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	Avery Brundage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brundage was an all-round athlete, competing in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm in the pentathlon and decathlon events, finishing 6th and 16th, respectively.
		Brundage praised the Nazi regime at a Madison Square rally in the same year and was expelled from the "America First" national committee in 1941 because of his pro-German leanings.
		Brundage had strongly opposed the exclusion of Rhodesia from the Olympics due to its Apartheid policies and after the attacks in Munich linked the massacre and the barring of the Rhodesian team as crimes of equal magnitude.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avery_Brundage (644 words)

	Avery Brundage: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avery Brundage (September 28, 1887 - May 8, 1975) was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist.
		In addition to his role in sports, Brundage was a noted collector of Asia (The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations) n art.
		Brundage died in 1975, three years after his retirement as IOC president, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (additional info and facts about Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Germany (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/av/avery_brundage.htm (360 words)

	Avery Brundage Collection
		The Avery Brundage Collection is a major resource for the study of 20th century sports and the development of international athletic competition.
		Brundage's career are housed in the University of Illinois Spurlock Museum.
		The 1,663 volume Brundage Olympics and Sports Library is housed in the Avery Brundage Room of the Applied Life Studies Library (146B Library).
	www.library.uiuc.edu /alx/brundage/brundage.htm (804 words)

	Station Information - Avery Brundage
		Avery Brundage (September 28, 1887-May 5, 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist.
		Brundage may be best remembered for his decision during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, after which he planned to retire as IOC President.
		Brundage died a few years after his retirement as IOC president, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
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	Brundage, Avery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Brundage, a believer in the purity of amateur sport and the importance of separating politics from the Olympics, pushed for the American team to compete, which it eventually did.
		Brundage's stance drew criticisms that he was a Nazi sympathizer and an anti-Semite.
		Brundage became a representative of the IOC in 1936, serving as IOC vice president from 1946 to 1952 and IOC president from 1952 to 1972.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/brundage/01.html (586 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Avery Brundage
		A long-time spokesman for pure amateurism in the Olympics, Brundage graduated in 1909 from the University of Illinois, where he was on the track team.
		Brundage revived the idea when the war was over and the first Pan-American Games were held in 1951 in Buenos Aires.
		Brundage became president of the IOC in 1952.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/brundage.shtml (330 words)

	Asian Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1959, Chicago millionaire Avery Brundage and his wife, Elizabeth, agreed to donate the first part of his vast collection of Asian art to San Francisco on the condition that the City build a new museum wing.
		Avery Brundage continued to collect for the next decade, spending hundred of thousands of dollars a year filling in the gaps in his collection.
		Brundage and the City in July 1969 provided for an independent Committee of Asian Art and Culture, whose goal would be to make the Museum the foremost centre in the Western world.
	iias.leidenuniv.nl /iiasn/iiasn5/asiacul/sanfran.html (771 words)

	Avery Brundage - People of Michigan
		Brundage promoted amateur athletics throughout his life, and he also became very successful in the business world.
		Brundage stuck to his guns, advocating the separation of politics from amateur sports.
		In Brundage's view, amateur sports had to be totally removed from political events, no matter how unsavory those events were.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/mi_ab.htm (295 words)

	Search Results for "Avery"
		Avery Island, salt dome, c.200 ft (60 m) high and 2 mi (3.2 km) in diameter, S La., in an area of sea marshes and swamps.
		He was librarian of the Avery Library, Columbia Univ. (1934-45), and professor of architecture there....
		The Avery Coonley School, a private, progressive elementary school, is there....
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	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ORGANISATION - STRUCTURES
		Born in Detroit, Michigan, on 28 September 1887, Mr Avery Brundage graduated from the University of Illinois in 1909 with a degree in civil engineering, magna cum laude.
		Down through the years, Mr Avery Brundage received countless decorations and awards from different countries, towns and organisations wishing to express their appreciation and gratitude.
		Avery Brundage died on 8 May 1975, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
	www.olympic.org /uk/organisation/ioc/presidents/brundage_uk.asp (232 words)

	Encyclopedia: Avery Brundage
		Tommie Smith (born June 5, 1944) is a former American athlete, winner of 200 m run at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
		Brundage may be best remembered for his decision during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, to continue the Games following the 5th September Palestinian terrorist attack which killed 11 Israel i athletes.
		Avery Brundage retired from the International Olympic Committee in 1972.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Avery-Brundage (1911 words)

	Stars & Stripes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Brundage said he was "greatly impressed by the size of operations and the quality of work being done" in preparation for the Summer Games Oct. 10-24.
		Brundage said he was particularly impressed by the unique building construction at Komazawa Sports Park where the Olympic soccer, field hockey and wrestling events will be held.
		Brundage said he was satisfied with the Olympic Village at Harajuku, formerly the Washington Heights Housing Area operated by the U.S. Security Forces.
	www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=126&article=27828&archive=true (697 words)

	Avery Brundage scholarship applications available online
		Previous Brundage scholarship winners have represented a wide variety of sports from archery and tennis to swimming and wheelchair basketball.
		The late Avery Brundage established the scholarships in 1974 with a $343,000 endowment to the University of Illinois Foundation.
		Brundage, a 1909 graduate of Illinois, competed in the 1912 Olympics and served as president of the U.S. and International Olympic committees.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /news/03/1117brundage.html (262 words)

	Twenty students win Brundage Scholarships
		The Avery Brundage Scholarship Fund Committee consists of eight representatives from the faculties and student bodies of the Chicago, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign campuses.
		The scholarship program was established in 1974 by an endowment from the late Avery Brundage, a UI alumnus and president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972.
		Brundage graduated from the UI in 1909 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /NEWS/01/0525brundage.html (364 words)

	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -
		annual Avery Brundage Scholarship competition for University of Illinois students who excel in both academics and athletics will be accepted Friday, November 8, through Friday, January 10, 2003.
		Avery Brundage was a 1909 graduate of the U of I who competed in the 1912 Olympics and later served as president of both the U.S. and International Olympic committees.
		Brundage established the scholarship in 1974 with an endowment to the U of I Foundation of $343,000.
	www.uis.edu /pressreleases/nov02PR/11_05_02.htm (309 words)

	The Avery Brundage Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As is well known to all whose interest focusses on Modern Olympic matters, Avery Brundage presided over the International Olympic Committee for a period of twenty tumultuous years, 1952-1972.
		For three quarters of a century, Brundage's career in sport and the Modern Olympic Movement is chronicled by perhaps the most unique and valuable single collection of primary Olympic source documentation known.
		Scholars doing Olympic research have found the 150 reels of microfilm comprising what is known as the Avery Brundage Collection to be a virtual treasure trove of primary source material.
	www.uwo.ca /olympic/avery.html (406 words)

	Eight students at Urbana campus win Avery Brundage Scholarships
		The Avery Brundage Scholarship Fund Committee consists of eight representatives from the faculties and student bodies of the three U. of I. campuses.
		The scholarship program was established in 1974 by an endowment from the late Avery Brundage, a 1909 U. of I. graduate and president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972.
		Brundage participated in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm as a pentathlete and decathlete.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /NEWS/05/0517brundage.html (252 words)

	Avery Brundage -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Brundage competed in the pentathlon and decathlon at the…;
		Irish author and businessman who in 1972 succeeded Avery Brundage as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after having served as IOC vice president since 1968.
		On Avery Island, Iberia Parish, La., the salt deposits were discovered in 1791.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9016770 (810 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Avery Brundage
		Sandy realised that until the departure of the long-serving American IOC president Avery Brundage little change was possible and action by national committees would only bring splits.
		Such an outrageous stance, said Avery Brundage, the late head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, who after the incident ordered Smith and Carlos stripped of their medals.
		As Avery Brundage, IOC president from 1952 to 1972, recognized as long ago as 1954: "As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.".
	sports.surfwax.com /files/Avery_Brundage.html (675 words)

	brundage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Whatever Avery Brundage tried was a success and in the area of track and field, he was equally successful as an athlete and administrator.
		Renowned as the president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972, Brundage also was president of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1929 to 1953.
		A graduate of the University of Illinois, Brundage later became a multimillionaire contractor who devoted a large part of his fortune to amateur athletics.
	www.usatf.org /athletes/hof/brundage.asp (158 words)

	Avery Brundage
		Founder and president of the Avery Brundage Company, Avery Brundage was an active businessman in real estate, manufacturing and the hotel industry.
		Representing the United States at the Games of the Olympiad at Stockholm in 1912 in the decathlon, Brundage was also USA all-around amateur champion in 1914, 1916 and 1918.
		An active supporter of amateur sports, Brundage was president of the United States Olypmic Association and Committee from 1929 to 1933, Vice-president of the International Olympic Committee from, 1945-52, president of the Pan-American Games Sporting Committee from 1940 to 1951, and president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/brundage_a/brundage_a.html (146 words)

	Avery Brundage
		Avery Brundage was president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972.
		He became president of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, and in 1928 became president of the American Olympic Committee, succeeding Douglas Macarthur.
		Avery Brundage died in 1975, leaving his collection of papers to the University of Illinois.
	www.library.uq.edu.au /olympics/brundage.html (187 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 22 \| 1972: Rhodesia out of Olympics
		The decision is a blow for the retiring IOC president, Avery Brundage, who had argued for Rhodesia's inclusion in the games.
		IOC President Avery Brundage compared the anti-Rhodesia campaign to the terrorist attack on the Olympic village
		Avery Brundage: "The invitation to the Rhodesian team to participate in the games has been withdrawn"
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/22/newsid_3549000/3549444.stm (611 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		The first of her many mystery stories, The Circular Staircase (1908), established her as a leading writer of the genre; Rinehart and Avery Hopwood successfully dramatized the nove...
		Lomax, Alan Lomax, Alan: see under Lomax, John Avery.
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	Museum collection is the city's best, thanks to industrialist Avery Brundage
		In 1960, 137 Asian art objects from the collection of Chicago industrialist Avery Brundage were shown at the de Young Museum.
		The show preceded a June election that had a bond issue on the ballot to meet Brundage's condition for donating his collection to the city -- that an appropriate building be constructed to house it.
		Three years later, Brundage donated the remainder of his art holdings, and the city formed the Asian Art Commission to oversee what was then still called the Center for Asian Art and Culture.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/30/PK39001.DTL&type=printable (834 words)

	USATF - Hall of Fame
		A highly successful businessman, Avery Brundage was equally successful as an athlete and administrator.
		Brundage was president of the Central Amateur Athletic Union from 1928 to 1933; president of the AAU in those same years and again in 1935; and president of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1929 to 1953.
		A multimillionaire contractor, Brundage devoted a large portion of his fortume to amateur athletics.
	www.usatf.org /HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=25 (159 words)

	AllRefer.com - Avery Brundage (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avery Brundage[A´vurE brun´dij] Pronunciation Key, 1887–1975, American sports executive, b.
		Detroit, Mich. A member of the 1912 U.S. Olympic track and field team, he became a leader of the Olympic movement and an unyielding spokesperson for amateur sports.
		As president of the International Olympic Committee (1952–72), he is remembered for continuing the 1972 Munich games after their interruption by the terrorist massacre of Israeli athletes.
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