UCLA

[richxx87]

Re: UCLA

Yep just a fantasy...

What school could deal with UCLA when it comes to the relays?
4x4

Wayne Collett
Steve Lewis
Danny Everett
John Smith

When Henry Thomas was in his Jr. year at UCLA in '87, he clocked a 43.7 split on the 3rd leg at Mt. Sac against a team of World All Stars. He took the baton from Kevin Young and found himself trailing Bruin Alum Andre Phillips by 5 meters. He blew by Andre Phillips and opened up a 8-10 meter lead for Danny Everett to take it home.

Some guys are just born relay stars and Thomas was certainly one of them. He doesn't have an open 400 time that comes close to the quality of that 43.7 split.

I seriously don't even want to speculate on who you could take off of that team to make room for Henry... I'd be more inclined to have this very solid "B" team consisting of:

1. Warren Edmonson OR Benny Brown
2. James LuValle ('35 Ncaa champ, Bronze in Berlin, chemistry-physics scholar)
3. Maxie Parks
4. Henry Thomas

[richxx87]

Here's a couple of cool stories on LuValle:

http://www.spotlight.ucla.edu/alumni/ja ... biography/

http://www.aafla.org/6oic/OralHistory/OHLuValle.pdf
Fantastic read about his experience at the '36 Berlin Olympics!!

[EastBayprepoftheweek67]

There is a school out there with eight Olympians in the sprints. Another with six. Not that they could beat the Bruins but...hmmmm?

There is a school out there with seven Olympians in the sprints, five of whom came home with Gold medals. Which school is it? And, is there another US college with a greater number of sprinters who have Golds?

[richxx87]

There is a school out there with eight Olympians in the sprints. Another with six. Not that they could beat the Bruins but...hmmmm?

There is a school out there with seven Olympians in the sprints, five of whom came home with Gold medals. Which school is it? And, is there another US college with a greater number of sprinters who have Golds?

TWO questions before I can answer:
1. How are you fellas defining "sprints" -- only 100m and 200m?? OR do you mean the 400, 400H, 110H, 4x1, 4x4

2. Is it just on the men's side or combined with women?

[Texas]

There is a school out there with eight Olympians in the sprints. Another with six. Not that they could beat the Bruins but...hmmmm?

There is a school out there with seven Olympians in the sprints, five of whom came home with Gold medals. Which school is it? And, is there another US college with a greater number of sprinters who have Golds?

I think we are both talking about...

San Jose St

Ray Norton
Dennis Johnson...Jamaica
Ronnie Ray Smith
Tommie Smith
Lee Evans
JohnCarlos

Arizona St

The Spence Brothers...Jamaica
Ulis Wiliams
Henry Carr
Ron Brown
Ron Freeman
Herman Frazier (Oldtimer)
Dwayne Evans

USC did have

Howard Drew
Charlie Paddock
Frank Wykoff
Mel Patton
Mike Larrabee
Lennox Miler
Don Quarrie
Quincy Watts

[richxx87]

Can you leave Michigan (god rest their football team's soul) out of that?

1. Archie Hahn won 4 GOLD medals in the Olympic 60m, 100m x2 and 200m
2. Ralph Craig won 2 GOLD medals in the 100 and 200
3. Eddie Tolan won 2 GOLD medals in the 100 and 200

That's 8 individual "sprint" GOLD medals for UofM (off the top of my head) and not including hurdles, anything over 200m OR relays.

[EastBayprepoftheweek67]

There is a school out there with eight Olympians in the sprints. Another with six. Not that they could beat the Bruins but...hmmmm?

There is a school out there with seven Olympians in the sprints, five of whom came home with Gold medals. Which school is it? And, is there another US college with a greater number of sprinters who have Golds?

TWO questions before I can answer:
1. How are you fellas defining "sprints" -- only 100m and 200m?? OR do you mean the 400, 400H, 110H, 4x1, 4x4

2. Is it just on the men's side or combined with women?

I was following Texas' lead, counting the number for one US college of:
Individual male Olympians (not the number of medals);
Flat 100/200/400 sprinters (60m counts, too,) but no hurdles;
No multi-events.

For Texas: I am thinking of another school you haven't listed yet that has seven Olympians in the sprints, five of whom came home with Gold medals. Of course, you have found USC which has produced 8 Olympians, six of whom have won individual male Gold medals.

[richxx87]

AND... when you combine Men's and Women's Olympic medals in T&F, I think it'd be hard to beat this group of UCLA stars... even by MOST countries.

WR or WJR indicates that person is still holder of a world Record in that event.
Men's Track & Field - 44 (13 Gold, 16 Silver, 15 Bronze)
Ato Boldon (Trinidad)
100 meters 1996 Bronze
200 meters 1996 Bronze
100 meters 2000 Silver
200 meters 2000 Bronze
Benny Brown
4x400 meter relay 1976 Gold
James Butts
Triple Jump 1976 Silver
Wayne Collett
400 meter dash 1972 Silver
Craig Dixon
110 meter high hurdles 1948 Bronze
Danny Everett
4x400 meter relay 1988 Gold
400 meters 1988 Bronze
Greg Foster
110 meter high hurdles 1984 Silver
John Godina
Shot put 1996 Silver
Shot put 2000 Bronze
Millard Hampton
4x100 meter relay 1976 Gold
200 meter dash 1976 Silver
George Jefferson
Pole Vault 1932 Bronze
Mebrahtom Keflezighi
Marathon 2004 Silver
Rafer Johnson
Decathlon 1960 Gold
Decathlon 1956 Silver
Lloyd La Beach (Panama)
100 meter dash 1948 Bronze
200 meter dash 1948 Bronze
Dave Laut
Shot Put 1984 Bronze
Steve Lewis
400 meters 1988 Gold -- WJR
4x400 meter relay 1988 Gold
400 meters 1992 Silver
4x400 meter relay 1992 Gold
Jimmy LuValle
400 meter dash 1936 Bronze
Mike Marsh (Also current WR 4x200)
4x100 meter relay 1992 Gold -- WR
200 meter 1992 Gold
4x100 meter relay 1996 Silver
Robert McMillen
1500 meter run 1952 Silver
Maxie Parks
4x400 meter relay 1976 Gold
Andre Phillips
400 meter intermediate hurdles 1988 Gold
Mike Powell (current WR in LJ from '91 WC)
Long Jump 1988 Silver
Long Jump 1992 Silver
George Roubanis (Greece)
Pole Vault 1956 Bronze
George Stanich
High Jump 1948 Bronze
Dwight Stones
high Jump 1972 Bronze
High Jump 1976 Bronze
Mike Tully
Pole Vault 1984 Silver
C. K. Yang (Republic of China)
Decathlon 1960 Silver
Cy Young
Javelin 1952 Gold
Bob Young
4x400 meter relay 1936 Silver
Kevin Young
400 meter intermediate hurdles 1992 Gold -- WR


Women's Track & Field - 28 (18, 5, 5)
Andrea Anderson
4x400 meter relay 2000 Gold
Evelyn Ashford
100 meters 1984 Gold
4x100 meter relay 1984 Gold
4x100 meter relay 1988 Gold
100 meters 1988 Silver
4x100 meter relay 1992 Gold
Jeanette Bolden
4x100 meter relay 1984 Gold
Gail Devers
100 meters 1992 Gold
100 meters 1996 Gold
4x100 meter relay 1996 Gold
Joanna Hayes
100 meter hurdles 2004 Gold
Monique Henderson
4x400 meter relay 2004 Gold
Sherri Howard
4x400 meter relay 1984 Gold

Florence Griffith Joyner -- 100 and 200 WR
100 meters 1988 Gold
200 meters 1988 Gold
4x100 meter relay 1988 Gold
4x400 meter relay 1988 Silver
200 meters 1984 Silver

Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Heptathalon 1988 Gold -- WR
Long Jump 1988 Gold
Heptathalon 1984 Silver
Heptathalon 1992 Gold
Long Jump 1992 Bronze
Long Jump 1996 Bronze

Kate Schmidt
Javelin 1972 Bronze
Javelin 1976 Bronze
Janeene Vickers
400 meter intermediate hurdles 1992 Bronze
Marilyn White
4x100 meter relay 1964 Silver

[Oldtimer]

Don't forget Herman Frazier for Arizona St.

There is a school out there with eight Olympians in the sprints. Another with six. Not that they could beat the Bruins but...hmmmm?

There is a school out there with seven Olympians in the sprints, five of whom came home with Gold medals. Which school is it? And, is there another US college with a greater number of sprinters who have Golds?

I think we are both talking about...

San Jose St

Ray Norton
Dennis Johnson...Jamaica
Ronnie Ray Smith
Tommie Smith
Lee Evans
JohnCarlos

Arizona St

The Spence Brothers...Jamaica
Ulis Wiliams
Henry Carr
Ron Brown
Dwayne Evans

USC did have

Howard Drew
Charlie Paddock
Frank Wykoff
Mel Patton
Mike Larrabee
Lennox Miler
Don Quarrie
Quincy Watts

[Bruce Kritzler]

4x200 Houston - Joe DeLoach, Kirk Baptiste, Leroy Burrell, Carl Lewis
Any takers?

[bijanc]

4 x 200

USC would take Houston on: Miller to McCullough to Watts to Quarrie.

San Jose State would too: Norton to Ray to Carlos to Smith.

BCB

[bijanc]

Amendment

Norton to Ronnie Ray Smith to Carlos to T. Smith (vs. Tom Tellez's boys)

BCB

[Texas]

There is a school out there with eight Olympians in the sprints. Another with six. Not that they could beat the Bruins but...hmmmm?

There is a school out there with seven Olympians in the sprints, five of whom came home with Gold medals. Which school is it? And, is there another US college with a greater number of sprinters who have Golds?

TWO questions before I can answer:
1. How are you fellas defining "sprints" -- only 100m and 200m?? OR do you mean the 400, 400H, 110H, 4x1, 4x4

2. Is it just on the men's side or combined with women?

I was following Texas' lead, counting the number for one US college of:
Individual male Olympians (not the number of medals);
Flat 100/200/400 sprinters (60m counts, too,) but no hurdles;
No multi-events.

For Texas: I am thinking of another school you haven't listed yet that has seven Olympians in the sprints, five of whom came home with Gold medals. Of course, you have found USC which has produced 8 Olympians, six of whom have won individual male Gold medals.

I don't keep up with the female side of track much. Something tells me ...hmmm?

[Texas]

Re: 4 x 200

USC would take Houston on: Miller to McCullough to Watts to Quarrie.

San Jose State would too: Norton to Ray to Carlos to Smith.

BCB

How's about...

USC

Clancy Edwards-James Sanford-James Gilkes-Don Quarrie

Gotta love that SJS team!


Check out Tennessee..

Reggie Jones
Willie Gault
Jeff Phillips
Mike Miller
Terry Scott
Sam Graddy
Leonard Scott
Justin Gatlin

[EastBayprepoftheweek67]

I was following Texas' lead, counting the number for one US college of:
Individual male Olympians (not the number of medals);
Flat 100/200/400 sprinters (60m counts, too,) but no hurdles;
No multi-events.

For Texas: I am thinking of another school you haven't listed yet that has seven Olympians in the sprints, five of whom came home with Gold medals. Of course, you have found USC which has produced 8 Olympians, six of whom have won individual male Gold medals.

I don't keep up with the female side of track much. Something tells me ...hmmm?

Texas:

The school with seven male Olympian sprinters is Cal. The five who won Gold ran:
100m (3)
400m (2)

Anyone want to take a shot at who they were?
[Edited to change the counts]