Bowerman and the Men of Oregon The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder

by Moore, Kenny

• ISBN13: 9781594867316
• ISBN10: 1594867313
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-04
• Publisher: Rodale Books

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.

Author Biography

KENNY MOORE, who trained with Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon, is a two-time Olympic marathoner and former senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He cowrote and coproduced teh movie Without Limits, based on the life and tragic early death of Hall of Fame runner Steve Prefontaine. Moore lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Men of Oregon	p. 1
That Wild Yearning	p. 9
Lizzie and the Governor	p. 17
Wild Bill Meets a Mule Skinner	p. 25
Barbara	p. 32
The University of Oregon	p. 41
Bill Hayward	p. 49
Medford	p. 61
The Tenth Mountain Division	p. 68
First Principles	p. 82
A Friend, a Son, a Community	p. 98
A Dynasty Begins	p. 105
Rome	p. 114
Innovation	p. 123
The 1962 Season	p. 131
The AAU Dictatorship	p. 140
Jogging	p. 146
The Birth of BRS	p. 156
Tokyo	p. 161
A curious Mind	p. 181
Rites of Passage	p. 187
Lessons Inserted	p. 203
Mexico City	p. 214
Enter, Prefontaine	p. 234
BRS Become Nike	p. 257
Munich	p. 273
Transit and Sorrow	p. 305
Legacy	p. 331
Rajneeshpuram	p. 369
Builderman	p. 380
Immortal Messages	p. 399
Index	p. 418
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