Research Catalog

Title

Bowerman and the men of Oregon : the story of Oregon's legendary coach and Nike's cofounder / Kenny Moore.

Author

Moore, Kenny, 1943-

Publication

[Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale : Distributed to the book trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2006.

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Details

Description

xvi, 432 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• No man has affected more runners in more ways than Bill Bowerman. During his 24-year tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon, he won four national team titles and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. He also ignited the jogging boom, invented the waffle-sole running shoe that helped establish Nike, and coached the US track and field team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. With the full cooperation of the Bowerman family and Nike, plus years of taped interviews with friends, relatives, students, and competitors, two-time Olympic marathoner Kenny Moore -- himself one of Bowerman's champion athletes -- brilliantly re-creates the legendary track coach's life. - Publisher.
• Examines the life and work of the famous track coach, including his team titles and record feats at the University of Oregon, his role in the 1972 Olympics, his founding of Nike, and his relationship with runner Steve Prefontaine.

Subject

• Bowerman, William J
• University of Oregon > Track and field
• Nike (Firm) > History
• Track and field coaches > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

That wild yearning -- Lizzie and the governor -- Wild Bill meets a mule skinner -- Barbara -- The University of Oregon -- Bill Hayward -- Medford -- The tenth mountain division -- First principles -- A friend, a son, a community -- A dynasty begins -- Rome -- Innovation -- The 1962 season -- The AAU dictatorship -- Jogging -- The birth of BRS -- Tokyo -- A curious mind -- Rites of passage -- Lessons inserted -- Mexico City -- Enter, Prefontaine -- BRS becomes Nike -- Munich -- Transit and sorrow -- Legacy -- Rajneeshpuram -- Builderman -- Immortal messages.

ISBN

• 1594861900 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 9781594861901

LCCN

^^2005035749

OCLC

• 62615881
• SCSB-12890551

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library