V5 N. 101 Coe is Not in Favor of Banning Russia and Kenya
Coe Doesn't Want to Boot the Russians and KenyansIn this article from Reuters you will note that Sebastian Coe is not in favor of banning Russia and Kenya from international athletics competition. He...
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V 5 N. 102 November , 1965 Cross Country
NOVEMBER 1965 Except for those crazy guys in Australia and New Zealand, the world has turned from track and field to cross country. In collegiate track a school's fifth best distance runner can be...
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V 5 N. 103 Coe Is Struggling Valiantly to Prove He Was Unconcious The Last...
Well, the WADA report is out, all 323 pages of it which I have not and may never have time to read and digest. The salmon are still running in the Puntlege River. I have my priorities. However...
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V 5 N. 104 Kansas Jayhawk Reunion Announcement
Mike Solomon and Mickey Mathews of the Kansas Jayhawk track and field and cross country alums asked us to post this announcement.Hello Former KU Track Jayhawkers, We are planning a reunion for the 2016...
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V 5 N. 106 First World War Cross Country
This from the website Go FeetPosted: 19 Oct 2015 03:07 PM PDTA hundred years ago, as the First World War raged, combatants on all sides were facing a far more serious muddy and bloody ordeal. But in...
View ArticleV. 5 N. 105 Great Websites and Other Things
This is a rehash of an earlier posting (V 4 N. 18) on our blog. But it needs to be repeated now and again for those who have forgotten and for those who have just started reading Once Upon a Time in...
View ArticleV 5 N. 106 Houston McTear Story from L.A. Times and Bill Dwyre
For McTear, it went too fastBILL DWYRE Houston McTear died Nov. 1. He was 58. That sentence, of course, will prompt the immediate question (unless you are over 50 or a track geek): Who is Houston...
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V 5 N. 107 A Gem about Otis Davis
Ask anyone today who is the greatest University of Oregon track and field athleted ever, and Steve Prefontaine comes up. Steve was an inspiration to many and was out there in front of millions of...
View ArticleV 5 N. 108 November Cross Country History from Gary Corbitt
This just came in from Gary Corbitt.November Cross-Country – HistoryNCAA Championship was 4 miles from 1938-1964 and 6 miles 1965-197511-14-60 Bob Lowe-Brown U wins IC4A Cross-Country Championship...
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V 5 N. 109. Guo Jie Oldest Surviving Olympic Athlete Dies in China
Guo Jie who competed in the discus in the 1936 Olympics for China passed away this week.Guo Jie stayed on the mainland after the 1949 revolution and survived the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution in...
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V 5 N. 110 Track Writer Bert Rosenthal Dies
This story came from the Associated Press today Nov. 17PHOENIX (AP) " Bert Rosenthal, who became one of the top track and field writers in the United States in more than four decades with The...
View ArticleV 5 N. 111 NCAA "College Division" Cross Country
If you're tired of reading the doping stories coming up on all the Track and Field websites, then subject number two seems to be this coming Saturday's NCAA Div. I championship. But what about the...
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V 5 N. 112 Mal Whitfield RIP
Mal Whitfield, Ohio State University, USAF , 3 Olympic Gold Medals a Silver and a Bronze passed away on November 18, 2015 at the age of 91. Whitfield was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War...
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V 5 N. 113 Remembering Steve Machooka, First Kenyan Running in US
From Gary Corbitt's Site Today, Gary notes the achievements of Steve Machooka who ran for Cornell back in 1961. He may well be the first Kenyan to run for a university in the US. Steve won the IC4...
View ArticleV5 N. 114 Of Course You Remember the Last Time Syracuse Won the Nationals
1951 Syracuse Wins NCAA Cross Country ChampionshipThe Syracuse University Magazine had the premenition to publish this article last summer.
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V 5 N. 115 Run to Remember Barry Brown
For those of you living in the Gainesville, FL area, this announcement is to remind anyoneof the annual run to remember Barry Brown, one of the greats of American road racing backin the 1970s. Barry...
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V 5 N. 115 Women Officially Get into Road Racing 1961
Gary Corbitt just sent us this piece on a couple of Thanksgiving day races. FYI. Note first distance race that women officially ran in the US in 1961. I'm sure that England was way ahead of the...
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V 5 N. 116 Earl Young's Project Seeking Bone Marrow Donors
Bone Marrow Donor ProjectEarl Young's TeamEarl Young who most of you remember as an Olympic gold medallist (4x400 Rome) and quarter miler extraordinaire is a survivor of cancer thanks to a bone marrow...
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V 5 N. 117 Adolph Plummer RIP 440 World Record University of New Mexico
We received word tonight that former 440 World Record holder Adolph Plummer has passed away.Pete Brown, Mr. Plummer's friend and former teammate has written about Adolph in the past, and we feel it is...
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V 5 N. 118 More on Adolph Plummer,seldom seen photos and teammate comments
Yesterday we announced the passing of Adolph Plummer. In the few hours since that release, Adolph's teammates have been communicating with each other and some of these comments and especially these...
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