Jesse Owens college trivia

[Bruce Kritzler]

What two other world record holders were teamates of Jesse Owens at Ohio State?

[wsatch]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

I SHOULD, but dont know. think 1 is PVer or hj.

[stevehj197]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

Dave Albritton was the hj'er i think.

[stevehj197]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

no I do not think it, I know it.

[stevehj197]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

and I now know the other guy too... but since I cheated and researched to find it, I will not divulge it here. But Albritton was easy, especially after wsatch's hint. Thanks wsatch.

[dj]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

Both HJers: Albritton and Mel Walker

[hjsteve1.97]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

>Both HJers: Albritton and Mel Walker

dj, no one knows more than you ( I mean that ! ) but Walker's not the one I found. I think you are right on Walker; w/o looking it up I think he set an indoor WR in the HJ.

I found Jack Keller of Ohio State setting WR in the HH, in about 1934... I am not at home so this is memory from looking it up last night. Positive on the Keller part and 90 % on the Jack part.

Steve

[wsatch]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

low hurdles

[dj]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

Jack Keller finished at OSU in '33, the same year Owens was getting out of HS.

Walker did have an indoor "WR" also an outdoor WR after Albritton. I'm pretty sure Walker was OSU '37, Albritton '36, Owens -37, but last there in '36.

[hjsteve1.97]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

thanks dj, good work and good info. And wsatch, it was the HH that Keller set the WR in, not the lH.

[hjsteve1.97]

Re: Jesse Owens college trivia

to clarify about Keller, it was definitely the High Hurdles in which he set a WR as opposed to the Low Hurdles. He may well have done that too, I have no idea, but it was the Highs in which he set the WR that I looked up last night.