Old Skool

 Our Golden Putter Attendant supplied me with a photo of the first Track and Field (Athletics) team photos in Rec Hall.  They date back as far as 1891. And the men appear eerily similar to modern day student athletes.  There is even one guy who looks like a talent less hack from York!

 

 

It is rather surprising to me how stable Athletics has been from the very first world-wide event at the 1896 Olympics.  There were some Ivy League boys there, but no one from PSU.  Especially the dork from York.  But the events contested at that event are all still contested today.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Thomas Burke  United States	12.0	Fritz Hofmann  Germany	12.2	Francis Lane  United States	12.6
					Alajos Szokolyi  Hungary
400 metres details	Thomas Burke  United States	54.2	Herbert Jamison  United States	55.2	Charles Gmelin  Great Britain	56.7
800 metres details	Edwin Flack  Australia	2:11.0	Nándor Dáni  Hungary	2:11.8	Dimitrios Golemis  Greece	2:28.0
1500 metres details	Edwin Flack  Australia	4:33.2	Arthur Blake  United States	4:33.6	Albin Lermusiaux  France	4:36.0
110 metre hurdles details	Thomas Curtis  United States	17.6	Grantley Goulding  Great Britain	17.6	none awarded
Marathon details	Spiridon Louis  Greece	2:58:50	Charilaos Vasilakos  Greece	3:06:03	Gyula Kellner  Hungary	3:06:35
High jump details	Ellery Clark  United States	1.81 m	James Connolly  United States	1.65 m	none awarded
			Robert Garrett  United States
Pole vault details	William Hoyt  United States	3.30 m	Albert Tyler  United States	3.20 m	Evangelos Damaskos  Greece	2.60 m
					Ioannis Theodoropoulos  Greece
Long jump details	Ellery Clark  United States	6.35 m	Robert Garrett  United States	6.00 m	James Connolly  United States	5.84 m
Triple jump details	James Connolly  United States	13.71 m	Alexandre Tuffère  France	12.70 m	Ioannis Persakis  Greece	12.52 m
Shot put details	Robert Garrett  United States	11.22 m	Miltiadis Gouskos  Greece	11.03 m	Georgios Papasideris  Greece	10.36 m
Discus throw details	Robert Garrett  United States	29.15 m	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos  Greece	28.95 m	Sotirios Versis  Greece	27.78 m