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Bill Bowerman

William Jay Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc.[1] Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers.[2]

Bill Bowerman
Born
William Jay Bowerman

(1911-02-19)February 19, 1911
DiedDecember 24, 1999(1999-12-24) (aged 88)
Alma materUniversity of Oregon
Occupation(s)Coach
Co-founder of Nike, Inc.
Spouse
Barbara Young Bowerman
(m. 1936)
ChildrenJon Bowerman
William J. "Jay" Bowerman, Jr.
Thomas Bowerman
ParentJay Bowerman
Military career
Allegiance United States
Service/branch U.S. Army
Years of service1942–1945
RankMajor
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsSilver Star
Bronze Star (4)
Websitehttps://www.nike.com/

Bowerman disliked being called a coach, and during his 24 years at the University of Oregon, the Ducks track and field team had a winning season every year but one, attained 4 NCAA titles, and finished in the top 10 in the nation sixteen times. As co-founder of Nike, he invented some of their top brands, including the Cortez and Waffle Racer, and assisted in the company moving from being a distributor of other shoe brands to one creating their own shoes in house.

Early life

Born in Portland, Oregon, Bowerman's father Jay was a former governor;[3] his mother, Elizabeth Hoover Bowerman, had grown up in Fossil. The family returned to Fossil after the parents divorced in 1913. Bowerman had an older brother and sister, Dan and Mary Elizabeth "Beth"; and a twin brother, Thomas, who died in an elevator accident when he was two years old.

Bowerman attended Medford and Seattle schools before returning to Medford for high school. He played in the high school band and for the state champion football team his junior and senior years. Bowerman first met Barbara Young, the woman he married, while a high school student in Medford.[4]

In 1929, Bowerman attended the University of Oregon to play football and study journalism. At the suggestion of longtime track coach Bill Hayward, he also joined the track team. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. After graduating, he taught biology and coached football at Franklin High School in Portland in 1934. In 1935, Bowerman moved back to Medford to teach and coach football during which won a state title in 1940.[4]

Bowerman married Barbara Young on June 22, 1936. Their first son, Jon, was born June 22, 1938. William J. Bowerman, Jr. ("Jay") was born November 17, 1942. Their third son, Tom, was born May 20, 1946.

Military career

Bowerman had been in the ROTC and Army Reserve, and then joined the United States Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the days following the Pearl Harbor attack. He was assigned to Fort Lawton in Washington and served a year there before being assigned to the 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment at Camp Hale in Leadville, Colorado. He was in the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, the regiment became apart of the 10th Mountain Division.[5]

Bowerman's duty entailed organizing the troops' supplies and maintaining the mules used to carry the supplies in the mountains. On December 23, 1944, the division arrived in Naples, Italy and soon moved north to the mountains of northern Italy.[6] During his tour of duty, Bowerman was promoted to commander of the 86th Regiment's First Battalion at the rank of Major.[7] Bowerman negotiated a stand-down of German forces near the Brenner Pass in the days before the surrender of the German army in all of Italy.[8] For his service, Bowerman received the Silver Star and four Bronze Stars. He was honorably discharged in October 1945.[9]

Coaching career

After the war, Bowerman returned to his position at Medford High School. 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.

University of Oregon

Bowerman's "Men of Oregon" won 24 NCAA individual titles (with wins in 15 of the 19 events contested) and four NCAA team crowns (1962, 1964, 1965, and 1970), and posted 16 top-10 NCAA finishes in 24 years as head coach. His teams also boasted 33 Olympians, 38 conference champions and 64 All-Americans. At the dual level, the Ducks posted a 114–20 record and went undefeated in 10 seasons. In addition, Bowerman coached the world record setting 4-mile (6.4 km) relay team in 1962. This team consisted of Archie San Romani, Dyrol Burleson, Vic Reeve, and Keith Forman with a time of 16:08.9. Six years later, another Oregon team of Roscoe Divine, Wade Bell, Arne Kvalheim and Dave Wilborn improved the record to 16:05.0.[10] Among athletes that Bowerman coached are: Otis Davis, Steve Prefontaine, Kenny Moore, Bill Dellinger, Mac Wilkins, Jack Hutchins, Dyrol Burleson, Harry Jerome, Sig Ohlemann, Les Tipton, Gerry Moro, Wade Bell, Dave Edstrom, Roscoe Divine, Matt Centrowitz, Arne Kvalheim, Jim Grelle, Bruce Mortenson, Phil Knight and Mel Renfro. Renfro was a track and football All-American, had a successful NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Bowerman disliked being called a coach; he saw himself as more of a teacher. He expected his squad to excel in the classroom, and urged his charges to apply the lessons they learned on the track to everyday life.[11][4]

In 1972, Bowerman stepped back from day-to-day coaching activities to conduct fundraising for renovating the Hayward Field grandstands that would be necessary for the consideration of hosting the U.S. Olympic Trials again in 1976. He also ran unsuccessfully for a House[12] seat in the Oregon Legislature in 1970 as a Republican,[3] losing by only 815 votes out of 61,000 cast.[12]

Bowerman officially retired as head coach on March 23, 1973, and assistant coach Bill Dellinger was immediately promoted.[13][14][15]

United States Olympic Track program

Bowerman created a training program for adjusting athletes for the high altitude that they would experience at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. This successful program led to his selection as the 1972 Munich Olympic track and field head coaching position, even though American miler favorite Jim Ryun lost to Kenyan Kip Keino, citing altitude as part of the reason for this upset. Bowerman coached members of teams from Norway, Canada, Australia, and the United States.

During the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympics in West Germany, where Bowerman was frequently blamed for a dismal performance by the U.S. track team, Israeli race walker Shaul Ladany escaped the PLO terrorists, and then awakened Bowerman and alerted the West German police. Bowerman called the U.S. consulate for a detachment of Marines to protect the U.S. Olympic compound, in which lived two high-profile Jewish athletes: swimmer Mark Spitz and javelin thrower Bill Schmidt.[16]

Running

During a trip to New Zealand in 1962, Bowerman was introduced to the concept of running as a fitness routine, including people of an advanced age, through a running club organized by his friend and coaching colleague Arthur Lydiard. Bowerman brought this concept back to the United States, and began to write articles and books about running. He also created a running program in Eugene that became a national model for fitness programs. A Jogger's Manual, a three-page guide, was published shortly after Bowerman returned from New Zealand. In 1966, along with cardiologist W.E. Harris, Bowerman published a 90-page book titled Jogging. The book sold over a million copies and was credited with igniting the jogging phenomenon in the United States. The new crop of older athletic people contributed to the evolution of the sport of track and field to create a new division for these masters athletes. Due to the popularity of Jogging, Harris and Bowerman published a 127-page book in 1967.

Athletics West is an American running team formed by Bill Bowerman, Phil Knight and Geoff Hollister in 1977. At the time, America had no definitive running program for young athletes to continue competing outside of college. The formation and success of Athletics West, together with the success and popularity of American runners like Craig Virgin (charter member), Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers helped inspire the 1970s running boom.[citation needed]

Nike

 
Bowerman (left) conversing with Phil Knight and two other members of the Oregon track team in 1958

According to Otis Davis, a student athlete who Bowerman coached at the University of Oregon, who later went on to win two gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics, he was one of the guinea pigs for whom Bowerman customized shoes prior to being a cofounder of Nike. Davis states ‘I didn't like the way they felt on my feet. There was no support and they were too tight. But I saw Bowerman make them from the waffle iron, and they were mine."[17]

In 1964, Bowerman entered into a handshake agreement with Phil Knight, who had been a miler under him in the 1950s, to start an athletic footwear distribution company called Blue Ribbon Sports, later known as Nike, Inc. Knight managed the business end of the partnership, while Bowerman experimented with improvements in athletic footwear design. Bowerman stayed in Eugene, keeping his coaching job at the University of Oregon, while Knight operated the main office from Portland. Bowerman and Knight initially began importing the Onitsuka Tiger running shoes from Japan to sell in the United States. Initially, the partnership was 50-50, but shortly afterwards Bowerman wanted it changed to 51–49, with Knight having the higher ownership. He did this to avoid potential gridlock and have one of them be in charge of final decisions.

 
Nike Waffle Trainer

Bowerman's design ideas led to the creation of a running shoe in 1966 that was ultimately named "Nike Cortez" in 1968, which quickly became a top-seller and remains one of Nike's most iconic footwear designs. Bowerman designed several Nike shoes, but is best known for ruining his wife's Belgian waffle iron in 1970 or 1971, experimenting with the idea of using waffle-ironed rubber to create a new sole for footwear that would grip but be lightweight.[18] Bowerman's design inspiration led to the introduction of the so-called "Moon Shoe" in 1972, so named because the waffle tread was said to resemble the footprints left by astronauts on the moon. Further refinement resulted in the "Waffle Trainer" in 1974, which helped fuel the explosive growth of Blue Ribbon Sports/Nike. While Bowerman was experimenting with shoe design, he worked in a small, unventilated space, using glue and solvents with toxic components that caused him severe nerve damage. The nerve damage to his lower legs left him with significant mobility problems; as Kenny Moore notes in his book Bowerman and the Men of Oregon, Bowerman had rendered himself unable to run in the shoes that he had given the world.[19]

Bowerman was obsessed with shaving weight off his athletes' running shoes. He believed that custom-made shoes would weigh less on the feet of his runners and cut down on blisters, as well as reduce the overall drag on their energy for every ounce he could remove from the shoe. By his estimation, removing one ounce (28 g) from a shoe, based on a six-foot gait for a runner, would translate in a reduction of 55 pounds (25 kg) of lift over a one-mile (1.6 km) span.

Knight once said of Bowerman's importance to the company, "If coach (Bowerman) isn't happy, Nike isn't happy."[20]

Bowerman reduced his role with the company in the late 1970s and began passing down his stake in the company to other employees shortly before the IPO launched.[citation needed]

Legacy

Bowerman is a member of the National Distance Running Hall of Fame, the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame, the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame, Oregon's Athletic Hall of Fame, the RRCA Distance Running Hall of Fame, and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His statue and stopwatch grace the northwest corner of Hayward Field, home of the Prefontaine Classic at the University of Oregon. A biographical film, Without Limits, about the relationship between record-breaking distance runner Steve Prefontaine and his coach Bill Bowerman was made in 1998, and Bill Bowerman was played by Donald Sutherland. The headquarters for Nike is located on Bowerman Drive in homage to the company's co-founder. Also in his honor, the company created the "Bowerman Series" of performance running shoes, designed to provide longer-lasting, more training-focused products to compete with such running brands as Asics and Saucony.

In 2009, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association created The Bowerman, an award that is given to the most outstanding collegiate male and female track & field athlete in a given calendar year.[21] Inaugural winners of the award were Oregon's Galen Rupp and Colorado's Jenny Barringer.[22] The Bowerman trophy was designed by Tinker Hatfield, a Nike employee and former Oregon student-athlete coached by Bowerman.[23]

Death

In declining health in late 1999, Bowerman died at age 88 at his home at an assisted care facility in Fossil, Oregon.[1][24]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Conrad, John (December 26, 1999). "Track pioneer dead at age 88". Eugene Register-Guard. p. 1A.
  2. ^ Capozzi, Rick (2017). The Growth Mindset: Leadership Makes a Difference in Wealth Management. John Wiley & Sons. p. 51. ISBN 9781119421979.
  3. ^ a b Gallagher, Bill (June 2006). "Bowerman: The man, the legend and the new biography by Kenny Moore". Brainstorm NW.
  4. ^ a b c . Archived from the original on January 8, 2011. Retrieved February 7, 2011.
  5. ^ Moore, p. 67-68
  6. ^ Moore, p. 71
  7. ^ Moore, p. 77
  8. ^ Moore, p. 78-79
  9. ^ Moore, p. 81
  10. ^ "Does the U.S. 4xMile record belong in Eugene? The Ducks say: Absolutely. Track news, notes & links". oregonlive.com. April 9, 2009.
  11. ^ Putnam, Pat (June 15, 1970). "The Freshman And The Great Guru". Sports Illustrated. 32 (24). Retrieved March 2, 2011.
  12. ^ a b "Poll check adds 1 vote" [election vote recount] (December 15, 1970). The Oregonian, p. 18.
  13. ^ Newnham, Blaine (March 24, 1973). "Bowerman retires; Dellinger takes helm". Eugene Register-Guard. p. 1B.
  14. ^ "Oregon's Bill Bowerman resigns as track coach". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. March 24, 1973. p. 9.
  15. ^ "Bill Bowerman retiring; Bill Dellinger to take post". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. March 24, 1973. p. 11.
  16. ^ Moore, Kenny (April 2006). Leading Men. Runner's World. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  17. ^ Hague, Jim (May 14, 2006). . The Hudson Reporter. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  18. ^ Blitz, Matt (July 15, 2016). "How a Dirty Old Waffle Iron Became Nike's Holy Grail". Popular Mechanics July 15, 2016. Popular Mechanics. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
  19. ^ Moore, p. 383ff
  20. ^ Phil Knight (2016). "Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike"
  21. ^ "USTFCCCA Announces the Inception of The Bowerman". USTFCCCA. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  22. ^ Lewis, Tom. "Rupp, Barringer Honored as Inaugural Winners of The Bowerman". Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  23. ^ "The Bowerman: Trophy Design". Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  24. ^ Shoe Dog

Sources

  • Moore, Kenny (2006). Bowerman and the Men of Oregon. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale. ISBN 978-1-59486-190-1.
  • Bowerman, William J (1991). High-performance training for track and field. Champaign, Ill.: Leisure Press. ISBN 0-88011-390-1.
  • Freeman, William H. (1972). A biographical study of William Jay Bowerman.
  • Greenberg, Keith (1994). Bill Bowerman & Phil Knight: Building the Nike Empire. Blackbirch Press. ISBN 978-1-56711-085-2.

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William Jay Bowerman February 19 1911 December 24 1999 was an American track and field coach and co founder of Nike Inc 1 Over his career he trained 31 Olympic athletes 51 All Americans 12 American record holders 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub 4 minute milers 2 Bill BowermanBornWilliam Jay Bowerman 1911 02 19 February 19 1911Portland Oregon U S DiedDecember 24 1999 1999 12 24 aged 88 Fossil Oregon U S Alma materUniversity of OregonOccupation s CoachCo founder of Nike Inc SpouseBarbara Young Bowerman m 1936 wbr ChildrenJon Bowerman William J Jay Bowerman Jr Thomas BowermanParentJay BowermanMilitary careerAllegiance United StatesService wbr branch U S ArmyYears of service1942 1945RankMajorBattles warsWorld War IIAwardsSilver StarBronze Star 4 Websitehttps www nike com Bowerman disliked being called a coach and during his 24 years at the University of Oregon the Ducks track and field team had a winning season every year but one attained 4 NCAA titles and finished in the top 10 in the nation sixteen times As co founder of Nike he invented some of their top brands including the Cortez and Waffle Racer and assisted in the company moving from being a distributor of other shoe brands to one creating their own shoes in house Contents 1 Early life 1 1 Military career 2 Coaching career 2 1 University of Oregon 2 2 United States Olympic Track program 3 Running 4 Nike 5 Legacy 6 Death 7 See also 8 References 9 Sources 10 External linksEarly life EditBorn in Portland Oregon Bowerman s father Jay was a former governor 3 his mother Elizabeth Hoover Bowerman had grown up in Fossil The family returned to Fossil after the parents divorced in 1913 Bowerman had an older brother and sister Dan and Mary Elizabeth Beth and a twin brother Thomas who died in an elevator accident when he was two years old Bowerman attended Medford and Seattle schools before returning to Medford for high school He played in the high school band and for the state champion football team his junior and senior years Bowerman first met Barbara Young the woman he married while a high school student in Medford 4 In 1929 Bowerman attended the University of Oregon to play football and study journalism At the suggestion of longtime track coach Bill Hayward he also joined the track team He was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity After graduating he taught biology and coached football at Franklin High School in Portland in 1934 In 1935 Bowerman moved back to Medford to teach and coach football during which won a state title in 1940 4 Bowerman married Barbara Young on June 22 1936 Their first son Jon was born June 22 1938 William J Bowerman Jr Jay was born November 17 1942 Their third son Tom was born May 20 1946 Military career Edit Bowerman had been in the ROTC and Army Reserve and then joined the United States Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the days following the Pearl Harbor attack He was assigned to Fort Lawton in Washington and served a year there before being assigned to the 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment at Camp Hale in Leadville Colorado He was in the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment the regiment became apart of the 10th Mountain Division 5 Bowerman s duty entailed organizing the troops supplies and maintaining the mules used to carry the supplies in the mountains On December 23 1944 the division arrived in Naples Italy and soon moved north to the mountains of northern Italy 6 During his tour of duty Bowerman was promoted to commander of the 86th Regiment s First Battalion at the rank of Major 7 Bowerman negotiated a stand down of German forces near the Brenner Pass in the days before the surrender of the German army in all of Italy 8 For his service Bowerman received the Silver Star and four Bronze Stars He was honorably discharged in October 1945 9 Coaching career EditAfter the war Bowerman returned to his position at Medford High School 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 University of Oregon Edit Bowerman s Men of Oregon won 24 NCAA individual titles with wins in 15 of the 19 events contested and four NCAA team crowns 1962 1964 1965 and 1970 and posted 16 top 10 NCAA finishes in 24 years as head coach His teams also boasted 33 Olympians 38 conference champions and 64 All Americans At the dual level the Ducks posted a 114 20 record and went undefeated in 10 seasons In addition Bowerman coached the world record setting 4 mile 6 4 km relay team in 1962 This team consisted of Archie San Romani Dyrol Burleson Vic Reeve and Keith Forman with a time of 16 08 9 Six years later another Oregon team of Roscoe Divine Wade Bell Arne Kvalheim and Dave Wilborn improved the record to 16 05 0 10 Among athletes that Bowerman coached are Otis Davis Steve Prefontaine Kenny Moore Bill Dellinger Mac Wilkins Jack Hutchins Dyrol Burleson Harry Jerome Sig Ohlemann Les Tipton Gerry Moro Wade Bell Dave Edstrom Roscoe Divine Matt Centrowitz Arne Kvalheim Jim Grelle Bruce Mortenson Phil Knight and Mel Renfro Renfro was a track and football All American had a successful NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Bowerman disliked being called a coach he saw himself as more of a teacher He expected his squad to excel in the classroom and urged his charges to apply the lessons they learned on the track to everyday life 11 4 In 1972 Bowerman stepped back from day to day coaching activities to conduct fundraising for renovating the Hayward Field grandstands that would be necessary for the consideration of hosting the U S Olympic Trials again in 1976 He also ran unsuccessfully for a House 12 seat in the Oregon Legislature in 1970 as a Republican 3 losing by only 815 votes out of 61 000 cast 12 Bowerman officially retired as head coach on March 23 1973 and assistant coach Bill Dellinger was immediately promoted 13 14 15 United States Olympic Track program Edit Bowerman created a training program for adjusting athletes for the high altitude that they would experience at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games This successful program led to his selection as the 1972 Munich Olympic track and field head coaching position even though American miler favorite Jim Ryun lost to Kenyan Kip Keino citing altitude as part of the reason for this upset Bowerman coached members of teams from Norway Canada Australia and the United States During the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympics in West Germany where Bowerman was frequently blamed for a dismal performance by the U S track team Israeli race walker Shaul Ladany escaped the PLO terrorists and then awakened Bowerman and alerted the West German police Bowerman called the U S consulate for a detachment of Marines to protect the U S Olympic compound in which lived two high profile Jewish athletes swimmer Mark Spitz and javelin thrower Bill Schmidt 16 Running EditDuring a trip to New Zealand in 1962 Bowerman was introduced to the concept of running as a fitness routine including people of an advanced age through a running club organized by his friend and coaching colleague Arthur Lydiard Bowerman brought this concept back to the United States and began to write articles and books about running He also created a running program in Eugene that became a national model for fitness programs A Jogger s Manual a three page guide was published shortly after Bowerman returned from New Zealand In 1966 along with cardiologist W E Harris Bowerman published a 90 page book titled Jogging The book sold over a million copies and was credited with igniting the jogging phenomenon in the United States The new crop of older athletic people contributed to the evolution of the sport of track and field to create a new division for these masters athletes Due to the popularity of Jogging Harris and Bowerman published a 127 page book in 1967 Athletics West is an American running team formed by Bill Bowerman Phil Knight and Geoff Hollister in 1977 At the time America had no definitive running program for young athletes to continue competing outside of college The formation and success of Athletics West together with the success and popularity of American runners like Craig Virgin charter member Steve Prefontaine Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers helped inspire the 1970s running boom citation needed Nike Edit Bowerman left conversing with Phil Knight and two other members of the Oregon track team in 1958 According to Otis Davis a student athlete who Bowerman coached at the University of Oregon who later went on to win two gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics he was one of the guinea pigs for whom Bowerman customized shoes prior to being a cofounder of Nike Davis states I didn t like the way they felt on my feet There was no support and they were too tight But I saw Bowerman make them from the waffle iron and they were mine 17 In 1964 Bowerman entered into a handshake agreement with Phil Knight who had been a miler under him in the 1950s to start an athletic footwear distribution company called Blue Ribbon Sports later known as Nike Inc Knight managed the business end of the partnership while Bowerman experimented with improvements in athletic footwear design Bowerman stayed in Eugene keeping his coaching job at the University of Oregon while Knight operated the main office from Portland Bowerman and Knight initially began importing the Onitsuka Tiger running shoes from Japan to sell in the United States Initially the partnership was 50 50 but shortly afterwards Bowerman wanted it changed to 51 49 with Knight having the higher ownership He did this to avoid potential gridlock and have one of them be in charge of final decisions Nike Waffle Trainer Bowerman s design ideas led to the creation of a running shoe in 1966 that was ultimately named Nike Cortez in 1968 which quickly became a top seller and remains one of Nike s most iconic footwear designs Bowerman designed several Nike shoes but is best known for ruining his wife s Belgian waffle iron in 1970 or 1971 experimenting with the idea of using waffle ironed rubber to create a new sole for footwear that would grip but be lightweight 18 Bowerman s design inspiration led to the introduction of the so called Moon Shoe in 1972 so named because the waffle tread was said to resemble the footprints left by astronauts on the moon Further refinement resulted in the Waffle Trainer in 1974 which helped fuel the explosive growth of Blue Ribbon Sports Nike While Bowerman was experimenting with shoe design he worked in a small unventilated space using glue and solvents with toxic components that caused him severe nerve damage The nerve damage to his lower legs left him with significant mobility problems as Kenny Moore notes in his book Bowerman and the Men of Oregon Bowerman had rendered himself unable to run in the shoes that he had given the world 19 Bowerman was obsessed with shaving weight off his athletes running shoes He believed that custom made shoes would weigh less on the feet of his runners and cut down on blisters as well as reduce the overall drag on their energy for every ounce he could remove from the shoe By his estimation removing one ounce 28 g from a shoe based on a six foot gait for a runner would translate in a reduction of 55 pounds 25 kg of lift over a one mile 1 6 km span Knight once said of Bowerman s importance to the company If coach Bowerman isn t happy Nike isn t happy 20 Bowerman reduced his role with the company in the late 1970s and began passing down his stake in the company to other employees shortly before the IPO launched citation needed Legacy EditBowerman is a member of the National Distance Running Hall of Fame the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame Oregon s Athletic Hall of Fame the RRCA Distance Running Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame His statue and stopwatch grace the northwest corner of Hayward Field home of the Prefontaine Classic at the University of Oregon A biographical film Without Limits about the relationship between record breaking distance runner Steve Prefontaine and his coach Bill Bowerman was made in 1998 and Bill Bowerman was played by Donald Sutherland The headquarters for Nike is located on Bowerman Drive in homage to the company s co founder Also in his honor the company created the Bowerman Series of performance running shoes designed to provide longer lasting more training focused products to compete with such running brands as Asics and Saucony In 2009 the U S Track amp Field and Cross Country Coaches Association created The Bowerman an award that is given to the most outstanding collegiate male and female track amp field athlete in a given calendar year 21 Inaugural winners of the award were Oregon s Galen Rupp and Colorado s Jenny Barringer 22 The Bowerman trophy was designed by Tinker Hatfield a Nike employee and former Oregon student athlete coached by Bowerman 23 Death EditIn declining health in late 1999 Bowerman died at age 88 at his home at an assisted care facility in Fossil Oregon 1 24 See also Edit Biography portalList of teachers portrayed in films Without LimitsReferences Edit a b Conrad John December 26 1999 Track pioneer dead at age 88 Eugene Register Guard p 1A Capozzi Rick 2017 The Growth Mindset Leadership Makes a Difference in Wealth Management John Wiley amp Sons p 51 ISBN 9781119421979 a b Gallagher Bill June 2006 Bowerman The man the legend and the new biography by Kenny Moore Brainstorm NW a b c About Bowerman Archived from the original on January 8 2011 Retrieved February 7 2011 Moore p 67 68 Moore p 71 Moore p 77 Moore p 78 79 Moore p 81 Does the U S 4xMile record belong in Eugene The Ducks say Absolutely Track news notes amp links oregonlive com April 9 2009 Putnam Pat June 15 1970 The Freshman And The Great Guru Sports Illustrated 32 24 Retrieved March 2 2011 a b Poll check adds 1 vote election vote recount December 15 1970 The Oregonian p 18 Newnham Blaine March 24 1973 Bowerman retires Dellinger takes helm Eugene Register Guard p 1B Oregon s Bill Bowerman resigns as track coach The Bulletin Bend Oregon UPI March 24 1973 p 9 Bill Bowerman retiring Bill Dellinger to take post Spokane Daily Chronicle Washington Associated Press March 24 1973 p 11 Moore Kenny April 2006 Leading Men Runner s World Retrieved February 24 2013 Hague Jim May 14 2006 Truant officer was Olympic hero Emerson High has gold medalist in midst The Hudson Reporter Archived from the original on May 4 2012 Retrieved March 18 2012 Blitz Matt July 15 2016 How a Dirty Old Waffle Iron Became Nike s Holy Grail Popular Mechanics July 15 2016 Popular Mechanics Retrieved October 20 2018 Moore p 383ff Phil Knight 2016 Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike USTFCCCA Announces the Inception of The Bowerman USTFCCCA Retrieved July 12 2011 Lewis Tom Rupp Barringer Honored as Inaugural Winners of The Bowerman Retrieved July 12 2011 The Bowerman Trophy Design Retrieved July 12 2011 Shoe DogSources EditMoore Kenny 2006 Bowerman and the Men of Oregon Emmaus Pennsylvania Rodale ISBN 978 1 59486 190 1 Bowerman William J 1991 High performance training for track and field Champaign Ill Leisure Press ISBN 0 88011 390 1 Freeman William H 1972 A biographical study of William Jay Bowerman Greenberg Keith 1994 Bill Bowerman amp Phil Knight Building the Nike Empire Blackbirch Press ISBN 978 1 56711 085 2 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Bill Bowerman Guide to the Bill Bowerman Papers at the University of Oregon National Distance Running Hall of Fame Induction Bill Bowerman Documentary produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting Bill Bowerman at the USATF Hall of Fame Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bill Bowerman amp oldid 1122932791, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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