Born December 11, 1863, Boston, Mass. Died May 21, 1955.

John "Jack" Moakley became Cornell's first full-time track coach in 1899 and served in that position for 50 years before retiring in 1949. During that span, his Cornell teams won 29 IC4A championships, including 10 outdoors, two indoors and 17 in cross country. Moakley's most famous pupil was John Paul Jones, who held theworld one-mile record from 1913 to 1915 and was a 1912 Olympian. He also developed a number of other Olympians, including gold medalists John Anderson (discus, 1932), Henry Russell (4x100 relay, 1928) and Frank Foss (pole vault, 1920). In 1920, he coached the U.S. Olympic team to a highly successful showing. His early coaching career included stops at Tufts, Brown, Maine and Wisconsin. As an athlete, he was one of the best hurdlers of his time, competing for Boston Latin School and Harvard. He earned the nickname "Miracle Man" for his coaching skills at Cornell.