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1922 NCAA Men's Track And Field Championships
The 1922 NCAA Track and Field Championships was the second NCAA track and field championship. The event was held at Stagg Field in Chicago, Illinois in June 1922. The University of California won the team title, and nine NCAA records were set at the two-day meet. Overview The 1922 NCAA Track and Field Championships were held at Stagg Field in Chicago on June 16 and 17, 1923. The University of California won the team championship with 28-1/18 points. Penn State finished in second place with 19½ points. New NCAA records were set in nine events at the meet—100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, low hurdles, mile, broad jump, discus, hammer throw, javelin and pole vault. Team Result * (H) = Hosts Track events 100-yard dash 1. Leonard Paulu, Grinnell – 9.9 seconds (new NCAA record) 2. Hayes, Notre Dame 3. Erwin, Kansas Aggies 4. Eric Wilson, Iowa 5. Smith, Nebraska 120-yard high hurdles 1. Barron, Penn State – 15.4 seconds 2. Coow, Wesleyan Union 3. Ivey, Earlham 4. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penn Quakers Track And Field
The Penn Quakers are the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania. The school sponsors 33 varsity sports. The school has won three NCAA national championships in men's fencing and one in women's fencing. School colors There are several legends relating how "The Red and Blue" came to be used by the University of Pennsylvania. Whether they are fact or fiction remains unknown. # Harvard and Yale. In the early days of the university there was a race among the students of Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania. The Harvard team wore their famous crimson; Yale teams wore their traditional blue. When the Penn participants were asked which colors would represent their team, they replied that they would be wearing the colors of the two teams they would soon beat. The Penn athletes won the race, and Penn teams used those colors from then on. # George Washington's Clothing. It is rumored that George Washington visited the university during one of his terms as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Hoffman (athlete)
Howard Bostwick Hoffman (March 3, 1899 – February 2, 1975) was an American track and field athlete. He specialized in the javelin throw and, as a member of the Michigan Wolverines men's track and field team, he won the 1922 NCAA Championship in the event. He was posthumously inducted into the University of Michigan Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2012. Early years Hoffman was born in Michigan in 1899. His father, Harvey E. Hoffman, was a native of Michigan who was an osteopathic physician in Ludington, Michigan. His mother, Sadie Hoffman, was a native of New York. University of Michigan Hoffman enrolled at the University of Michigan where he studied medicine. While attending Michigan, he was a member of the Michigan Wolverines men's track and field team from 1920 to 1922. He was the 1922 NCAA Champion in the javelin throw with a distance of 202 feet, 3 inches. He was the first University of Michigan track and field athlete to win an individual NCAA championship. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lieb
Thomas John Lieb (October 28, 1899 – April 30, 1962) was an American Olympic Games, Olympic track and field athlete, an All-American college American football, football player and a multi-sport collegiate coach. Lieb was a Minnesota native and an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, where he played college football. He was best known as the head coach of the Loyola Marymount University and University of Florida football teams. College sports career Tom Lieb was born in Faribault, Minnesota in 1899. In high school, Lieb excelled at baseball, football, ice hockey, and track and field. He attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where he letterman (sports), lettered in all four sports and twice received All-American football honors. During the 1922 season, Lieb broke his leg in the game against Purdue Boilermakers football, Purdue. While doing his graduate studies at the university, he coached the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey, Notre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Landowski
John Stanley "Landie" Landowski was an American track and field athlete and football player. He specialized in the pole vault and also competed in the javelin throw. He won the 1922 NCAA Championship in the pole vault. Landowski was a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He enrolled at the University of Michigan's College of Literature Science and Arts where he competed in the pole vault and javelin throw for the Michigan Wolverines men's track and field team. He tied with Norris of the University of California for the 1922 NCAA Champion in the pole vault, with both athletes clearing a height of 12 feet, 6 inches. Landowski also won the Big Ten Conference championship and was selected as an All-American in 1922. He was the first University of Michigan track and field athlete to be recognized as an All-American. He also played college football as a halfback at Michigan. He won an aMa letter as a member of the 1921 Michigan Wolverines football team The 1921 Michigan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schuyler Enck
Schuyler Colfax "Sky" Enck (January 25, 1900 – November 1, 1970) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 800 metres. He competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France in the 800 metres where he won the bronze medal. See also * List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians The List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians is a list of former or current Penn State students (129) and coaches/faculty members (12) that have made an appearance as athletes or medaled at the Olympic Games, plus one athlete for the boycott ... References External links * 1900 births 1970 deaths American male middle-distance runners Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics {{US-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commodore Cochran
Commodore Shelton Cochran (January 20, 1902 – January 3, 1969) was an American athlete, winner of a gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Mississippi and died in San Francisco, California. As a Mississippi State University student, Commodore Cochran won the NCAA championships in 440-yard dash in 1922 and 1923. At the Paris Olympics, Cochran ran the opening leg in American 4 × 400 m relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 3.16.0. After his running career, Cochran coached his younger brother Roy Cochran, who won two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... References External linksprofile 1902 births 1969 deaths American male sprinters Athletes (tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brookins
Charles Robert Brookins (September 17, 1899 – August 15, 1960) was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa and died in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended the University of Iowa and ran track in college. 1923 and 1925 Brookins won the 220 yard low hurdles at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Per the 1971 IAAF World Athletics World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ... booklet, "Progressive World Record Lists" Brookins set the world record in the 220 yard low hurdles (straight) with a 23.2 (June 2, 1923) and 23.0 (May 17, 1924). In 1924, he was disqualified in the 400 metre hurdles final at the Paris Olympics. He finished second in this race but was disqualified when ran out of his lane. Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Wilson (athlete)
Eric Colquhoun Wilson (October 8, 1900 – July 2, 1985) was an American track and field athlete. He won the first NCAA championship in the 220-yard dash in 1921 and competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was the sports information director at the University of Iowa from 1923 to 1968. Biography Wilson was born in Iowa City, Iowa in 1900. He was the son of a professor at the University of Iowa. He enrolled at the University of Iowa and became one of the most accomplished athletes in the school's history. Wilson was a sprinter who won two NCAA championships and two Big Ten Conference championships while competing for the Iowa track team. Wilson's first NCAA championship came in 1921. He won the 220-yard dash at the first NCAA track and field championships in 1921 with a time of 22.6 seconds. At the 1922 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships, Wilson finished second in the 220-yard dash and fourth in the 100-yard dash. In 1923, Wilson won his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Paulu
Leonard Theodore Paulu (November 23, 1896 – May 29, 1988) was an American sprinter for Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Despite losing an eye and suffering serious injuries to his right leg and hip while serving in World War I, he won the 100-yard dash competition at the first two NCAA track and field championships in 1921 and 1922. He also won the 220 yard dash at the 1922 NCAA championships. Biography Early years Paulu was born in Vining, Iowa. He was the only son among the nine children of a Congregational preacher and Czech immigrant, Rev. Anton Paulu. He attended boarding school in Toledo, Iowa. Paulu later recalled that he worked for his room and board at the boarding school and lived in a room in the basement. He enrolled at Grinnell College in 1915. He struggled academically while working to pay for the cost of his education and dropped out of school, before completing his freshman year to work full-time. World War I When the United States entered World Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Miss Rebels Track And Field
The Ole Miss Rebels are the 18 men's and women's intercollegiate athletic teams that are funded by and represent the University of Mississippi, located in Oxford. The first was the football team, which began play in 1893. Originally known as the "Mississippi Flood", the teams were renamed the Rebels in 1936. They compete in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I, except for the rifle team, which participates in the Great America Rifle Conference because the SEC does not sponsor that sport. The school's colors are red ( PMS 186) and navy blue (PMS 2767), chosen to mirror the respective school colors of Harvard and Yale. The team's mascot is Tony the Landshark, which replaced the Rebel Black Bear in 2018, which replaced Colonel Reb in 2011. Between 1995 and 2004, 630 Ole Miss student-athletes received all-conference academic honors. Sports Football The Ole Miss Rebels football team represents the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgetown Hoyas Track And Field
The Georgetown Hoyas are the collegiate athletics teams that officially represent Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C. Georgetown's athletics department fields 23 men's and women's varsity level teams and competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as a member of the Big East Conference, with the exception of the Division I FCS Patriot League in football. In late 2012, Georgetown and six other Catholic, non-FBS schools announced that they were departing the Big East for a new conference. The rowing and sailing teams also participate in east coast conferences. The men's basketball team is the school's most famous and most successful program, but Hoyas have achieved success in a wide range of sports. The team name is derived from the mixed Greek and Latin chant "Hoya Saxa" (meaning "What Rocks"), which gained popularity at the school in the late nineteenth century. The name "Hoyas" came into use in the 1920s. Most teams have th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
