The photo shows Dick Fosbury winning the PAC-8 Championship in the high jump in his sophomore season at Oregon State University. His winning height was 6 feet 9 inches. The PAC-8 meet was in Eugene, Oregon at the University of Oregon.
Dick Fosbury, of Medford and Oregon State University, is shown winning the 1968 Olympic High Jump in Mexico City in a new Olympic Games and American record of 7 feet 4 and 1/4th inches. The games were in the summer of 1968 and Fosbury was between his junior and senior year at Oregon State University.
The high jump results are shown on the scoreboard at the 1968 Olympics held in Mexico at the Stadio Olympico. First place was won by Dick Fosbury from Medford, Oregon (Oregon State University alumni) with an American and Olympic Games high jump record of 7 feet 4 1/4 inches.
