Highlights

• During his tenure with University of Missouri, Botts coached the 1965 NCAA-winning cross country team.

The coach at the University of Missouri for 26 years, Thomas "Tom" Botts developed the Tigers into one of the powers of the former Big Eight Conference. During his coaching tenure, his teams won four indoor and four outdoor conference titles. His 1965 cross country team won the national collegiate title and his harriers also claimed a pair of Big Eight titles. Overall, he coached 27 All-American athletes. Botts was a graduate of Westminster College in Missouri, where he played basketball and was an all-conference hurdler under Brutus Hamilton, also a Hall of Famer. After coaching at Fort Scott (Kansas) Junior College from 1931 to 1941, Botts went to Missouri as an assistant coach. In 1944, he became head coach and in 1961 was an assistant coach on the U.S. team that toured Europe. In 1970, Botts was the NCAA Coach of the Year and he retired two years later. He is also a member of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame and the Drake Relays Coaches Hall of Fame.

Education
undergraduate: Westminster (Fulton, Missouri), 1927

Occupations
Coach

Bill Bowerman

Inducted: 1981, coach

Born: February 9, 1911 - Portland, Oregon
Deceased: December 24, 1999

Career Highlights

• Teams coached by Bowerman won four national collegiate championships

One of the nation's most successful coaches during his tenure at the University of Oregon, Bill Bowerman also was the inventor of the waffle sole for running shoes. In addition, he helped to spread the gospel of jogging to the people of Eugene, Ore., and eventually to a nation of joggers. While an undergraduate at the University of Oregon, Bowerman played basketball and football for four years and joined the track team as a 440-yard runner in his junior year. After coaching high school sports in Portland and Medford, Ore., he fought for the U.S. Army in World War II. In 1949, Bowerman returned to the University of Oregon to replace his former coach, Bill Hayward, who had died. Over the next 23 years, Bowerman produced four national collegiate championship teams plus two more that were runners-up. Individually, his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. Among his 23 Olympic athletes were gold medalist Otis Davis, Dyrol Burleson, Jim Grelle, bronze medalist (and Hall of Famer) Bill Dellinger, Ken Moore, Wade Bell and the late Steve Prefontaine (who is also in the Hall of Fame). In the early 1960s, when he took his team to New Zealand for a competition there, he was impressed by the jogging boom in that country. Back in Eugene, he started the country's first running club and subsequently wrote a book called Jogging about running for fun and fitness. His message caught hold. He next created the first lightweight outsole shoe that was particularly well suited to distance running. After retiring from coaching in 1972, he became active with the Nike Shoe Company.

Education
high school: Medford (Medford, Oregon), 1930
undergraduate: Oregon (Eugene, Oregon), 1934

Occupations
Coach
Shoe design consultant

Don Bragg

Inducted: 1996, athlete

Born: May 15, 1935 - Penns Grove, New Jersey

Events
Pole Vault - 4.81 m

Don Bragg was the last of the great pole vaulters to use a steel pole. From 1954 until 1960, he was always world ranked and capped a brilliant career in 1960 by setting a world record of 15' 9 1/4" at the Olympic Trials and winning an Olympic gold medal with a vault of 15' 5". He set a world indoor record of 15' 9 1/2" at Philadelphia in 1959 and, like Hall of Famer Cornelius Warmerdam, vaulted better indoors than outdoors. At 6' 3" and 197 pounds, Bragg was one of the largest vaulters in history. While at Villanova University, he won the NCAA pole vault championship in 1955 and was the IC4A champion, both indoors and outdoors, from 1955 to 1957. He also tied for the AAU indoor championship. After graduating in 1957, Bragg again tied for the AAU indoor championship in 1958, then won the event from 1959 through 1961. He was also the AAU outdoor champion in 1959. Nicknamed "Tarzan" because of his size and strength, Bragg's goal was to play that role in the movies. His dream was unfulfilled. He later became athletic director at Stockton State College (N.J.), the owner of a summer camp, and the author of A Chance to Dare: The Don Bragg Story.

Records Held
World Record: Pole Vault - 4.81 m
World Record: Pole Vault - 4.81 m (July 2, 1960 - )

Championships
1960 Olympics: Pole Vault - 4.70 m (1st)
1957 AAU Indoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1958 AAU Indoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1959 AAU Indoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1959 AAU Outdoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1960 AAU Indoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1961 AAU Indoors: Pole Vault (1st)
1955 NCAA: Pole Vault (1st)

Education
high school: Penns Grove (Penns Grove, New Jersey), 1953
undergraduate: Villanova (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1957

Occupations
Coach

Valerie Brisco

Inducted: 1995, athlete

Born: July 6, 1960 - Greenwood, Mississippi

Events
200 m - 21.81
400 m - 48.83

More than a decade before Michael Johnson galvanized world attention with his 200m/400m doubles, Valerie Brisco became the first person to perform that feat in the Olympics. Her stage was ideal: the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, just miles from her home at that time. She set American records in both individual events, running 21.81 in the 200m and 48.83 in the 400m. She won her third gold medal that year when she anchored the U.S. 4x400m relay team that set an American record with its time of 3:18.28. In 1988, Brisco won her fourth Olympic medal when she ran the third leg on the 4x400m relay team that broke the world record but finished second to the USSR team. Her previous running career barely hinted at her true abilities. She won the 1979 AIAW 200m championship while a student at California State-Northridge and was on the 4x100m relay team that won a gold medal at the Pan American Games. After marrying and giving birth to a child, she put her running career on hold. She finally underwent a rigorous training program in time to emerge as a superstar in 1984, winning the national indoor 200 and outdoor 400 titles that year. She became the first American woman to break 50 seconds in the 400 meters with her time of 49.83. In 1985, she set an indoor world record of 52.99 in the 400-yard run, and she was the national champion in the outdoor 400m in 1986. In 1987, she won a relay gold medal at the Pan American Games and a bronze medal as a member of the 4x400m relay at the World Outdoor Championships.

Records Held
World Record: 400 m - 52.99
American Record: 200 m - 21.81 (August 9, 1984 - )
American Record: 400 m - 48.83 (August 6, 1984 - )
American Record: 1,600 m relay - 3:18.28

Championships
1984 Olympics: 200 m - 21.81 (1st)
1984 Olympics: 400 m - 48.83 (1st)
1984 Olympics: 1,600 m relay - 3:18.28 (1st)
1988 Olympics: 1,600 m relay (2nd)
1987 World Outdoors: 1,600 m relay (3rd)
1979 Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women: 200 m (1st)
1984 US Indoors: 200 m (1st)
1984 US Outdoors: 400 m - 49.83 (1st)
1986 US Outdoors: 400 m (1st)
1987 Pan Am Games: (1st)

Education
undergraduate: California State-Northridge (Northridge, California), 1979

Occupations
Athlete

Doris Brown (Heritage)

Inducted: 1990, athlete

Born: September 17, 1942 - Tacoma, Washington

Events
800 m - 2:02.20
1,500 m - 4:14.40
3,000 m - 9:46.90
2 mi. - 10:07

A pioneer in women's distance running, Doris Brown Heritage won the world cross country championships from 1967 to 1972 -- the first five years in which this international competition took place. Undeterred by the obstacles women faced in the sport during those years, she had already developed her versatility as a runner. After being barred from even using the school track while she was in Peninsula High School, she joined a local running club and set a national record in the 440-yard dash. She next trained for the 800 meters -- the longest event then on the Olympic program for women -- and finished third at the 1960 Trials. Unfortunately, her time didn't qualify her for the Rome Olympics. That year, she entered Seattle Pacific College and began running with the men's team. A broken foot kept her off the 1964 Olympic team, but she pressed ahead. In 1966, she became the first women to run a sub-5 minute mile indoors, clocking 4:52. By the following year, she began her string of five world cross country championships. In 1968, she finished fifth in the 800 meters at the Mexico City Olympics. She set world records at 3000m and two miles during 1971, and that year, took a silver medal in the 800m at the Pan American Games. In all, she represented the U.S. on nine world cross country teams and won 14 national titles. An outstanding distance running coach at Seattle Pacific University, she was named an assistant coach for the U.S. women's team at the 1984 Olympics and 1987 Outdoor World Championships. She is also the first female member of the Cross Country and Road Running Committee of the IAAF, the world's governing body for the sport. In addition, Heritage is a member of the Distance Running Hall of Fame.

Records Held
World Record: 3,000 m - 9:26.90 (July 7, 1971 - )
World Record: 2 mi. - 10:07 (July 7, 1971 - )

Championships
1968 Olympics: 800 m (5th)
1971 Pan Am Games: 800 m (2nd)

Education
high school: Peninsula (Gig Harbor, Washington), 1960
undergraduate: Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, Washington), 1964

Occupations
Teacher
Coach
Administrator

Avery Brundage

Inducted: 1974, administrator

Born: September 28, 1887
Deceased: May 8, 1975

Career Highlights

• President of the International Olympic Committee, 1929-1953

A highly successful businessman, Avery Brundage was equally successful as an athlete and administrator. As an athlete, he was three-time National AAU champion in the decathlon and pentathlon. At the 1912 Olympics, he was 22nd in the discus, fifth in the pentathlon and 14th in the decathlon. He devoted almost half a century to the administration of track and field, serving as many as four positions concurrently. Brundage was president of the Central Amateur Athletic Union from 1928 to 1933; president of the AAU in those same years and again in 1935; and president of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1929 to 1953. After becoming a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1936, he became its president from 1952 to 1972. A multimillionaire contractor, Brundage devoted a large portion of his fortume to amateur athletics.

Championships
1912 Olympics: Discus Throw (22nd)
1912 Olympics: Pentathlon (5th)
1912 Olympics: Decathlon (14th)

Education
high school: Chicago English (Chicago, Illinois), 1905
undergraduate: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), 1909

Occupations
Businessman
Track & field administrator

Jim Bush

Inducted: 1987, coach

Born: September 15, 1926 - Cleveland, Ohio

Career Highlights

• Bush's UCLA teams won five NCAA championships

One of the most successful college track and field coaches in history, Jim Bush coached some of the world's top athletes during his 20-year tenure at UCLA. As coach of the Bruins, he produced five NCAA championship teams, 21 Olympic team members and a glittering 152 victories and only 21 losses in dual meet competition (an 87.9 winning percentage). In addition, his UCLA teams won seven Pacific-10 Conference titles and were undefeated in 10 dual meet seasons. Highly regarded by his peers, he was twice selected as "Coach of the Year" by the U.S. Track Coaches Association, serving as president of that group in 1972-73. The author of several coaching books, he was the head U.S. track coach at the 1979 Pan American Games. While at the University of California, Bush competed in the 400-yard dash and the high hurdles. His collegiate coaching career started at Fullerton Junior College in 1960. After three seasons at Occidental College from 1962 to 1965, he became head coach at UCLA. After leaving UCLA in 1984, Bush served as a consultant in various track and running-related activities.

Education
high school: Fullerton (Fullerton, California), 1947
undergraduate: California (Berkeley, California), 1951

Occupations
Coach

Lee Calhoun

Inducted: 1974, athlete

Born: February 23, 1933 - Laurel, Mississippi
Deceased: June 22, 1989

Events
110 m hurdles - 13.20

Lee Calhoun is the first athlete to win the 110m hurdles at two different Olympics. In both Olympics, he won by slim margins and led U.S. 1-2-3 sweeps. The first time, in 1956, he entered the season with a time of only 14.4 seconds, but improved by almost a full second, winning the gold medal in a time of 13.5. His second gold medal was less of a surprise, for he tied the world record of 13.2 in Bern, Switzerland shortly before the Rome Olympics. In Rome, he won in 13.98, beating Willie May of the U.S. by one-hundredth of a second. Shortly before the Rome Olympics, he tied the world record of 13.2 for both yards and meters. While at North Carolina Central College under Hall of Fame coach Leroy Walker, Calhoun won the 1956 and 1957 NCAA titles. He also won five National AAU titles, three of them outdoors. After retiring from competition, he became a college track coach, first at Grambling University, then at Yale, and finally at Western Illinois University. He was an assistant Olympic coach in 1976 and was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1990. Calhoun's memory lives on with the annual running of the Lee Calhoun High School Invitational hosted by North Carolina Central.

Records Held
World Record: 110 m hurdles - 13.20 (August 21, 1960 - )

Championships
1956 Olympics: 110 m hurdles - 13.50 (1st)
1960 Olympics: 110 m hurdles - 13.98 (1st)
1956 NCAA: 110 m hurdles (1st)
1957 NCAA: 110 m hurdles (1st)

Education
undergraduate: North Carolina Central (Durham, North Carolina), 1957

Occupations
Coach

Milt Campbell

Inducted: 1989, athlete

Born: December 9, 1933 - Plainfield, New Jersey

Events
Decathlon - 7708 pts.
120 yd. hurdles - 13.40
110 m hurdles - 13.80

When you mention top all-around male athletes in our nation's history, certainly the name of Milt Campbell has to be up there with Jim Thorpe, Bob Mathias, Rafer Johnson, Bruce Jenner and Dan O'Brien. Like them, Campbell was an Olympic decathlon champion but track and field wasn't the only sport in which he excelled. He was also outstanding in football, eventually playing in the National Football and Canadian Leagues. He was an All-American swimmer while in high school and was also national class in karate. While still at Plainfield High School, Campbell finished fifth in the Olympic Trials in the 110m hurdles but made the Olympic team in the decathlon. He gained national prominence by finishing second to Mathias in the Olympic decathlon. The 1953 national decathlon champion, Campbell later won the Olympic decathlon title in 1956. Also a national champion in the high hurdles, he set a 120-yard high hurdles record of 13.4 in 1957 and held the world indoor best of 7.0 for the 60-yard high hurdles. After attending Indiana University where he excelled in both track and football, he played pro football with the Cleveland Browns and the Montreal Alouettes. He has received numerous honors, including being named the world's greatest high school athlete in 1952. The Newark Star-Ledger selected him as the greatest athlete of the 20th century, not only for his sports accomplishments but also for the strength of his character. Campbell is also a member of the Black Athletes' Hall of Fame and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.

Records Held
World Record: 120 yd. hurdles - 13.40 (May 31, 1957 - )

Championships
1952 Olympics: Decathlon (2nd)
1956 Olympics: Decathlon - 7708 pts. (1st)
1953 National Championships: Decathlon (1st)

Education
high school: Plainfield (Plainfield, New Jersey), 1953
undergraduate: Indiana (Bloomington, Indiana), 1957

Occupations
Professional football

Henry Carr

Inducted: 1997, athlete

Born: November 27, 1942 - Montgomery, Alabama

Events
100 m - 10.20
200 m - 20.20
400 m - 45.40

One of the greatest long sprinters in U.S. track and field history, Henry Carr was an outstanding high school sprinter in Detroit, Mich., before starring at Arizona University. While competing for the Sun Devils, he won or tied for three national titles, and set world records in the 200m, 220 yards, and 4x400m relay. He was top ranked in the world in the 200 in 1963 and 1964, before losing to Paul Drayton at the 1964 Olympic Trials. In Tokyo, he won handily, setting an Olympic record of 20.3. While running at Arizona State, he also excelled at 400 meters, running the world's sixth fastest time of 45.4 in the summer of 1963. His anchor leg of 44.5 on the 4x400m relay at the 1964 Olympics solidified the U.S. victory in that event. After college, Carr played football with the New York Giants and later the Detroit Lions.

Records Held
World Record: 200 m - 20.20 (April 4, 1964 - )
World Record: 1,600 m relay - 3:00.70
Olympic Record: 200 m - 20.30

Championships
1964 Olympics: 200 m - 20.30 (1st)
1964 Olympics: 1,600 m relay - 3:00.70 (1st)

Education
high school: Detroit Northwestern (Detroit, Michigan), 1961
undergraduate: Arizona State (Tempe, Arizona), 1964

Occupations
Professional football

Chandra Cheeseborough

Inducted: 2000, athlete

Born: January 10, 1959 - Jacksonville, Florida

Events
200 m - 21.99
400 m - 49.05

Although only 16 years old, Chandra Cheeseborough broken onto the international track scene in spectacular fashion by winning two gold medals at the 1975 Pan American Games, taking the 200m in an American record time of 22.77. Earlier that year, the Jacksonville native had attended a summer track program at Tennessee State University and benefited from the tutelage of Hall of Fame coach Ed Temple. In 1976, she set an American junior record of 11.13 in winning the 100 meters at the national championships, then placed sixth in that event at the Montreal Olympics. After high school, she attended Tennessee State, where she was a member of national championship teams that set world indoor records of 1:08.9 in the 640-yard relay and 1:47.17 in the 800-yard sprint medley relay. She won the national indoor 200-yard dash in 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1983. Her breakthrough year in the 400m came in 1984, when set two American records in the event, then placed second in the Los Angeles Olympics in a career best of 49.04. She made history at the 1984 Games when she became the first woman to win gold medals in both relays, held less than an hour apart. Cheeseborough later became a coach and returned to Tennessee State. She was named head coach of both men and women in 1999, following in Temple's footsteps. She also has served as an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 1999 Junior Pan-Am Championships.

Records Held
World Record: 640 yd. relay - 1:08.90
American Record: 200 m - 22.77

Championships
1976 Olympics: 100 m (6th)
1984 Olympics: 400 m - 49.04 (2nd)
1984 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1984 Olympics: 1,600 m relay (1st)
1976 National Championships: 100 m - 11.13 (1st)
1979 National Indoor Championships: 200 yd. (1st)
1981 National Indoor Champs: 200 yd. (1st)
1982 National Indoor Champs: 200 yd. (1st)
1983 National Indoor Champs: 200 yd. (1st)
1975 Pan Am Games: 200 m - 22.77 (1st)

Education
high school: Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Florida), 1974
undergraduate: Tennessee State (Nashville, Tennessee), 1978

Occupations
Coach

Ellery Clark

Inducted: 1991, athlete

Born: March 13, 1874 - East Roxbury, Massachusetts
Deceased: February 17, 1949

Events
Decathlon - 6318 pts.

Versatile in both his athletic and professional lives, Ellery Clark was a double gold medalist at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. At the Olympic revival in Athens, Clark won both the high jump and long jump. He is still the only person to ever win those events in the same Olympics. He never won a national championship in either jump, but he was the 1897 and 1903 AAU champion in the all-around, a forerunner of the decathlon. His performance in 1903 followed two years when he was forced from the sport by torn knee ligaments. At age 30, Clark made his second Olympic appearance at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, but bronchitis limited him to a sixth place finish in the all-around competition. A Harvard graduate, Clark was one of the nation's top all-around athletes from 1893 to 1912 and competed as a race walker until the age of 56. Clark's professional life was equally varied. He excelled as a lawyer, track coach, teacher, Boston city alderman and author of 19 books, including one that was made into a 1952 film, Caribbean.

Championships
1896 Olympics: High Jump (1st)
1896 Olympics: Long Jump (1st)
1904 Olympics: Decathlon (6th)
1897 AAU: Decathlon (1st)
1903 AAU: Decathlon (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1897

Occupations
Author
Attorney
Coach
Politician
Teacher

Alice Coachman (Davis)

Inducted: 1975, athlete

Born: November 9, 1923 - Albany, Georgia

Events
High Jump - 1.68 m

Alice Coachman achieved her greatest fame in 1948 when she won the Olympic high jump title in an Olympic and American record of 5' 6 1/8", thus becoming the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. Her only Olympic opportunity came late, since prior competition was restricted by World War II. Coachman nonetheless won 25 national titles, most of them in the high jump where she won 10 consecutive titles from 1939 to 1948. A fine sprinter, she won the outdoor 50m dash from 1943 through 1947, the outdoor 100 meters in 1942, 1945 and 1946, and the indoor 50m dash in 1945 and 1946. Coachman also ran anchor on Tuskegee Institute's national champion 4x100m relay teams in 1941 and 1942. After Coachman won her first national championship in the high jump at age 16, Tuskegee Institute coach Cleve Abbott asked her to join his team. The following year, though still a high schooler, she moved from Albany, Ga., to Tuskegee, where fellow Hall of Famer Abbott became her coach. She later attended both Tuskegee Institute and Albany State in Georgia and after her competitive days became a schoolteacher and coach.

Records Held
Olympic Record: High Jump - 1.68 m (August 7, 1948 - )
American Record: High Jump - 1.68 m (August 7, 1948 - )

Championships
1948 Olympics: High Jump - 1.68 m (1st)
1939 National Championships: High Jump (1st)
1940 National Championships: High Jump (1st)
1941 National Championships: High Jump (1st)
1942 National Championships: High Jump (1st)
1942 US Outdoors: 100 m (1st)
1943 National Champs: High Jump (1st)
1943 US Outdoors: 50 m (1st)
1944 National Championships: High Jump (1st)
1944 US Outdoors: 50 m (1st)
1945 National Championships: High Jump (1st)
1945 US Indoors: 50 m (1st)
1945 US Outdoors: 50 m (1st)
1945 US Outdoors: 100 m (1st)
1946 National Championships: High Jump (1st)
1946 US Indoors: 50 m (1st)
1946 US Outdoors: 50 m (1st)
1946 US Outdoors: 100 m (1st)
1947 National Championships: High Jump (1st)
1947 US Outdoors: 50 m (1st)
1948 National Championships: High Jump (1st)
1941 NCAA: 400 m relay (1st)
1942 NCAA: 400 m relay (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Tuskegee Institute (Tuskegee, Alabama)
undergraduate: Albany State (Albany, Georgia), 1946

Occupations
Schoolteacher
Coach

Harold Connolly

Inducted: 1984, athlete

Born: August 1, 1931 - Somerville, Massachusetts

Events
Hammer Throw - 71.26 m

In 1956, Connolly won the gold medal in the hammer throw at the Melbourne Olympics. Connolly represented the U.S. in three subsequent Olympics, finishing 8th in 1960 and 6th in 1964 before failing to qualify for the final in 1968. One of the greatest hammer throwers in track and field history, Harold Connolly was the 1956 Olympic champion who broke the world record seven times, helping to place the U.S. in the forefront of an event that historically had not been one of the nation's best. A graduate of Boston College, Connolly won 12 national titles, including nine in the hammer outdoors and three indoors with the 35-pound weight throw. While at Boston College, Connolly took up the event to strengthen his left arm, which was slightly withered at birth and weakened from injuries in football and wrestling. By 1955, he became the first American to surpass 200 feet, throwing 201' 5". That was just the beginning of his record-setting exploits. He gained his first world record with a throw of 224' 10", shortly before the 1956 Olympics. Wearing ballet shoes to improve his footing in the concrete ring, he beat long-time world record holder Mikhail Krivonosov to win the gold medal. Besides 1956, he also was a member of the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympic teams, but it was in 1956 that Connolly grabbed world attention when he met Olga Fikatova, the Olympic women's discus champion from Czechoslovakia. A romance developed and they were married in October 1957. They divorced in 1975 but a son by that marriage, Jim, later became an outstanding decathlon competitor at UCLA. Connolly subsequently married the former Pat Winslow, a three-time Olympian in the 800 meters and pentathlon. Their youngest son, Adam, carried on his father's tradition, ranking third among U.S. hammer throwers in 1999. After retiring from competition, Hal Connolly became a schoolteacher, manager of Special Olympics International, and publisher of a web site to promote his event, hammerthrow.org.

Records Held
World Record: Hammer Throw - 68.54 m
World Record: Hammer Throw - 71.26 m (June 20, 1975 - )

Championships
1956 Olympics: Hammer Throw (1st)
1960 Olympics: Hammer Throw (8th)
1964 Olympics: Hammer Throw (6th)
1968 Olympics: Hammer Throw

Education
undergraduate: Boston College (Boston, Massachusetts), 1952

Occupations
Schoolteacher
Coach
Administrator for Special Olympics
Author
Publisher of hammerthrow.com

Lillian Copeland

Inducted: 1994, athlete

Born: November 25, 1904 - New York, New York
Deceased: February 7, 1964

Events
Discus Throw - 40.60 m
Javelin Throw - 38.30 m

A world or American record holder in three throwing events, Lillian Copeland was only a part-time competitor in 1932, when the Olympics were held in Los Angeles. As a student at the University of Southern California, she took time away from her studies to prepare for the Trials. There, she finished third in the discus, before winning the gold medal at the Games on her final throw. The first great American woman weight thrower, Copeland won nine national AAU titles in three events. She was the shot put champion from 1925 through 1928 and again in 1931, the discus champion in 1926 and 1927, and the javelin champion in 1926 and 1931. Copeland set world records in the javelin in 1926, 1927 and 1928, but neither that event nor the shot was on the Olympic program. However, she did win a silver medal in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. Four years later, she won gold in that event with an Olympic record of 133' 2". Amazingly quick for a weight thrower, she was a member of a 440-yard relay team that set a national record in 1928. Copeland worked for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and was a juvenile officer for 24 years.

Records Held
World Record: Javelin Throw - 38.30 m (February 26, 1927 - )
American Record: Discus Throw - 40.60 m (August 2, 1932 - )

Championships
1925 AAU: Shot Put (1st)
1926 AAU: Shot Put (1st)
1926 AAU: Discus Throw (1st)
1926 AAU: Javelin Throw (1st)
1927 AAU: Discus Throw (1st)
1927 AAU: Shot Put (1st)
1928 AAU: Shot Put (1st)
1931 AAU: Shot Put (1st)
1931 AAU: Javelin Throw (1st)

Education
undergraduate: University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)

Occupations
Juvenile officer, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Tom Courtney

Inducted: 1978, athlete

Born: August 17, 1933 - Newark, New Jersey

Events
800 yd. - 1:46.80
800 m - 1:46.40

An extremely strong runner, Tom Courtney came into national prominence while a student at Fordham University, winning the IC4A indoor 1000-yard run in 1954 and the NCAAA outdoor 880-yard title in 1955, as well as running the anchor leg on Fordham's outstanding 4x800 relay team. Courtney's career peaked in 1956 when he set an American record of 1:46.4 in the 800 meters at the Olympic Trials, then won one of the closest, most dramatic races in Olympic history by outleaning Great Britain's Derek Johnson to win the 800 meters. Courtney later wrote: "It was a new kind of agony for me....The only thing I could think was, 'If I live, I will never run again.'" He returned during the same Olympics to anchor the winning U.S. 4x400m relay team. A two-time National AAU champion at 880 yards and once at 440 yards, Courtney also held world indoor bests for the 600-yard and 880-yard races.

Records Held
World Record: 800 yd. - 1:46.80 (May 24, 1957 - )
American Record: 800 m - 1:46.40

Championships
1956 Olympics: 800 m (1st)
1956 Olympics: 1,600 m relay (1st)
1955 NCAA: 880 yd. (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Fordham (Bronx, New York), 1955

Dean Cromwell

Inducted: 1974, coach

Born: September 20, 1879 - Turner, Oregon
Deceased: August 3, 1962

Career Highlights

• As track coach, Cromwell's teams at University of Southern California won 12 national collegiate titles, including nine in a row.

Nicknamed "Maker of Champions," Dean Cromwell was the head coach at the University of Southern California for 39 years, developing a track and field heritage that still exists. Cromwell participated in track and field and played baseball and football at Occidental College, from which he graduated in 1902. After working for the telephone company for seven years, he became head track and football coach at USC in 1909. Over the next 39 years, his track teams won 12 NCAA championship, including 9 in a row from 1935 through 1943. They also won 9 IC4A titles. From 1939 through 1948, USC lost only three dual meets. During his tenure, USC athletes won national college titles and 38 National AAU crowns. They also set 14 individual world records plus three more in the relays. He coached 10 Olympic gold medal winners, including at least one at every Olympics from 1912 through 1948, and had 36 U.S. Olympic team members. Among his athletes were such fellow Hall of Famers as Charlie Paddock, Bud Houser, Mel Patton, Vern Wolfe and Frank Wykoff. Cromwell retired in 1948 after coaching the U.S. Olympic team to 10 gold medals.

Education
undergraduate: Occidental (Los Angeles, California), 1902

Occupations
Coach

Glenn Cunningham

Inducted: 1974, athlete

Born: August 4, 1909 - Atlanta, Kansas
Deceased: March 10, 1988

Events
800 m - 1:49.70
1,500 m - 3:48.00
1 mi. - 4:04.40

An athlete who survived severe burns on his legs as a youth, Glenn Cunningham was one of the world's top middle distance runners during the 1930s, winning the prestigious Sullivan Award in 1933 as the nation's top amateur athlete. Cunningham first came to national attention as a senior at Elkhart (Kan.) High School, when he won mile titles at the Kansas Relays, state outdoor and National Interscholastic Meet, where he set a world prep record of 4:24.7. At Kansas University, he won six Big-6 mile runs, two NCAA titles and eight AAU national titles. His durability and versatility earned him the nickname, "Kansas Ironman." After winning the national collegiate and AAU championships in 1932, he placed fourth in the 1500 meters at the Los Angeles Olympics. He was even more successful in 1933, sweeping the 800 and 1500 meter runs at the AAU nationals, touring Europe and completing the season with an undefeated record in 20 races. The following year, he set a world one-mile record of 4:06.8 that stood for three years. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he finished second to Jack Lovelock of New Zealand in the 1500 meters. Two weeks later, he set a world record of 1:49.7 in the 800 meters. He was virtually unbeatable indoors, winning six Wanamaker Miles at the Millrose Games and being named the outstanding track and field performer in the history of Madison Square Garden. Seven times, he set world indoor records for the 1500 and the mile. In 1938, running on Dartmouth College's oversized track, he set a world indoor mile record of 4:04.4, surpassing the outdoor record by a full two seconds. After earning a master's degree from the University of Iowa and a doctorate from New York University, Cunningham retired from competition in 1940 and for four years was director of physical education at Cornell College in Iowa. He and his wife later opened the Glenn Cunningham Youth Ranch in Kansas, where they helped to raise about 10,000 underprivileged children.

Records Held
World Record: 800 m - 1:49.70 (August 20, 1936 - )
World Record: 1 mi. - 4:06.80 (June 16, 1934 - )
World Record: 1 mi. - 4:04.40 (March 3, 1938 - )

Championships
1932 Olympics: 1,500 m (4th)
1936 Olympics: 1,500 m (2nd)
1932 AAU: 1,500 m (1st)
1933 AAU: 800 m (1st)
1933 AAU: 1,500 m (1st)
1932 NCAA: 1,500 m (1st)

Education
high school: Elkhart (Elkhart, Kansas), 1930
undergraduate: Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas), 1934

Occupations
Director of physical education
Rancher

William Curtis

Inducted: 1979, contributor

Born: January 17, 1837 - Salisbury, Vermont
Deceased: June 30, 1900

William "Father Bill" Curtis was one of the prime movers behind the development of track and field in the U.S. A free-lance writer and a versatile athlete, Curtis in 1866 became the guiding spirit behind the New York Athletic Club. The club officially got underway in 1868 and it held New York City's first indoor meet on November 11 at the Empire City Skating Rink. One of the first winners in that meet was Curtis, who ran the 75-yard dash in 9.0. On that occasion, he became the first athlete to wear spiked shoes on an American track team although they were in common use in England. Curtis was used to winning. From 1852 to 1872, he took on all comers in the 100-yard dash and never lost a race. He also was a three-time National AAU champion in the hammer throw and earned another title in the 56-pound weight throw. A colorful writer, Curtis went on to become publisher of the city's foremost sports newspaper.

Occupations
Free-lance writer
Editor

Willie Davenport

Inducted: 1982, athlete

Born: June 8, 1943 - Troy, Alabama
Deceased: June 18, 2002

Events
110 m hurdles - 13.20

A four-time competitor at the Summer Olympic Games as a high hurdler, Willie Davenport achieved a unique distinction in 1980 by becoming one of the few athletes to ever compete in both Summer and Winter Olympic Games. That year, Davenport competed in the Winter Olympics as a bobsledder but did not place. His Olympic credentials on the track were far more impressive. He won the gold medal in the 110m hurdles at the 1968 Olympics with a meet record of 13.3 and in other Olympic appearances he failed to make the final in 1964, was fourth in 1972 and third in 1976. After an outstanding athletic career at Howland High School, Davenport joined the U.S. Army and became a member of its track team. As a PFC in 1964, he was the surprise winner in the 110m hurdles at the Olympic Trials and suddenly became the favorite for the gold medal in Tokyo. However, he incurred a thigh injury and failed to advance beyond the semi-finals. The next three years, he was national champion in the 110m hurdles and won the gold medal at the 1968 Olympics. He tied the world record of 13.2 at Zurich, Switzerland, on July 4, 1969. Davenport was equally formidable indoors, winning the national championship in the 60-yard hurdles five times, in 1966 and 1967 and from 1969 through 1971. After being discharged from the Army, he competed for Southern University in Louisiana. He subsequently returned to military duty and rose to the rank of Colonel in the Army National Guard. He coached the All-Army men's and women's track teams to an unprecedented four undefeated seasons from 1993 to 1996. At the time of his death in 2002, he was chief of the National Guard Bureau's Office of Sports Management.

Records Held
World Record: 110 m hurdles - 13.20 (July 4, 1969 - )

Championships
1964 Olympics: 110 m hurdles
1968 Olympics: 110 m hurdles (1st)
1972 Olympics: 110 m hurdles (4th)
1976 Olympics: 110 m hurdles (3rd)
1965 US Outdoors: 110 m hurdles (1st)
1966 US Indoors: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1966 US Outdoors: 110 m hurdles (1st)
1967 US Indoors: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1967 US Outdoors: 110 m hurdles (1st)
1969 US Indoors: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1970 US Indoors: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1971 US Indoors: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)

Education
high school: Howland (Warren, Ohio)
undergraduate: Southern (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), 1969

Occupations
U.S. Army officer
Coach

Glenn Davis

Inducted: 1974, athlete

Born: September 12, 1934 - Wellsburg, West Virginia

Events
200 m hurdles - 22.50
400 yd. hurdles - 49.90
400 m hurdles - 49.20
440 yd. - 45.70

A versatile, multi-talented athlete while at Ohio State University, Glenn Davis ran the 400m hurdles for the first time in 1956. It was a momentous debut. He won the AAU national championship, beating established star Josh Culbreath. At the Olympic Trials, he became the first athlete to break 50 seconds in the 400m hurdles, winning in a world record of 49.5. He capped his year by winning the event at the Melbourne Olympic in an Olympic record of 50.1. Four years later, in Rome, he became the first person to win the event for a second time, running 49.3 to surpass his own Olympic record. He won another gold medal as a member of the U.S. 4x400m relay team. Davis was a four-time AAU champion in the intermediate hurdles. An exceptional 400m-440-yard sprinter, Davis set a world record of 45.7 seconds in the 440-yard dash in 1958. That same year, he lowered his own world record in the 400m hurdles and set a world record of 49.9 in the 400-yard hurdles. He won the 1958 Sullivan Award as the top American amateur athlete. One of the rare times he ran the 200m hurdles, Davis set a world record of 22.5 in 1960. Coached by Hall of Famer Larry Snyder, Davis later played professional football for the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams before becoming a track coach and restaurateur.

Records Held
World Record: 200 m hurdles - 22.50
World Record: 400 yd. hurdles - 49.90
World Record: 400 m hurdles - 49.20 (August 6, 1958 - )
World Record: 440 yd. - 45.70
Olympic Record: 400 m hurdles - 50.10
Olympic Record: 400 m hurdles - 49.30

Championships
1956 Olympics: 400 m hurdles - 50.10 (1st)
1960 Olympics: 400 m hurdles - 49.30 (1st)
1960 Olympics: 1,600 m relay (1st)
1956 AAU: 400 m hurdles (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Ohio State (Columbus, Ohio), 1959

Occupations
Professional football player
Coach
Restaurateur

Harold (Hal) Davis

Inducted: 1974, athlete

Born: January 5, 1921 - Salinas, California
Deceased: August 12, 2007

Events
100 m - 10.20
200 m - 20.40

World War II deprived Harold Davis of the international recognition that should have been his. During the early 1940s, Davis rightfully held the title "World's Fastest Human," winning just about every major sprint title over a four-year period. In 1941, Davis tied Jesse Owens' world 100m dash record of 10.2 while a student at Salinas Junior College under Hall of Fame coach Bud Winter. He then transferred to the University of California, where he was coached by another Hall of Famer, Brutus Hamilton. There, Davis won the national collegiate 100 and 220 yard titles in 1942 and 1943. Overall, he won the AAU 100 title three times and was a four-time champion in the AAU 200. Nicknamed the "California Comet," Davis first came to attention while in high school, where he ran the 100 yards in 9.7 and the 220 in 21.0. In one of his first major college races, the NCAA 100 yard dash final, he stumbled, fell to the ground, recovered and made up five to seven meters on the field in finishing fourth. Thereafter, the only major race he lost was in the 1941 AAU 100 meters where he was narrowly beaten by fellow Hall of Famer Barney Ewell. A poor starter, Davis had an extremely fast finish and was at his best in the longer 200 meter race, in which he ran 20.4 on a straight course and was twice timed in a wind-aided 20.2. In 1946, he sustained a serious hamstring injury and never again attained top form.

Records Held
World Record: 100 m - 10.20 (June 6, 1941 - )

Championships
1941 AAU: 100 m (2nd)
1942 NCAA: 100 yd. (1st)
1942 NCAA: 220 yd. (1st)
1943 NCAA: 100 yd. (1st)
1943 NCAA: 220 yd. (1st)

Education
junior college: Salinas (Salinas, California)
undergraduate: California (Berkeley, California), 1943

Bill Dellinger

Inducted: 2000, athlete

Born: March 23, 1934 - Grants Pass, Oregon

Events
1,500 m - 3:41.50
2 mi. - 8:44
5,000 m - 13:49.80

Bill Dellinger was one of the greatest athlete-coaches ever produced by the state of Oregon. Though he knew little about running when he enrolled at the University of Oregon, he learned quickly under the tutelage of Hall of Fame coach Bill Bowerman. He became the first sophomore at Oregon to win the NCAA mile in 1954 and went on to win every collegiate cross-country race. In 1956, Dellinger lowered the American 5000m record three times and won the event at both the NCAAs and Olympic Trials. As a member of the Air Force in 1958, he set an American record of 3:41.5 in Budapest, Hungary. The following year, he won the 5000 meters at the Pan American Games as well as the AAU national indoor 3 mile run and the first of two consecutive AAU outdoor 5000 meters. He also set world indoor records of 8:49.9 for 2 miles and 13:37.0 for 3 miles. He made the U.S. Olympic team three times in the 5000 meters, winning a bronze medal in 1964 behind fellow American Bob Schul and France's Michel Jazy. After coaching in high school and junior college, he returned to Oregon in 1966 as cross country coach and became head track coach in 1973. Under his coaching, the Oregon Ducks won the 1984 NCAA outdoor track title and four NCAA cross country championships. Among the athletes he coached were Steve Prefontaine, Alberto Salazar, Rudy Chapa and Joaquin Cruz. He returned to the Olympics in 1984 as an assistant coach. He retired at the end of the 1998 cross country season but continued coaching in a consulting capacity. After suffering a stroke in 2000, he underwent rehabilitation and resumed coaching.

Records Held
World Record: 2 mi. - 8:50
World Record: 3 mi. - 13:37
American Record: 1,500 m - 3:41.50

Championships
1956 Olympics: 5,000 m
1960 Olympics: 5,000 m
1964 Olympics: 5,000 m - 13:49.80 (3rd)
1959 AAU Indoor: 3 mi. (1st)
1959 AAU Outdoor: 5,000 m (1st)
1960 AAU Outdoor: 5,000 m (1st)
1959 Pan Am Games: 5,000 m (1st)
1954 NCAA: 1 mi. (1st)
1956 NCAA: 5,000 m (1st)

Education
high school: Springfield (Springfield, Oregon), 1952
undergraduate: Oregon (Eugene, Oregon), 1956

Occupations
Coach

Mildred (Babe) Didriksen

Inducted: 1974, athlete

Born: June 26, 1914 - Beaumont, Texas
Deceased: September 27, 1956

Events
High Jump - 1.65 m
Javelin Throw - 43.68 m
80 m hurdles - 11.70

Named the top woman athlete in the first half of the 20th century, Babe Didriksen dominated every sport in which she participated -- including track and field. After starring for her undefeated high school basketball team, she was recruited to work for Employers Casualty Insurance Co. and play for the company team. She was an immediate success and was named an All-American in her first season. The company also had a track and field team and Didriksen quickly took it by storm, winning two national AAU titles within a month of competing in her first meet. In 1931, she was a one-woman show, scoring three victories, all with American record performances, in the 80-meter hurdles, long jump, and baseball throw. Bigger things awaited her. At the 1932 National AAU Championships, Didriksen entered herself as a team, won six of the eight contested events, and finished first overall, ahead of the 22-woman team from the University of Illinois. Olympic rules limited women from competing in more than three events, so Babe settled for two golds and a silver at the 1932 Games. In the 80-meter hurdles she narrowly defeated fellow American (and Hall of Famer) Evelyne Hall in world-best time of 11.7. She set an Olympic record of 143' 4" in winning the javelin. Her defeat in the high jump was controversial, since she cleared the same height as winner (and Hall of Famer) Jean Shiley, but the jump was declared illegal because she dove over the bar. Didriksen eventually became a legendary golfer, winning 82 amateur and professional tournaments overall, including 17 consecutive championships in 1946-47. Didriksen was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983. Her last name is sometimes spelled "Didrikson" but Didriksen is the name on her birth certificate.

Records Held
World Record: High Jump - 1.65 m (August 7, 1932 - )
World Record: 80 m hurdles - 11.70 (August 4, 1932 - )
American Record: Javelin Throw - 43.70 m (July 31, 1932 - )

Championships
1932 Olympics: Javelin Throw - 43.70 m (1st)
1932 Olympics: High Jump - 1.65 m (2nd)
1932 Olympics: 80 m hurdles - 11.70 (1st)

Education
high school: Beaumont (Beaumont, Texas), 1930

Occupations
Professional Golfer

Harrison Dillard

Inducted: 1974, athlete

Born: July 8, 1923 - Cleveland, Ohio

Events
100 m - 10.30
120 yd. hurdles - 13.60
110 m hurdles - 13.70

Harrison Dillard is the only man to ever win Olympic gold medals in both the sprints and high hurdles. Overall, he won four Olympic gold medals, also taking two in the 4x100 relays in 1948 and 1952. When Dillard was 13 years old, he attended a parade in Cleveland honoring triple-gold-medalist Jesse Owens upon his return from the 1936 Olympics. Dillard later met Owens, who presented him with his first pair of running shoes. Known as "Bones" because of his spindly size, Dillard attended Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, where he won four national collegiate titles in the high and low hurdles. He also took 14 AAU outdoor titles in the high and low hurdles and lost the opportunity for more because of the outbreak of World War II. After winning 82-straight hurdles races, Dillard failed to make the 1948 Olympic team as a hurdler but qualified in the 100 meters. In London, he outleaned the favored Barney Ewell of the U.S. to win the gold medal. Four years later, he won the gold medal in his trademark event, the 110m hurdles, narrowly beating American Jack Davis. An outstanding starter, Dillard was virtually unbeatable indoors, winning the AAU 60-yard hurdles seven years in a row from 1947 through 1953 and again in 1955. A world record holder in both the high and low hurdles, Dillard won the 1953 Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete.

Records Held
World Record: 120 yd. hurdles - 13.60 (April 17, 1948 - )
Olympic Record: 100 m - 10.30 (July 31, 1948 - )

Championships
1948 Olympics: 100 m - 10.30 (1st)
1948 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1952 Olympics: 110 m hurdles - 13.70 (1st)
1952 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1947 AAU: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1948 AAU: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1949 AAU: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1950 AAU: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1951 AAU: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1952 AAU: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1953 AAU: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)
1955 AAU: 60 yd. hurdles (1st)

Education
high school: East Tech (Cleveland, Ohio), 1941
undergraduate: Baldwin Wallace College (Berea, Ohio)

Occupations
Public relations

Ken Doherty

Inducted: 1976, athlete

Born: May 16, 1905 - Detroit, Michigan
Deceased: April 17, 1996

Events
Decathlon - 6593 pts.

John Kenneth "Ken" Doherty used the skills he developed as an Olympic decathlon competitor to become one of the top track coaches in the world. In 1928, Doherty won the Olympic Decathlon Trials and although not highly regarded at Amsterdam, he came up with a third-place finish. A graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, Doherty won a second AAU national decathlon title in 1929, setting an American record. He entered coaching and from 1939 to 1948 was head coach at the University of Michigan, winning nine Big Ten team titles. He then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he coached until 1961, also directing the Penn Relays, the first USA-USSR dual track meet and the Philadelphia Inquirer indoor meet. After retiring from coaching, Doherty excelled as a writer of instructional books, such as Modern Track and Field and Track and Field Omnibook. He was also a major contributor to the Hall of Fame Library at Butler University, which subsequently became the National Track & Field Research Collection of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. An annual fellowship in Doherty's name is administered by the AAFLA.

Championships
1928 Olympics: Decathlon (3rd)
1929 AAU: Decathlon (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Wayne State (Detroit, Michigan)

Occupations
Coach
Meet director
Writer

Charles Dumas

Inducted: 1990, athlete

Born: February 12, 1937 - Inglewood, California
Deceased: January 5, 2004

Events
High Jump - 2.15 m

On June 29, 1956, Charles Dumas sent a shock through the track and field world when he became the first person to jump seven feet. His clearance of 7' 0 1/2" at the Olympic Trials broke a major human barrier. A straddler with a very smooth technique, Dumas went on to win the gold medal in the event with an Olympic record of 6' 11 1/4". From 1955 to 1959, Dumas won or shared five-straight national high jump titles and was ranked first in the world twice during that period. In 1959, he captured the gold medal at the Pan American Games. Also an excellent hurdler (he ranked ?? in 1958), Dumas starred at both Compton Junior College and the University of Southern California. After finishing sixth at the 1960 Olympic Games, he made a comeback in 1964, cleared 7' 0 1/4" and ranked sixth in the nation. But after failing to make the 1964 Olympic team, he retired and later became a teacher.

Records Held
World Record: High Jump - 2.15 m (June 29, 1956 - )
Olympic Record: High Jump - 2.11 m

Championships
1956 Olympics: High Jump - 2.11 m (1st)
1960 Olympics: High Jump (6th)
1955 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1956 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1957 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1958 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1959 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1959 Pan-Am Games: High Jump (1st)

Education
high school: Centennial (Los Angeles, California)
junior college: Compton (Compton, California)
undergraduate: University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California), 1959

Occupations
Teacher

Millard (Bill) Easton

Inducted: 1975, coach

Born: September 13, 1906 - Stinesville, Indiana
Deceased: October 7, 1997

Career Highlights

• Easton won six NCAA titles at two different universities – Drake and Kansas

Millard "Bill" Easton built a reputation as one of the nation's best coaches at two universities -- Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and the University of Kansas. During a coaching career that spanned three decades, Easton produced 32 All-Americans and eight Olympians. Three of those were also Olympic champions and world record holders -- shot putter Bill Nieder, discus thrower Al Oerter and distance runner Billy Mills. As coach at Drake from 1941 through 1947, Easton produced three consecutive NCAA champion cross-country teams, from 1944 through 1946. He also served as director of the famed Drake Relays while he was there. He then moved to Kansas and in the 1950s his Jayhawk teams won the Big Eight cross country, indoor and outdoor track team titles eight years in a tow. His teams won the 1953 national collegiate cross country title and the 1959 and 1960 NCAA outdoor track titles. Before his retirement in 1965, his teams won 39 Big Eight conference championships in cross country and track. He subsequently coached the 1968 Mexican Olympic team. A graduate of Indiana University, Easton was coached by fellow Hall of Famer Billy Hayes.

Education
undergraduate: Indiana (Bloomington, Indiana)

Occupations
Coach

James (Jumbo) Elliot

Inducted: 1981, coach

Born: August 8, 1915 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Deceased: March 22, 1981

One of the most successful track coaches in the world while at Villanova University, James "Jumbo" Ellliott excelled at getting his athletes ready for the big meets, whether they were the Penn Relays or IC4A Championships, which his teams dominated for years, or the Olympic Games, for which he produced 28 competitors. As a student at Villanova, Elliott ran in the 220, 440, and 880-yard events. After he graduated in 1935, he became the school's part-time track coach while working for a company that sold contracting equipment. From 1949, when he took over at Villanova, until his death in 1981, Elliott achieved a coaching record that will be hard to duplicate. During that span, his teams won eight national collegiate team titles, three National AAU team crowns, and 39 IC4A indoor, outdoor and cross country championships. Individually, his athletes won 316 IC4A titles, 82 NCAA crowns and 62 National AAU championships. They set 22 world records outdoors and another 44 indoors. His Olympic gold medalists were Ron Delany in the 1956 1500m, Charles Jenkins in the 400, also in 1956, Don Bragg in the 1960 pole vault, Paul Drayton in the 1964 4x100m relay and Larry James in the 1968 4x400m relay. He is best known for developing outstanding distance runners, including Delaney, Marty Liquori, Eamonn Coghlan, and Sydney Maree.

Education
undergraduate: Villanova (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1935

Occupations
Coach
Businessman

Larry Ellis

Inducted: 1999, coach

Born: September 29, 1929 - Englewood, New Jersey
Deceased: November 4, 1998

Career Highlights

• Under Ellis' direction, the Princeton Tigers won eight of nine Heptagonal Cross Country Championships between 1975 and 1983.

An inspirational coach for 13 years at Jamaica (N.Y.) High School, Ellis moved to Princeton University in 1970 where he was head coach for 22 years. Among the star athletes he coached were Bob Beamon, former world record holder in the long jump, and Craig Masback, an outstanding miler/1500m runner who is now Chief Executive Officer of USATF. Under Ellis' tutelage, Princeton won 11 Heptagonal team titles in track plus another eight in cross country. He received Coach of the Year honors for 1981-82. In 1984, Ellis guided the men's Olympic team that included Carl Lewis, winner of four gold medals at the Los Angeles Games. He coached U.S. men's teams at four other international meets, including a squad that beat the Soviet Union in a memorable dual meet in 1978. He served USATF in many capacities and was the organization's president from 1992 to 1996. An outstanding middle distance runner at New York University, he was third in the 1951 NCAA 800m and in 1950 won the Canadian indoor 1000-yard title.

Education
undergraduate: New York (New York, New York), 1951

Occupations
Coach

Lee Evans

Inducted: 1983, athlete

Born: February 25, 1947 - Madera, California

Events
400 m - 43.86

On October 18, 1968, Lee Evans was one of two Americans to set astonishing world records at the Mexico City Olympics. Within an hour of Bob Beamon's titanic achievement in the long jump, Evans became the first person to break 44 seconds in the 400 meters. His world-record time of 43.86 would endure for 20 years. He also ran on the winning 1968 Olympic 4x400m relay team that clocked 2:56.1, once again a time that stood as a world record for 20 years. Evans was undefeated during his track career at Overfelt High School in San Jose, Calif., improving his 440-yard time from 48.2 in 1964 to 46.9 in 1965. He attended San Jose State, where he was coached by Hall of Famer Bud Winter. As a freshman, he won his first AAU championship in 1966 and improved his 400m time to an impressive 45.2. For several years, he was the world's top runner at 400 meters and 440 yards, losing only to fellow Hall of Famer Tommie Smith in 1967. He was AAU champion from 1966 to 1969 and again in 1972. Evans also was the 1967 Pan American Games champion. He finished fourth in the 400 meters at the 1972 Olympic Trials, but was included on the 4x400m relay team. He became a professional in 1973 but was reinstated in 1980. Following his graduation, he served as head cross country and assistant track coach at San Jose State before beginning an international coaching career. Between 1975 and 1997 Evans directed the national track and field programs of Nigeria and Saudi Arabia and trained athletes in 18 other countries. In 1977, he was the sprint coach for the All-African team at the first World Cup and earned coach of the year honors in Nigeria that year. In 2002, Evans joined the coaching staff of the University of Washington, working primarily with the men's and women's sprinters and relay team members.

Records Held
World Record: 400 m - 43.86 (October 18, 1968 - )
World Record: 1,600 m relay - 2:56.10

Championships
1968 Olympics: 400 m - 43.86 (1st)
1968 Olympics: 1,600 m relay (1st)
1966 AAU: 400 m (1st)
1967 AAU: 400 m (1st)
1968 AAU: 400 m (1st)
1969 AAU: 400 m (1st)
1972 Olympic Trials: 400 m (4th)
1967 Pan-Am Games: 400 m (1st)

Education
high school: Overfelt (San Jose, California)
undergraduate: San Jose State (San Jose, California), 1970

Occupations
Coach

Norwood Barney Ewell

Inducted: 1986, athlete

Born: February 25, 1918 - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Deceased: April 4, 1996

Events
100 m - 10.20

While in high school, Barney Ewell won the U.S. junior sprint title before going on to an outstanding career at Penn State, winning back-to-back NCAA 100-200m titles in 1940 and 1941. He also won both sprints at the IC4A meet for three consecutive years, from 1940 to 1942. Between 1939 and 1948, Ewell won six national sprint titles, three in the 100 meters and three in the 200 meters. After World War II prompted the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Olympics, Ewell finally got his opportunity to compete in the 1948 Games, at age 30. At the 1948 AAU championships, which served as the Olympic trials, Ewell tied the world record of 10.2 in the 100-meter dash and arrived in London as favorite in that event. Running in the final of the 100 meters, he thought he had won, only to learn that he had lost in a photo finish to teammate Harrison Dillard. In the 200, Ewell had another close finish and again placed second, this time to teammate Mel Patton. He was added to the 4x100m relay when Ed Conwell became sick and the U.S. raced to an easy victory. However, the exchange between Ewell and Lorenzo Wright was ruled out of the zone and the U.S. was disqualified. The ruling was later reversed, and Barney Ewell finally had his Olympic gold medal. During his track and field career, Ewell also excelled in the long jump, winning the event three times at the IC4A outdoor meet (1940-1942); twice at the IC4A indoor meet (1940 and 1942); and twice at the AAU indoor meet (1944-1945).

Records Held
World Record: 100 m - 10.20 (July 9, 1948 - )

Championships
1948 Olympics: 100 m (2nd)
1948 Olympics: 200 m (2nd)
1948 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1944 AAU Indoors: Long Jump (1st)
1945 AAU Indoors: Long Jump (1st)
1948 AAU: 100 m - 10.20 (1st)
1940 NCAA: 100 m (1st)
1940 NCAA: 200 m (1st)
1941 NCAA: 100 m (1st)
1941 NCAA: 200 m (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Penn State (State College, Pennsylvania), 1947

Occupations
Electrical company worker

Ray Ewry

Inducted: 1974, athlete

Born: October 14, 1873 - Lafayette, Indiana
Deceased: September 29, 1937

Events
High Jump - 1.65 m
Long Jump - 3.47 m
Triple Jump - 10.58 m

No one in Olympic history won more gold medals than Ray Ewry, a former Purdue University athlete who accumulated his record total of 10 in four Olympiads. He won three golds apiece in 1900 and 1904 and two each in 1906 and 1908. All of them came in events no longer contested -- the standing long jump, standing high jump and standing triple jump. However, that should not detract from the impressiveness of his feat. Nicknamed "The Human Frog" for his incredible leaping ability, Ewry was a 15-time national champion in the standing events from 1898 to 1910. He undoubtedly would have earned more titles if the standing jumps had not been dropped from the AAU program for a six-year period. Confined to a wheelchair by polio when he was a boy, Ewry exercised his legs until he could walk, then increased their strength through his jumping regimen. In 1890, he entered Purdue University, where he played football and captained the track team. A hydraulics engineer by profession, he competed until he was almost 40; at age 39, he made a bid for the 1912 Olympic team but fell short. He was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983.

Records Held
World Record: Standing High Jump - 1.65 m (July 16, 1900 - )
World Record: Standing Long Jump - 3.47 m (September 3, 1904 - )

Championships
1900 Olympics: Standing High Jump (1st)
1900 Olympics: Standing Long Jump (1st)
1900 Olympics: Standing Triple Jump (1st)
1904 Olympics: Standing High Jump (1st)
1904 Olympics: Standing Long Jump (1st)
1904 Olympics: Standing Triple Jump (1st)
1906 Olympics: Standing High Jump (1st)
1906 Olympics: Standing Long Jump (1st)
1908 Olympics: Standing High Jump (1st)
1908 Olympics: Standing Long Jump (1st)

Education
undergraduate: Purdue (West Lafayette, Indiana), 1896

Occupations
Hydraulics engineer

Mae Faggs

Inducted: 1976, athlete

Born: April 10, 1932 - Mays Landing, New Jersey
Deceased: January 27, 2000

Events
100 yd. - 10.70
200 m - 24.20

A three-time Olympian, Heriwentha (Mae) Faggs was a gold medalist at the 1952 Olympics when she ran on the 4x100m relay team that set a world record of 45.9 Her running experience began at age 15 after she was recruited to run as a member of the New York City Police Athletic League. A year later, she qualified to represent the U.S. in the 200 meters at the London Olympics. After graduating from Bayside High School in New York, she became Hall of Fame coach Ed Temple's first recruited athlete at Tennessee State University. While running for the Tigerbelles, she qualified for her second Olympic team in both the 100 meters, in which she finished sixth, and the 200 meters, in which she failed to qualify for the final. She ran the lead-off leg on the world-record setting 4x100m relay team. At the 1956 Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the 4x100m relay. At the 1955 Pan-American Games, she was also a gold medalist in the 4x100m relay team and took a silver medal in the 200 meters. She won 11 National AAU titles, six of them in the indoor 220-yard sprint. After retiring, Faggs became a schoolteacher.

Records Held
World Record: 400 m relay - 45.90
American Record: 200 m - 24.20 (August 15, 1956 - )

Championships
1952 Olympics: 100 m (6th)
1952 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1956 Olympics: 400 m relay (3rd)
1955 Pan-Am Games: 200 m (2nd)
1955 Pan-Am Games: 400 m relay (1st)

Education
high school: Bayside (Bayside, New York)
undergraduate: Tennessee State (Nashville, Tennessee), 1956

Occupations
Teacher

Barbara Ferrell

Inducted: 1988, athlete

Born: July 28, 1947 - Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Events
100 m - 11.10

One of the world's top women sprinters in the late 1960s, Barbara Ferrell had her first major breakthrough in 1967 when she tied the world record of 11.1 for the 100m dash in winning the 1967 AAU national championship, won the gold medal in the 100m at the Pan American Games and was ranked number one in the U.S. in both the 100 and 200. In 1968, she tied her 100m world record in the semi-finals at the Olympic Games, then finished second in the final to Hall of Famer Wyomia Tyus. She also finished fourth in the 200 meters and was a member of the gold-medal winning 4x100m relay. Running for California State University and the Los Angeles Mercurettes, she was again ranked first in the U.S. at both 100 and 200 meters during 1969. That year, she won the national outdoor 100 and 220-yard dash at the outdoor national championships as well as the 60-yard dash and the rarely run 240-yard dash at the indoor championships. In 1972, she won the 100 meters at the Olympic trials but later was injured and failed to medal in the 100m or 200m dashes. She was an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles from 1968 to 1976 while pursuing a coaching career. She was head coach of the women's track and field team at the University of Southern California from 1992 to 1999 and in 2003 she became head coach of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas' track and cross country teams.

Records Held
World Record: 100 m - 11.10 (July 2, 1967 - )

Championships
1968 Olympics: 100 m (2nd)
1968 Olympics: 200 m (4th)
1968 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1972 Olympics: 100 m (7th)
1972 Olympics: 200 m (7th)
1967 AAU: 100 m - 11.10 (1st)
1969 AAU: 60 yd. (1st)
1969 AAU: 100 m (1st)
1969 AAU: 220 yd. (1st)
1969 AAU: 240 yd. (1st)
1967 Pan-Am Games: 100 m (1st)

Education
undergraduate: California State University at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California), 1969

Occupations
Teacher
Coach

Dan Ferris

Inducted: 1974, administrator

Born: November 12, 1889 - Pawling, New York
Deceased: May 2, 1977

A sprinter for the Irish-American A.C. in his competitive days, Daniel "Dan" Ferris joined the Amateur Athletic Union in 1907 as the personal secretary to another Hall of Famer, James Sullivan. When Sullivan stepped down in 1914, Ferris succeeded him as AAU secretary-treasurer and remained in the job for the next 43 years. Under his leadership, the AAU, which governed U.S. track and field during that period, thrived and instituted many programs that benefited the sport, including the Junior Olympics and the USA-USSR dual track meet series. Ferris attended every Olympic Games from 1912 through 1976, the year in which he stepped down from his post with the IAAF, the governing body of track and field.

Occupations
Track & field administrator

John Flanagan

Inducted: 1975, athlete

Born: January 9, 1873 - Kilbreedy, IR
Deceased: June 4, 1938

Events
Hammer Throw - 56.20 m

A native of Ireland, John Flanagan was one of the Irish-American "whales" who helped make the U.S. dominant in the weight events at the turn of the 20th century. Before emigrating to the United States in 1897, he set an unofficial world record of 147 feet in winning the 1896 British championship. Over the next decade, he improved his record several times, becoming the first to surpass 150 feet (in 1897), 160 feet (1899), 170 feet (1901) and 180 feet (1909). His final world record of 184' 4" was 37' 8" longer than his first and it made him the oldest athlete ever to break the world record in any track and field event. A three-time Olympian, he won gold medals in the hammer throw in 1900, 1904 and 1908 and silver medals in the 56-pound weight throw and the Tug of War. He also finished fourth in the discus in 1904. He was national AAU champion in the hammer throw from 1897 through 1899 and in 1901, 1902, 1906 and 1907. He also won the 56-pound weight competition five times. Like many of the great Irish-American weight throwers of his time, Flanagan became a New York City policeman. After retiring from the force in 1911, he returned to Ireland and coached two-time Olympic champion Dr. Patrick O'Callaghan.

Records Held
World Record: Hammer Throw - 56.18 m (July 24, 1909 - )

Championships
1900 Olympics: Hammer Throw (1st)
1904 Olympics: Hammer Throw (1st)
1904 Olympics: 56-pound Weight Throw (1st)
1904 Olympics: Discus Throw (4th)
1908 Olympics: Hammer Throw (1st)
1897 AAU: Hammer Throw (1st)
1898 AAU: Hammer Throw (1st)
1899 AAU: Hammer Throw (1st)
1901 AAU: Hammer Throw (1st)
1902 AAU: Hammer Throw (1st)
1906 AAU: Hammer Throw (1st)
1907 AAU: Hammer Throw (1st)

Occupations
Policeman

Dick Fosbury

Inducted: 1981, athlete

Born: March 6, 1947 - Portland, Oregon

Events
High Jump - 2.24 m

As a high schooler in Medford, Ore., Dick Fosbury revolutionized the high jump when he developed a new technique that quickly became known as "the Fosbury Flop." The technique worked so well that Fosbury improved by one foot in high school -- from 5' 3 3/4" to 6' 3 3/4" -- after he first tried the "flop," which involving going over the bar headfirst and backward, with one's body horizontal to the ground. Great things were in store for him. At Oregon State University, Fosbury first cleared 7' during the 1968 indoor season and became a surprise winner at the Mexico City Olympics by clearing 7' 4 1/4" for Olympic and American records. Fosbury's experiments began with him using the antiquated jump style called the "scissors," until his high school coach pressed him to use the "straddle," or "belly roll," which was then the high-jumping norm. Failing to master the straddle, Fosbury reverted to a scissors, then modified by going over the bar backward. The "flop" was born. A two-time national collegiate champion, Fosbury made his record jump in Mexico City on his third attempt. He was top ranked in the world following his 1968 victory and in 1969 won the NCAA title before placing second in the National AAU meet. After he failed to make the 1972 Olympic team, he became a professional in 1973. He was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1992. After several years of controversy over whether the "Fosbury Flop" was safe, it became the standard jumping technique worldwide. Fosbury often gave clinics for young athletes, in which he explained that the "flop" involved landing safely on one's shoulders, not one's neck, as was commonly feared.

Records Held
Olympic Record: High Jump - 2.24 m (October 20, 1968 - )
American Record: High Jump - 2.24 m (October 20, 1968 - )

Championships
1968 Olympics: High Jump - 2.24 m (1st)
1969 AAU: High Jump (2nd)
1969 NCAA: High Jump (1st)

Education
high school: Medford (Medford, Oregon), 1965
undergraduate: Oregon State (Corvallis, Oregon), 1969

Occupations
Engineer

Greg Foster

Inducted: 1998, athlete

Born: April 4, 1958 - Chicago, Illinois

Events
110 m hurdles - 13.03

Greg Foster was ranked among the top ten 110m hurdlers in the world 15 times, a record for a running event, and achieved the number-one ranking five times. He also won the first three World Outdoor Championships in the hurdles in 1983, 1987 and 1991. While at UCLA, Foster was a national collegiate champion in both the high hurdles and 200-meter dash. In 1979, he was world ranked in both events. After graduating from college in 1981, he won 10 national titles, both indoor and outdoor. The only major prize that eluded him was an Olympic gold medal. He came close in 1984, finishing second at the Los Angeles Games to Roger Kingdom of the U.S. In 1988, Foster broke his forearm prior to the Trials, competed nonetheless, but failed to gain a spot on the team. Four years later, at the 1992 Trials, he finished a non-qualifying fourth. Foster set world indoor hurdles records in 1986 and 1987. He was a member of 12 international teams, was the 1991 world indoor champion and the 1981 World Cup winner.

Championships
1984 Olympics: 110 m hurdles (2nd)
1983 World Outdoors: 110 m hurdles (1st)
1987 World Outdoors: 110 m hurdles (1st)
1991 World Indoors: 110 m hurdles (1st)
1991 World Outdoors: 110 m hurdles (1st)
1992 Olympic Trials: 110 m hurdles (4th)

Education
undergraduate: UCLA (Los Angeles, California), 1981

Bob Giegengack

Inducted: 1978, coach

Born: January 9, 1907 - Brooklyn, New York
Deceased: May 25, 1987

A college head track coach for 37 years, Bob Giegengack was the head coach of the 1964 U.S. Olympic team after serving as an assistant Olympic coach in 1956. His 1964 team won 20 medals, including 12 golds. Best known for producing outstanding middle distance runners, Giegengack was on the track team at Holy Cross College. After graduating in 1929, he coached track at the high school level for nine years. He took over at Fordham in 1938, becoming the youngest track coach at a major university. His 1941 team won the IC4A championship. After serving in the Navy, Giegengack returned to Fordham in 1945, before becoming track coach at Yale in 1946. He held that position until he retired in 1972. Giegengack guided Yale to four IC4A championships and a 186-121 record in dual and triangular meets. The Olympic athletes he coached included shot putter Jim Fuchs, sprinter Wendell Mottley and marathoner Frank Shorter, who is also in the Hall of Fame. Giegengack was very active on the U.S. Olympic Committee and twice served as chairman of that group's men's track and field committee.

Education
undergraduate: Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts), 1929

Occupations
Coach

Fortune Gordien

Inducted: 1979, athlete

Born: September 9, 1922 - Spokane, Washington
Deceased: April 10, 1990

Events
Discus Throw - 59.28 m

A veteran of three Olympic Games, Fortune Gordien dominated the discus throw for a decade during the late 1940s and early 1950s, improving the world record four times. While at the University of Minnesota, he won three national collegiate titles from 1946 through 1948. He was also AAU national discus champion six times, from 1947 through 1950 and again in 1953 and 1954. Gordien set his first world record in 1949 and improved it three times in a four-year period, capped by his throw of 194' 6" in 1953. This throw was the first to exceed 190' and continued to be the world record until 1959. The only feat that eluded him was winning an Olympic gold medal. He was third in 1948, fourth in 1952, and second (behind Hall of Famer Al Oerter) in 1956. Gordien was still throwing close to 190' at the age of 38 and threw in Masters competition at the age of 48 in 1971. He was also a world-class shot putter, finishing second in the national championships and third in the NCAA championships in 1947. A gifted amateur magician, Gordien later became a track coach and cattle rancher.

Records Held
World Record: Discus Throw - 59.28 m (August 22, 1953 - )

Championships
1948 Olympics: Discus Throw (3rd)
1952 Olympics: Discus Throw (4th)
1956 Olympics: Discus Throw (2nd)
1947 AAU: Discus Throw (1st)
1947 AAU: Shot Put (2nd)
1948 AAU: Discus Throw (1st)
1949 AAU: Discus Throw (1st)
1950 AAU: Discus Throw (1st)
1953 AAU: Discus Throw (1st)
1954 AAU: Discus Throw (1st)
1946 NCAA: Discus Throw (1st)
1947 NCAA: Discus Throw (1st)
1947 NCAA: Shot Put (3rd)
1948 NCAA: Discus Throw (1st)

Education
high school: Roosevelt (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1944
undergraduate: Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1948

Occupations
Track coach
Cattle rancher

Charles Greene

Inducted: 1992, athlete

Born: March 21, 1944 - Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Events
100 m - 9.90

An outstanding sprinter for O'Dea High School in Seattle (9.5 for 100 yards in 1963), Greene developed into one of the world's top sprinters in the 1960s. Competing for the University of Nebraska, the 5' 8", 148-pound Greene won six national collegiate titles (three indoors, three outdoors) from 1965 to 1967. Considered a sure bet to make the 1964 team, Greene suffered muscle pulls that held him to a sixth place at the Olympic Trials. By 1968, however, Greene was back and better than ever, setting world records in both the 100 yards and 100 meters. At the 1968 Championships in Sacramento, Greene, fellow Hall of Famer Jim Hines, and Ronnie Ray Smith all made track history by dipping under 10 seconds with times of 9.9 seconds in their semi-finals. Dubbed "the Night of Speed" for its brilliant performances, the competition was capped by Greene's victory in the finals. At the 1968 Olympic Games, Greene was again bothered by injuries and finished third in the 100. Despite the injury, he led off the U.S. 4x100m relay team that won the gold medal and set a world record of 38.2 seconds. Following his athletic career, Greene became a career Army officer, serving as sprint coach at West Point and head coach of the All-Army team. After retiring with the rank of major, he became a director for Special Olympics International and is still active in the sport.

Records Held
World Record: 100 m - 9.90 (June 20, 1968 - )

Championships
1968 Olympics: 100 m (3rd)
1968 Olympics: 400 m relay - 38.20 (1st)
1965 NCAA Indoors: 100 m (1st)
1965 NCAA Outdoors: 100 m (1st)
1966 NCAA Indoors: 100 m (1st)
1966 NCAA Outdoors: 100 m (1st)
1967 NCAA Indoors: 100 m (1st)
1967 NCAA Outdoors: 100 m (1st)

Education
high school: O'Dea (Seattle, Washington)
undergraduate: Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska), 1967

Occupations
U.S. Army officer
Coach
Director of Special Olympics

John Griffith

Inducted: 1979, administrator

Born: - Carroll, Illinois
Deceased: December 7, 1944

Career Highlights

• Griffith founded the Drake Relays in 1910.

Major John L. Griffith was appointed commissioner of what became known as the Big Ten Conference and for more than 20 years he helped to develop the conference into one of the finest in the U.S. A 1902 graduate of Beloit College in Wisconsin, Griffith six years later went to Drake University as athletic director, coach of the football and track team, and professor of history. In recognition of his various accomplishments, he was appointed Dean of Men in 1913. During this period, he founded the Drake Relays in 1910. The original event, held in a blizzard, attracted three universities and three high schools. Within five years, it was recognized as the third largest track and field event in the world, behind only the Penn Relays and the Olympic Games. After serving in World War I, he became head of the physical education program at the University of Illinois. While at Illinois in 1921, Griffith collaborated with famed football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg and Wisconsin track coach Tom Jones (also in the Hall of Fame) to help start the first NCAA outdoor championships. The meet was a success and formed the cornerstone for other NCAA championship events. From 1922 until his death in 1944, Griffith served as commissioner of the Big Ten Conference.

Education
undergraduate: Beloit College (Beloit, Wisconsin), 1902

Occupations
Track & field administrator
Coach
Professor

Florence Griffith Joyner

Inducted: 1995, athlete

Born: December 21, 1959 - Los Angeles, California
Deceased: September 21, 1998

Events
100 m - 10.49
200 m - 21.34

The nickname "Flo-Jo" has come to denote blazing speed, grace, flair and awesome talent. "Flo-Jo" is, of course, Florence Griffith Joyner, who was to the 1988 Olympic games what Wilma Rudolph was to the 1960 Rome Games. Even before the 1988 Olympics, Flo-Jo was a world record holder. Seoul merely confirmed her greatness. Her records set during those wild days of 1988 are standards that probably will prevail well into the 21st century. She still holds the women's world record of 10.49 for 100 meters and 21.34 for 200 meters and no one has come close to threatening them. Her 10.49 at the Olympic Trials in Indianapolis was one of the most eye-popping performances in track and field history. An outstanding sprinter before 1988, she showed her early promise at Jordan High School, where she anchored the relay team that posted the nation's fastest time of the year. After transferring from Cal State Northridge to UCLA, she won the NCAA 200m championship in 1982 and the 400m title in 1983. She was a silver medalist in the 200m at the 1984 Olympics and also medaled at the 1987 World Outdoor Championships, taking second in the 200 and running on the winning 4x100m relay team. At Seoul in 1988, she won three gold medals (100, 200, 4x100) and one silver (4x400), setting a world record in the 200. It was Flo-Jo's golden moment and it will be tough to repeat. She won the Sullivan Trophy in 1988. Flo-Jo married Al Joyner, 1984 Olympic triple jump champion, in 1987.

Records Held
World Record: 100 m - 10.49 (July 16, 1988 - )
World Record: 200 m - 21.34 (September 29, 1988 - )

Championships
1984 Olympics: 200 m (2nd)
1988 Olympics: 100 m (1st)
1988 Olympics: 200 m (1st)
1988 Olympics: 400 m relay (1st)
1988 Olympics: 1,600 m relay (2nd)
1987 World Outdoors: 200 m (2nd)
1987 World Outdoors: 400 m relay (1st)
1982 NCAA: 200 m (1st)
1983 NCAA: 400 m (1st)

Education
high school: Jordan (Los Angeles, California)
undergraduate: Cal State-Northridge (Northridge, California)
undergraduate: UCLA (Los Angeles, California), 1983

Occupations
Clothing designer

Archie Hahn

Inducted: 1983, athlete

Born: September 14, 1880 - Dodgeville, Wisconsin
Deceased: January 21, 1955

Events
100 yd. - 9.80
100 m - 11.00
200 m - 21.60

One of the world's top sprinters at the beginning of the 20th century, Archie Hahn was the first runner to win the Olympic 100m-200m sprint double. He took these titles, as well as the later-discontinued 60m dash, at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis. In the 200 meters, Hahn got an edge when all three of his competitors were pen