V 12 N. 88 Some Killer Photos

 The following photos came to us from Darryl Taylor, well the first five anyway.  These are out of his personal collection.  I've decided to include a bunch of others just for you to scroll through and remember some of these people.  Enjoy your holidays, however you choose to celebrate. and best wishes to all of you for 2023.  George Brose, Roy Mason, Jeff Allen, Paul O'Shea, Richard Mach, Darryl Taylor, and Bill Schnier.

Gerry Lindgren 103, Jim Grelle, directly behind Gerry, and

Joe Lynch Santa Monica TC

John Lawson 109

 Terry Thompson (Oregon St.) Tom Von Ruden (center)

NZ  (help ID please)

Bob Frey (former Cerritos JC, UCLA, and So Cal Striders)

Ulis Williams taking off

Ricardo Romo going the wrong way

Darryl Taylor  Long Beach State, yellow shorts, 

Ted Nelson partially hidden-Harris Williams closest to the camera-Greg Pelster-Steve Hass.

Dale Story (Oregon St) John Bork (Western MI) 

Jerome McFadden (Missouri) 4x1 mile) at Drake

Oklahoma State 4 x 880 WR

Dave Perry

Tom Von Ruden, James Metcalf, John Perry

 A FEW GOOD ENGLISH RUNNERS...BRUCE TULLOH LED THE FIRST 880--I WAS SECOND IN THE FINISH. #173 Ricardo Romo

John Whetten, Ricardo Romo, Alan Simpson in England

Tonni Coane, Kansas, Dave and John Perry, Oklahoma State, Walt Mizell, Oklahoma

880 Finals, Big 8, 1964

Bob Schul, West Milton HS,  Ohio about 1955

Bob Schul Tokyo 1964

Bob Schul, Oxford OH, Miami U.

Dyrol Burleson, Ernie Cunliffe in

first sub 4 in state of Oregon.  

Bill Nieder, at U. of Kansas before he became

famous as a shotputter

Harold and Olga Connolly

Jim Grelle, Lazlo Tabori, Bob Schul, Cordner Nelson

Jack Yerman hands off to Earl Young

Rome 1960

Statue of Harry Jerome

Vancouver, BC

Martin Lauer's Country and Western Album

NCAA Mile final 1962 in Eugene

LR Bill Dotson (Kansas), Paul Ebert (Oklahoma), Barry Almond (Houston)

Mike Fleming (Nebraska), Dyrol Burleson (Oregon), Bill Cornell (S. Illinois)

Peter Snell, 8 years old

Texas Relays 1962, leadoff leg, Mile relay

 

Freedom Hall Louisville, KY

220 yard indoor track, one of the fastest

Echo Summit, site of 1968 Olympic Trials

Glenn Davis

Louis Zampirini

Zatopek at Prague Spring 1968

Glenn Davis , Detroit Lions

L.A. Track Club XC team about 1963

Big 8 Mile about 1967

Traffic Jam at end of first lap

Bill Blewett won of our regular readers and contributors is on the pole for Oklahoma.

Dean Cromwell and Greta Garbo about 1927

Garbo with some Trojan admirers

Fortune Gordien

Real Spikes

Frank Covelli in Moscow 1963

photo by Jim Allen

Henry Carr and Ray Saddler in Moscow 1963

photo by Jim Allen

Abebe Bikila

Bikila after his spinal injury

Valeryi Brumel

Don Bragg and Arnie Sowell

Sir Murray Halberg

Morgan Groth in Moscow

photo by Jim Allen

Ted Corbitt

Rex Cawley

Gaston Roelants

Dear George:

I ran in the first two World Masters Track and Field Championships in 1975 in Toronto and 1977 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Gaston Roelants ran in Sweden.  He won the M40 5 K.  He  had let  his beard and hair grow and he looked like someone out of the Bible.  But he still could run.

Take care,

Tom Coyne

Jim Ryun

Ernie Cunliffe and Payton Jordan

George,

Thanks for this batch of memory ticklers.

Gerry Ashworth and I were ‘63 classmates at Dartmouth.  

In the picture across from Ernie Cunliffe, the runner on the left side does not resemble him.  Maybe someone can ID him.

Meantime, I’ll try checking with Gerry.

Warmest wishes for the Holidays,

Roy Benson

Dallas Long in Dental School

Rafer Johnson, Milt Campbell, Valery Kuznetzov

1952

Darryl Taylor, Tom Von Ruden, John Bork

Willie Nelson 'On the Road Again'

Really, he used to run road races around Austin.

FYI you can order this picture from the photographer for only $600.

Willie Nelson running race 1977 by Scott Newton

from $600.00

Willie Nelson, taken in 1977 during a running race by photographer Scott Newton from our exclusive collection, The Scott Newton Archive. 

Available as a signed, limited edition photographic print

Photographers notes: Willie Running Race (For Stehlin Foundation Cancer Benefit-Run For Your Life) outside the Austin Opry House entrance on Academy Drive, Austin TX. Having Willie own a large concert facility had certain spin-off benefits. We had events like this hard run around the hilly 14 acres. Willie definitely ran to his own drummer. What other country star ran? Name one... still thinking? As far as I know he still runs. 

  I'm not a real expert on T&F standouts of this era, but I knew everyone in the pictures.  Great collection!

   Brumel's quads are enormous.  Juice?

   Villanova is known as a distance school but had other WR holders:  Don Bragg (PV) and Irv Hall (120H) as well as silver medalist, Larry James (400).

   Greta Garbo was not especially cute.  Maybe she was better at running.

   The picture of Payton Jordan in Life magazine looked almost exactly like my father.  I kept a copy of the edition.

   When Bob Schul returned to Miami after training on the West Coast, he skipped the NCAA meet declaring a lack of competition.  In later life he said that was a mistake.  Bill Schnier