Bill Bowerman
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William Jay "Bill" Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was an American educator of competitive response and co-founder of Nike, Inc.
He coached 31 Olympic athletes, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions, and 16 sub-4 minute milers over his career.
He disliked being a coach, and the Ducks track and field team had a winning season every season, but one of them, who received four NCAA titles and finished in the top 10 in the country 16 times, and he disliked being called a coach.
He created some of Nike's most popular brands, including the Cortez and Waffle Racer, and helped with the company transition from being a manufacturer of other shoe brands to one that made their own shoes in house.
Early life
Bowerman's father, Jay, was born in Portland, Oregon; his mother, Elizabeth Hoover Bowerman, had grown up in Fossil. After the parents separated in 1913, the family returned to Fossil. Bowerman's older brother and sister, Dan and Mary Elizabeth "Beth"; and his twin brother, Thomas, who died in an elevator crash when he was two years old.
Bowerman attended Medford and Seattle schools before returning to Medford for high school. He competed in the high school band and for the state champion football team both as a youth and senior. Barbara Young, the woman he married as a high school student in Medford, was one of Bowerman's first encounters.
Bowerman, a 1929 graduate of the University of Oregon, studied journalism and football. Bill Hayward, a long-serving track coach, invited him to join the track team. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. He taught biology and coached football at Franklin High School in Portland, Oregon, after graduating. Bowerman returned to Medford, 1935, to teach and coach football, winning a state championship in 1940.
On June 22, 1936, Bowerman married Barbara Young. Jon, their first son, was born on June 22, 1938. William J. Bowerman, Jr. ("Jay") was born on November 17, 1942. Tom, their third son, was born on May 20, 1946.
Bowerman had served in the ROTC and Army Reserve before joining the United States Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the days immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack. He was sent to Fort Lawton in Washington and spent a year there before being sent to Camp Hale, Colorado, in the 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment. He was in the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, and the regiment became part of the 10th Mountain Division.
The bowerman's job required arranging the troops' supplies and storing the mules used to transport the troops in the mountains. The division first appeared in Naples, Italy, on December 23, 1944, and soon migrated north to the mountains of northern Italy. Bowerman was promoted to the captain of the 86th Regiment's First Battalion during his tour of service. In the days leading up to the German army's surrender in Italy, Bowerman arranged a stand-down of German forces near the Brenner Pass. Bowerman was given the Silver Star and four Bronze Stars for his service. In October 1945, he was honorably discharged.
Coaching career
Bowerman returned to Medford High School after the war. The family then moved to Eugene, where he became the head track coach at his alma mater, the University of Oregon, on July 1, 1948.
"Men of Oregon" by Bowerman captured 24 NCAA individual titles (with victories in 15 of the 19 events contested) and four NCAA team titles (1962, 1964, 1965, and 1970), with 16 top-ten NCAA finishes in 24 years as head coach. His teams also boasted 33 Olympians, 38 conference champions, and 64 All-Americans. The Ducks posted a 114-20 record and went undefeated in ten seasons as a dual champion. In addition, Bowerman coached the world record-breaking 4-mile (6.4 km) relay team in 1962. Archie San Romani, Dyrol Burleson, Vic Reeve, and Keith Forman were all members of this team, who reached their maximum time of 16:08.9. Two years later, the Roscoe Divine, Wade Bell, Arne Kvalheim, and Dave Wilborn team from Oregon threw the record to 16:05.0. Otis Davis, Steve Prefontaine, Kenny Moore, Bill Dellinger, Mac Wilkins, Dyrol Burleson, Harry Jerome, Gilbert Jerome, Les Tipton, Dave Moro, Wade Bell, Richard Kvalheim, Jim Grelle, Bruce Mortenson, and Mel Renfro are among Bowerman's clients. Renfro, a track and football All-American, spent a lucrative NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Bowerman disliked being called a mentor; he saw himself as more of a mentor. He hoped his kids to do well in the classroom and encouraged his students to use the lessons they learned in their everyday lives.
Bowerman moved from day-to-day coaching to fundraise for restoring the Hayward Field grandstands, which would be crucial for the consideration of staging the Olympic Trials in 1976. He unsuccessfully sought a seat in the Oregon Legislature in 1970 as a Republican, losing by only 815 votes out of 61,000 candidates.
Bowerman officially resigned as head coach on March 23, 1973, and assistant coach Bill Dellinger was immediately promoted.
Bowerman developed a preparation scheme for athletes who would be competing at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games in high altitude. Despite the fact that American miler favorite Jim Ryun lost to Kenyan Kip Keino citing altitude as a cause for the disoster, his participation resulted in his appointment as the 1972 Munich Olympic track and field head coaching position, which led to his selection as the 1972 Munich Olympic track and field head coach, citing altitude as the cause for the shock. Bowerman has worked with teams from Norway, Canada, Australia, and the United States.
During the Munich Massacre in West Germany, where Bowerman was regularly blamed for the PLO's poor results, Israeli race walker Shaul Ladany emerged from the PLO's wretched course, despite being alerted by the West German police. Bowerman sent the US consulate to shield the US Olympic site from being attacked by two Jewish athletes: swimmer Mark Spitz and javelin thrower Bill Schmidt.