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[ Monday, November 27, 2006 15:48 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Bill Bowerman & the Men of Oregon

Section:

Book Reviews

Summary:

Bill Bowerman of Oregon, Nike and the University of Oregon was an original.  He and his track athletes are the stuff of a good sport story as researched and written by one of his “Tigers” , Ken Moore,  long time track and field writer for Sports Illustrated and other publications.  By the standards of his time Bowerman was a bootstrap guy with pride, character and respect for the price of extending the limits of individual talent through intelligence, preparation and perseverance.

Main:

Bill was from Oregon pioneer stock.  He was born and died in the dry eastern Oregon ranching community of Fossil near the John Day River, raided cattle and used earthy cowboy metaphors as attention device .  His father died early.

  Public schooling included Portland and Medford.  He pledged “Beta” at Oregon where he played basketball,  started on the football team, ran the 440 and graduated with a degree in Business Administration.  He served with the 10th Mountain Division, learned to ski and returned from WW ll to marry and return to the Rogue Valley as a teacher and coach at Medford High School .

There, Bill and his wife formed a lifelong friendship with the family of lawyer, Otto Frohnmayer. father of the current President and twelve year verteran of the University of Oregon, former Attorney General and Law School Dean, David Frohnmayer. of Medford, Harvard, Oxford and UCB Boalt School of Law.



After replacing Bill Hayward as the Oregon track coach, Bill started building his own record, coaching style and reputation.

Examples:

* For his intelligence, he won the respect of the campus academic community. His track teams consistently led all other mens sports and living groups when the Daily Emerald published the quarterly grade rankings.

* His student athletes were enrolled, converted, trained and graduated.  They were not heavily recruited.

*  Local volunteers and friends efficiently, manned and managed the well attended meets at Hayward Field. The result is the Oregon Track Club.

*  Bill learned and borrowed from the best of his distance runner coaching peers from around the world, including Arthur Lydiard of New Zealand.

*  His coaching style was personal and individualized.  Like Len Casanova, head fooball coach, he was in coat and tie on meet day, but hewas always “Bill” to his athletes.

* He was cool,confident, and in control of his emotions and his team during meets.

* He was a showman and Hayward Field was his stage for his production of the meet of the moment.

BTW: Eugene, the UofO, the Athletic Department, and Hayward Field will host the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trails in 2008 prior to Bejing. In addition, Andrew Shipley, an Oregon triathlete and club tennis player has been named as one of this year’s class of 32 American Rhodes Scholars. 

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