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This Day in Monitor & Discipline-November 11 (Veterans Day)
1868–From Wally Donovan’s Historical past of Indoor Monitor & Discipline
“On a chilly and wet night time, indoor monitor was born in New York Metropolis. The newly shaped New York Athletic Membership carried out the primary organized monitor and discipline meet ever held in the US in a constructing that was underneath building for a skating rink at Third Avenue and 63rd Avenue.
The constructing (later referred to as the Empire Metropolis Skating Rink) had solely a partial roof, so tarpaulins have been rapidly gathered by the devoted membership members, sewn collectively and stretched over the yawning gap atop the construction.
Inside, the middle of the rink had not been floored, so the athletes competed on a staked out eighth-of-a-mile clay monitor, with 4 straight and slim sides and 4 uncomfortably sharp corners.
On Wednesday night, November 11, 1868, it was pouring rain as the group arrived in horsecars and carriages. They have been greeted by a 42-piece band and the place was aglow with gaslights. Nevertheless, this didn’t hold the two,000 spectators (each female and male) and the athletes of their flimsy monitor fits from shivering.
Spiked sneakers have been used for the primary time, however there was just one pair in order that they have been shared by (some) athletes. The sneakers have been useful in profitable a prize in each occasion they have been used, three firsts, one second and one third being the entire for the night. When it’s remembered that not one of many customers had ever earlier than worn a spiked shoe and that the monitor was virtually as onerous as a concrete ground, it could be realized that the brand new fashion sneakers have been considerably uncomfortable, to say the least.
Using the pistol in beginning was not as common because it later turned, and a bass drum was used at this assembly to provide the beginning sign. Whereas it is going to be usually admitted that such a sound can be audible not solely to the starters however even to all the spectators, but a contestant in a single warmth of the 75 yard run requested for one more trial as a result of he ‘didn’t hear the drum’.
The marks made by every winner have been the primary newbie information ever claimed in America.”
Winners
75 yards—William B. Curtis NYAC 9.0
220y—Frank Johnson NYAC 28.0
440y—H.S. Magrane NYAC 1:02.0
880y— H.S. Magrane NYAC 2:26.0
Hurdles (distance not said)—Frank Johnson NYAC 24.0
Operating Leap—F.W. Stone Woods’ Gymnasium 5’-2”
Operating Broad Leap—John Goldie Caldeonian Membership 17’-0”
Standing Broad Leap (with weights)—P.M. Broderick NYAC 11’-6 1/5”
Standing Excessive Leap—John Goldie Caldeonian Membership 4’-5”
Standing Three Jumps—P.M. Broderick NYAC 33’-8”
Pole Vault—W.L. Campbell Caledonian Membership (NYAC?) 8’-3”
Shot Put—Alexander Graham Caledonian Membership 35’-5”
Hammer—W.L. Campbell Caledonian Membership (NYAC?) 73’-0”
Mile Stroll–J.E. Russell NYAC 7:50.5
1882–Lon Myers lowered his American Report within the mile to 4:27.6 in New York. A constitution member of the Nationwide Corridor of Fame (1974), Myers additionally set American Information within the 100y, 220y, 440y and 880y and gained a complete of 15 U.S. titles within the 100y (2), 220y (4), 440y (6) and 880y (3)
WIki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Myers
https://www.usatf.org/information/2020/myers-earns-throwback-athlete-of-the-week-honors
1963—Similar to the mile has its’ 4-minute barrier, the benchmark for the standard 2-1/2 mile highschool cross nation course at NY’s Van Cortlandt Park is 13-minutes. Whereas he didn’t garner the extent of consideration that Roger Bannister obtained when he ran his historic 3:59.4 in 1954, Invoice Leahy, a 17-yeard previous senior at Boston’s Catholic Memorial H.S., turned one other barrier-buster when he ran 12:58.6 on this date on the “Irish Christian Brothers Championship”!
Marc Bloom, a member of the Van Cortlandt Park Corridor of Fame (for his intensive protection of highschool occasions on the iconic website), writes at size about Leahy’s life earlier than and after his shining second on this RunnerSpace article (Leahy was inducted into the VCP HOF in 2025):
https://www.runnerspace.com/information.php?news_id=647922
Born On This Day*
KC Lightfoot 26 (1999) Set an American Report of 19-11 (6.07) within the Pole Vault in Nashville on June 2, 2023. The
earlier file of 19-10 ½ (6.06) was set by Sam Kendricks in 2019
2021 NCAA Indoor Champion (Baylor); 4th-2019 NCAA Championships, eighth Indoors
Tied for 4th on the 2021 Olympics, competed within the qualifying spherical on the 2019 World Championships
Tied for tenth on the 2022 World Indoor Championships
2nd on the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials; eradicated within the qualifying spherical on the 2024 Trials
third on the 2023 U.S. Indoor Championships, 4th Outside
2018 Nationwide Scholastic Champion
Suffering from accidents lately
PBs: 19-11 (6.07/2023/NR/#5 All-Time), 19-8 1/4i (6.00/2021/=Collegiate Report/=#10 A-T, #4-U.S.);
Excessive College PBs: 18-5 (5.61+/2018/#3 A-T), 17-9i (5.41/2018/#10 A-T)
2025 SB: 18-10 ½ (5.75)
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/147335
https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/kc-lightfoot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC_Lightfoot
AR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-mo-U7fxc
Submit AR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfNQ39RtVrg
Raymond Hecht—Germany 57 (1968) Bronze medalist within the Javelin on the 1998 European Championships
4th on the 1996 and 2000 Olympics
Finalist at 4 World Championships—1991 (twelfth), 1995 (4th), 1999 (fifth), 2001 (fifth)
Set a German Report of 303-10 (92.60/#9 All-Time) in 1995 (since damaged)
Made the T&F Information High-10 World Rankings 10 instances from 1993-2003 (missed in 1997)…ranked #2 in 1995 &
1996
Rankings:
https://trackandfieldnews.com/mens-world-rankings-by-athlete-2/mens-world-javelin-rankings-by-athlete/
http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70268
Deceased
Willie Might 75 (1936-March 28, 2012) 1960 Olympic silver medalist—110-Hurdles (misplaced a photo-finish to Lee Calhoun)
All-American at Indiana: NCAA (120y-hurdles)-1957 (seventh), 1958 (third), 1959 (2nd)
Silver medalist on the 1963 Pan-American Video games
Turned a coach and Athletic Director at Evanston Township(IL) Excessive College. Retired as the top coach in 2006,
however remained as an assistant up till the time he handed away in 2012.
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78748
OG(End): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sIwZKn2_6A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_May
https://www.chicagotribune.com/information/ct-xpm-2012-04-04-ct-met-willie-may-obit-20120404-story.html
Jan Johnson 74 (1950-February 23, 2025) 1972 Olympic bronze medalist—Pole Vault
1970 NCAA Champion whereas at Kansas (occasion held indoors because of inclement climate/set a World Indoor Report of
17-7/5.36)
After transferring to Alabama, he gained the 1972 NCAA Indoor title
1971 U.S. and Pan-American Video games Champion
PB: 18-1/2 (5.50/1972)
Grew up on his household farm in Chicago Heights,IL. “I acquired began in pole vaulting with a pitchfork leaping over hay
bales. That’s the trustworthy fact. We’d exit to take advantage of the cows after which we’d be dragging hay bales. Most likely my
earliest reminiscence of leaping over hay bales was after I was about 8 or 9.”
Coached his daughter Chelsea in highschool…she went on to win the silver medal within the Ladies’s Pole Vault at
the 2009 World Championships in Berlin—(her husband is Trey Hardee, the 2-time World Champion–2009,
2011, and 2012 Olympic silver medalist within the Decathlon).
Daughter Chelsea’s Submit on Fb
“A few of the pole vaulters he coached have been 1997 World Championships bronze medalist Dean Starkey
(19’5″), Greg Duplantis (19’0″)1988, Simon Arkell, the previous Australia Report Holder (19’4) 1991, and
Shayla Balentine, the previous Nationwide HS file holder (13’8) 2001”.
Founding father of the Sky Jumpers Vertical Sports activities Membership in Atascadero, California.
Had been the Pole Vault Security Chair for USATF
Wrote about his journey to the 1972 Olympics in his autobiography, “The Excessive Flyer and the Cultural Revolution”
https://www.amazon.com/Excessive-Flyer-Cultural-Revolution-Journal/dp/1480986003/
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78614
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Johnson
https://patch.com/illinois/chicagoheights/olympic-medalist-jan-johnson-hasnt-forgotten-his-chicf8bd826540
Sky Jumpers: https://www.vstraining.com/skyjumperspv/
Aleksandr Baryshnikov—Russia 75 (1948-Sep. 15, 2024) 2-time Olympic medalist—Shot Put (1976 -bronze, 1980-silver)
Was one of many early practitioners of the spin method (however not the primary).
Former World Report holder: 72-2 ¼ (22.00/1976). It was the primary World Report utilizing the brand new method.
http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77373
http://rethinkingathletics.blogspot.com/2016/08/are-shot-putters-becoming-spinners.html
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