Irving "Moon" Mondschein

[BillVol]

I did not know this name until looking at the Penn photo gallery linked here. He has a wiki page that gave a good bio. It is nice to see people like this honored in such a way as he was at Penn.

Was his coaching specialty throwing (and therefore the throwing area named in his honor)?

[Per Andersen]

Re: Irving "Moon" Mondschein

I did not know this name until looking at the Penn photo gallery linked here. He has a wiki page that gave a good bio. It is nice to see people like this honored in such a way as he was at Penn.

Was his coaching specialty throwing (and therefore the throwing area named in his honor)?

There are guaranteed other posters here that know more about Mondschein than me. But he was primarily a High Jumper and Decathlete. He was 8th in the London '48 Decathlon. He won the NCAA HJ and jumped over 2m when that was absolutely world class.

[BillVol]

Re: Irving "Moon" Mondschein

Thanks, Per. Glad to finally know the name. Wonder what took Penn so long?

[Cooter Brown]

Re: Irving "Moon" Mondschein

His grandson, Brian, was a 5.60ish pole vaulter at Virginia tech a few years back.

[wamego relays champ]

Re: Irving "Moon" Mondschein

His grandson, Brian, was a 5.60ish pole vaulter at Virginia tech a few years back.

And, to fill in the middle generation, Irv's son (Brian) was an NCAA scorer in the Decathlon in '77 for U of Washington, and is now an assistant coach at Princeton.

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[polevaultpower]

Re: Irving "Moon" Mondschein

[quote=wamego relays champ][quote="Cooter Brown"usu4r5e]His grandson, Brian, was a 5.60ish pole vaulter at Virginia tech a few years back.[/quote]

And, to fill in the middle generation, Irv's son (Brian) was an NCAA scorer in the Decathlon in '77 for U of Washington, and is now an assistant coach at Princeton.

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That's actually the younger Brian's uncle, his dad is Mark. Here is a nice article that discusses some of the family history: [url="https://polevaultpower.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5560"]https://polevaultpower.com/forum/viewto ... =12&t=5560[/url]

Brian the younger eventually obtained Israeli citizenship and compete for them, his dad was born in Israel, and was able to connect with his family's roots there, his grandfather is very fondly remembered by the athletics community there.

[Halfmiler2]

Re: Irving "Moon" Mondschein

I was on the Penn teams in the 1970s when Jim Tuppeny was head coach and Irv was the field coach. They led us to 7 Outdoor Heptagonal Championships in a row - the Heps were the Ivies plus Navy and Army in those days. Eventually, Tup gave up the coaching to focus on directing the Penn Relays and Irv became head coach. By the way, Irv's son Mark was also one of several very good hurdlers on those teams in addition to the other mentioned events. DJ would remember whether he was on any of Penn's winning shuttle hurdle relay team at Penn Relays. Irv also had a nephew Charles Lampert on the team who was a quarter miler.

Irv's best event was the HJ and unfortunately it rained during the event at the 1948 Olympics or else he might have finished with a higher point total.

A truly great coach and human being and a fellow with a great sense of humor.