Steve Prefontaine receives the Bill Hayward Memorial Trophy as Oregon's top athlete for 1970, 1971, and 1973--the only athlete to receive this award more than once

Steve Prefontaine receives the Bill Hayward Memorial Trophy as Oregon's top athlete for 1970, 1971, and 1973--the only athlete to receive this award more than once

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Steve Prefontaine receives the Bill Hayward Memorial Trophy as Oregon's top athlete for 1970, 1971, and 1973--the only athlete to receive this award more than once. The award is presented annually in Portland, Oregon (beginning in 1948), named in memory of "Colonel" Bill Hayward (1868-1947), venerable track and field coach for the University of Oregon for 44 years, and a coach for six United States Olympic teams. The award is decided by vote of the members of the Oregon Sportswriters and sportscasters Association. Presentations were usually on a day close to the date of the annual Oregon Invitational Indoor track meet in Portland.
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[info based on article by Bud Withers in the Eugene Register-Guard, February 2, 1971]

Only two days since he was named outstanding athlete at the 1971 Oregon indoor track meet, Pre received the 23rd annual award of the Hayward Trophy for 1970 at a February 1, 1971, banquet at the Sheraton Hotel. He is shown with sportswriter Bill Mulflur who presented the permanent trophy (a smaller one was given to the winner to take home).

In 1970, Pre won the 1970 NCAA 3-mile championship in Des Moines, Iowa (his first of four such victories), and the NCAA cross country championship in Williamsburg, Virginia. He also ran his first sub-4 minute mile.

Pre remarked: "I want to thank everybody for this most rewarding honor. I hope I can follow in the footsteps of all the past great winners." [he did, and then some]

Other awardees that evening were: Harry Glickman, president of the Portland Trail Blazer basketball team, was named Slats Gill Man of the year; Tinker Hatfield, a three-sport star from Central Linn HS, was named Prep Athlete of the year; and Art Jones, high-scoring center for the Buckaroo hockey team, was named pro athlete for the year.

Featured speaker at the banquet was Bo Schmbechler, head football coach at the university of Michigan.
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[info based on article by Neil Cawood in the Eugene Register-Guard, February 1, 1972]

Pictured L-R are Pre, Geoff Petrie, guard for the Portland Trail Blazer, and Russ Francis, javelin thrower for Pleasant Hill, Oregon. [Pre is wearing the opening ceremony parade US Team uniform he wore in the 1971 Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia]

Pre received the 24th annual award of the Hayward Trophy for 1971 at a January 21, 1972, banquet. Pre was named Amateur Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year, the first-ever [and still] multiple trophy winner.

In 1971, Pre won the NCAA and AAU 3-mile championship races; won the Gold Medal in the 5000m event of the Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia [the only International Olympic Committee-sanctioned games medal he would ever win]; set a new American Record in the 5000m in a USA v USSR track meet in Berkeley; won the NCAA cross country championship at Knoxville; and ran a personal best sub-4 minute mile in 3:56.4. He won every indoor, track, and cross country event he entered in 1971 except one (when he ran his PB sub-4 mile).

When asked what event he hoped to run in the upcoming 1972 Munich Olympis, he replied, "I'll be working for the 5000 meters because I feel confident and stronger at the longer distances. I just hope i'm there."

He commented later: "I like to say I was a winner last year after winning this award [for 1970], I lost only one race. If I'm lucky this year, maybe I can bring a gold medal home."

Pre was not the only double winner in the banquet's history that evening. His Oregon head track and field coach, Bill Bowerman, received the Slats Gill Man-of-the-Year award for his achievements in that role. Bowerman won the Hayward Award in 1951, before the award was divided into amateur, professional, and noncompetitive categories. At that point, Bowerman, a former Oregon athlete, had four NCAA team track championships to his coaching credits. He had coached 14 individual NCAA champions, and had his team in the top 10 in the NCAA track and field championship meets 14 times. He was slated to be the head coach for the US track and field team for the 1972 Munich Olympics.

The two other awardees that evening were Russ Francis, freshman javelin thrower and football player at Oregon, and former Pleasant Hill HS star, who was awarded the prep athlete of the year (he set a new US high school record javelin throw of 259-9 and placed 4th in the AAU track and field championship meet); and Geoff Petrie, Portland Trail Blazer Guard, was named professional athlete of the year.

Speaker for the banquet was Bob Devaney, coach who led the Nebraska football team to two consecutive national college football titles.
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[info based on an unaccredited article in the Eugene Register-Guard, February 5, 1974]

In a surprise announcement due to Pre's recent 1974 indoor losses, Pre received the 26th annual award of the Hayward Trophy for 1973 at a February 2, 1974, banquet at the Hilton Hotel in Portland. Pre was named Amateur Athlete of the Year for a third time--he was the first-ever [and still] multiple trophy winner.

Pre remarked in his acceptance comments: "For the first time in my life, I'm speechless. This is one of my greatest honors. I feel that several others up here are just as deserving."

In 1973, Pre won the NCAA (in Baton Rouge) and AAU (in Bakersfieldc CA) 3-mile championship races, and the NCAA cross country championship in Spokane, Washington. He set US records in the indoor 2-mile, and the 6-mile and 5000m outdoor track events. He also won an unprecedented 4th consecutive NCAA in the same event--the 3-mile. He ran his best-ever sub-4 mile time in 3:54.6. Pre won every 1973 race in the US he set out to win in indoor, track, and cross country (he invited, then paced, Dave Wottle in a mile-record attempt, ceding the lead for the home stretch).

Pre competed for the top honor against some very talented athletes: Mac Wilkins, considerd then by many as the best multiple weightman in shotput, discus, and javelin, in track and field history; Greg Strobel, national champion wrestler who won 60 matches in a row; and Albany, Oregon's, Mike Hess, AAU outstanding boxer for 1973.

Other awardees that evening were: Portland Trail Blazer Guard Geoff Petrie, named best athlete of the year; Wilson HS baseball coach Jack Dunn won the Slats Gill Trophy; and Richard Washington won prep athlete of the year, playing basketball for the Portland's Benson Tech, then playing as a freshman for UCLA.

Dallas Cowboys running back Calvin Hill was featured speaker. Bill Bowerman spoke in memory of Bill Hayward, Oregon's longtime coach.

The Fred Chapple Trophy

Image by Walt Jabsco
An original copy of a photograph that featured in the ’Bristol Evening Post’
The caption underneath the photograph read:

“Malcolm Chapple, grandson of the late Fred Chapple, the former Bristol City player, hands the new Fred Chapple Trophy to Mr W. Pinnell (The Traveller of the Evening Post), for annual presentation to the cribbage champion at the North Bristol Social Club. Also in the picture are Mrs Pinnell, Mr D.Mann (secretary) and Mr Wilf Ashman (treasurer). The first holder of the Fred Chapple Trophy is Fred Coombe, with Wally Taylor the runner up.”

Malcolm Chapple being my Dad, Fred Chapple my Great Grandfather who was a Professional Footballer. Fred played for Aston Villa and Birmingham City before returning to his home town of Bristol to play for Bristol City. Bill Pinnell wrote a football column for the Evening Post and went under the pen name of “The Traveller”.

Stapled to the back of the photograph was a letter from Bill to my Late Grandfather Leslie Chapple that read:
“Dear Leslie,
Thought you might like the enclosed as a souvenir of a very happy and most enjoyable night. Many thanks indeed for the assistance and hospitality given to the Wife and myself by your goodself and other officers of your club. It was greatly appreciated.
One of these fine nights we may walk in and meet you all again
Yours very Sincerely
Bill Pinnell”

Written on the back of the photograph by my Grandfather Leslie were the words:

"Malcolm J Chapple
Grandson presenting sheild on behalf of his Father to the memory of his Grandfather. A local football player who made the grade"

UEFA Champions League Cup at MUFC

Image by Sou'wester
I'm not a great football fan but I was at a black tie bash at MUFC and took this opportunity to take a picture of this Cup which was on display. Not bad for a shot taken on my mobile phone.

uefa women's euro

Image by timsnell
we've got a few different projects we're doing at work for uefa, one if which is for the women's european championships. my colleague is working on a really cool animation that will act as the broadcast sequence when it is shown on tv. he's put loads of work into it and i'm sure it will look awesome, it's just a shame that it's for women's football which means that it will probably be shown on some obscure cable channel at a ridiculous time to a handful of viewers. anyway, part of the job involved scanning the actual trophy, so last week it was just sitting in our office (well in truth, i think it was one of three identical replicas). i couldn't get a very good picture of the actual trophy as it's quite dark inside our offices, in fact i'm a little surprised i managed to get the sharpness i did in this handheld shot considering the shutter was open for about half a second.

here's the original

Boone Trophy Presentation

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SAN ANTONIO - The West team was presented with the Boone Trophy after winning 2012 U.S. Army All-American Bowl, 24-12. Pictured here during the presentation ceremony (L-R) are: West defensive lineman Hassan Ridgeway (Mansfield H.S., Mansfield, Texas), Coach Herman Boone, the legendary coach of the T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., and the Honorable Thomas Lamont, Assistant Secretary of the Army -- Manpower and Reserve Affairs. (Photo by U.S. Army)