Aitken was participating in the Waldo Girls versus Town Girls track and field meet. This competition was a precursor to OSU's intramural sports program, which began in 1916.
Dodge attended OAC in the early 1920s. He participated in the 1924 Olympics, where he finished 6th in the men's 800 metres, and the 1925 Pan American Games. He also ran for the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club.
The team included (from left) Kris Trom, Karen Brown, Julia Anderson, Janet Lovelace and Jenny Bird. Lovelace placed fifth at the regionals in 1977 and twenty-sixth at the AIWA championships in 1978.
Wagner coached both OSU athletes at the Pan American games in Mexico City, where they both won gold medals. He coached at OSU from 1966 to 1975, compiling a dual meet record of 49-24. He led OSU to four top six finishes at the NCAA Championships, where the 1969 squad finished second. Nine of his athletes won individual NCAA titles, and fifteen athletes won twenty-three All-American honors. Tom Woods was a four-time All-American in the high jump and captured the 1972 NCAA title. Huntley competed at OSU in 1975 and participated on two U.S. Olympic teams. In the early 1970s, OSU was called the “high jump capital of the world” by some sportswriters due to the success of Dick Fosbury, Woods, Huntley and other Beaver high jumpers.
Dick Fosbury attended OSU from 1965-1969 and is remembered today as the inventor of the "Fosbury Flop" high jump technique. He won two national championships and an Olympic gold medal while revolutionizing the sport with his innovative approach to jumping higher.
Dickey won the pole vault at the NCAA Championships, clearing 13 feet, 9 inches. He won the PCC Northern Division title in 1951 and was the PCC co-champ in 1952.
Huntley competed for OSU in 1975, and later competed for the United States national team in the 1976 and 1984 Olympics, winning a bronze medal in 1984. She was ranked the no. 1 female high jumper in the United States five times. She also served as an assistant track and field coach for OSU in 1981.
Story led the OSU cross-country team to the 1961 NCAA championship – OSU’s first team national championship. He was also the individual medalist, defeating six future Olympians while running barefoot (his trademark style) in subfreezing conditions. Story also ran track as a long distance runner, and earned All-American honors in Spring 1962 in the three-mile run. This photo appeared in the April 1962 Oregon Stater.
Kelly makes use of the straddle technique used by many high jumpers prior to the full implementation of the Fosbury Flop, created and popularized by Kelly's teammate, Dick Fosbury.
This is the cover of the 1963 Spring Sports Guide featuring baseball player and coach Cecil Ira and Ralph Coleman. The cover also shows Norm Hoffman (track).
R. S. Keene, Director of Athletics; Knute Rochne; Paul Shuber; M. H. "Dad" Butler, track coach; Robert Hager, Basketball coach; Ralph Coleman, Baseball coach. This picture is from some time between 1925-1928
Norm Monroe discusses growing up in Washington D.C. and his early experiences with sports; moving to California to attend Compton Junior College and join the track team and later being recruited by the Oregon State University track team; his experiences at OSU as an athlete, for both track and basketball, as a student, as well as a newcomer to Corvallis during the early 1960s; his return to Washington D.C. and working at a hospital morgue and later at the National History Museum; his journey back to Oregon and residence in Lake Oswego with a job with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration; and his personal and professional experiences with Mental Health. Related Materials: OSU Basketball Desegregation Event http://wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu/oregon-multicultural-archives/2011/09/27/basketball-desegregation-event/
Alumnus Everett H. Davis graduated from OSAC in 1934 with an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Engineering. He played on the OSAC football, basketball, and track teams.
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.
Dick Fosbury is shown at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico competing in the high jump. He won with a jump of 7 feet 4 1/4 inches. Photo was used in the 1969 Beaver, p. 220-221.
Dick Fosbury is shown at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico competing in the high jump. He won with a jump of 7 feet 4 1/4 inches. Photo was used in the 1969 Beaver, p. 220-221.