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	Bill Bowerman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bowerman graduated from Medford Senior High School in Medford, Oregon, where he played for the state champion football team his junior and senior years.
		Bowerman designed several Nike shoes, but is best known for ruining his wife's waffle iron in 1970, experimenting with the idea of using waffle-ironed rubber to create a new sole for footwear that would grip but be lightweight.
		Bowerman's design inspiration led to the introduction of the so-called "Moon Shoe" in 1972, so named because the waffle tread was said to resemble the footprints left by astronauts on the moon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Bowerman (628 words)

	Dr J on Running - Bill Bowerman (1911-1999)
		Bill Bowerman died in his sleep on Christmas morning at the age of 88.
		Born on February 9, 1911 in Portland, Oregon, Bill Bowerman studied physical education at the University of Oregon, where he taught and coached the track team at the University of Oregon from 1949 through 1972.
		Bowerman's legend revolved around the use of his wife's waffle iron to mold rubber soles in 1972.
	running.syr.edu /column/19991227.html (705 words)

	The Bill Bowerman Coaching Award
		Bill Bowerman, the legendary University of Oregon track coach from 1949-1972, introduced to the U.S. the importance of jogging and fitness.
		In honor of Bowerman's lifetime contributions to the sport of running, the National Distance Running Hall of Fame established The Bill Bowerman Coaching Award in 2001 to recognize Bowerman's outstanding coaching ability, his idealism, and his inspirational guidance.
		Bowerman will be remembered most for the positive impact he had on the lives of his athletes and any others who fell under his spell.
	www.nike.com /cb/about.html (306 words)

	The Bill Rodgers Running Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bill Rodgers dominated the roads from 1978 to 1980.
		Bill had a lot to do with the changes in the sport that allowed athletes to be paid for their efforts.
		Bill took Pre's energy and drive to the roads and continued the dominance that these two great American runners had, at their best.
	www.billrodgers.com /aboutus/aboutUs_brrcHistory_letterPre.htm (1119 words)

	The NCAA News: Briefly in the News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In her introduction to the bill, Goldberg wrote that many people and organizations believe "the continued use of Native American images and nicknames in school sports is a barrier to equality and understanding" and that "all residents of the United States would benefit from the discontinuance of their use."
		Bowerman was a legendary track coach at the University of Oregon from 1949 to 1972, where he led the Ducks to four NCAA team championships and coached 64 all-Americans, 24 individual NCAA champions and 33 Olympians.
		Bowerman also was one of the founders of Nike and is credited with inventing a waffle-iron shoe sole that's still popular today.
	www.ncaa.org /news/2002/20020513/briefly.html (926 words)

	CNN/SI - More Sports - Track coach, co-founder of Nike dies - Saturday December 25, 1999 06:03 PM
		Bowerman created the modern running shoe in the late 1960s by fashioning a lightweight sole with leather, glue, latex and his wife's waffle iron.
		Bowerman called the Munich Olympics the "worst experience I've had in my entire educational and athletic life." An attack left 11 Israeli athletes dead, along with five terrorists and a West German policeman.
		Bowerman, who was born in Portland, is survived by his wife, Barbara, and sons, Jon, Jay and Tom, and four grandchildren.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/news/1999/12/25/bowerman_obit_ap (569 words)

	Nikebiz : About Nike : Heritage : Players : Bill Bowerman
		Like Bowerman, he was known for finding ways to win that nobody else thought of (or dared to do).
		Bowerman was always looking for ways to give his runners an edge.
		Throughout his time with Nike, Bowerman was always the one person who had no trouble whatsoever staying focused on the performance mandate of athletic product.
	www.nike.com /nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=5&item=bill (613 words)

	Hanging with the legends
		Bill Bowerman and his record-breaking 4x1 mile team from the University of Oregon are guests of Arthur Lydiard.
		Bowerman coached at the University of Oregon from 1949 to 1972.
		Bill Bowerman is respectfully approached by a young Kenyan runner who wants to meet him and ask him a few questions.
	www.ontherunevents.com /news/0066.sht (2941 words)

	University Archives: Bill Bowerman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bill Bowerman, hailed as one of the world's leading track and field authorities, was coach at the University of Oregon for a tremendously successful 24 years.
		In addition, Bowerman is known as "the man who brought jogging to America," after becoming an overwhelming supporter of the activity during a 1962 trip to New Zealand.
		In addition to his athletic legacy, Bowerman is commemorated on campus by a statue and a building named for him and at Hayward field, and a track scholarship.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /speccoll/archives/bower.html (468 words)

	Gary Sobel Physiotherapist
		Bowerman was interested in only one thing: making sure his athletes performed at their peak.
		Bowerman understood that when runners find a pair of shoes that work for them, they want to replace them with another pair of similar shoes when that pair has worn out.
		The Bowerman range of shoes continues from year to year with the same overall construction of the shoes, with only minor structural changes and/or cosmetic changes such as the colour of the shoe.
	myweb.absa.co.za /gsobel/Nike.html (593 words)

	Grandma's Marathon :: Activities - Guest Speakers
		Bill Squires is regarded by many as one of the greatest coaches in U.S. history.
		Bill’s love of running began in high school when he was a star miler at Arlington High School in Arlington, Mass.
		Bill was a successful teacher and coach at Boston State College, but it has been said that his greatest accomplishments came when he became the founding coach of the Greater Boston Track Club.
	www.grandmasmarathon.com /activities/guest_speakers.php (1029 words)

	Nikebiz : About Nike : Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bowerman, the inimitable University of Oregon coach, brought jogging to America, built an unrivaled track and field program at that university, and taught his athletes to seek the competitive advantage everywhere - in their bodies, their gear and their passion.
		Bowerman was always seeking ways to improve Tiger designs, and Knight never could stand the thought of shilling for somebody else when he could shill for himself.
		Johnson joined Knight and Bowerman's Blue Ribbon Sports company as its first full-time employee, selling shoes out of the back of his van at high school track meets in 1965.
	www.nike.com /nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=5&item=bill (347 words)

	How the Rajneesh land swap in the Õ80s was stopped
		Bill Bowerman came into my congressional office in the Federal Building one day in the early 1980s.
		Bill told me of a religious band called the Rajneesh, that he considered evil.
		With one of Bowerman's sons, John, who operated a ranch to the south, we rowed a boat along the river, and even swam to the shore of the Big Muddy to see guards armed with AK-47s patrolling their perimeter.
	home.att.net /~meditation/Weaver.html (945 words)

	Bill Bowerman
		Bill was a 2002 inductee into the National Distance Running Hall of Fame.
		Pre (Billy Crudup) and Bowerman (Donald Sutherland) have a short, tense exchange immediately after Pre's first 3-mile race at the U.O. In this scene, Bowerman truly learns the coaching challenge that he has on his hands.
		Bill's wife Barbara was in normal energetic form.
	www.europa.com /~bence/pre/bb.htm (559 words)

	Bill Bowerman
		He was the co-founder and ultra-innovator of Nike, Inc., but the late Bill Bowerman was always a running man first.
		Bowerman, of course, is credited with creating the first lightweight outsole shoe from some latex, leather, glue and his wife’s waffle iron.
		A true innovator, beloved coach, educator and benefactor, Bowerman will always be considered a giant in not just running but in the entire world of athletics.
	www.distancerunning.com /inductees/2002/bowerman.html (368 words)

	Nike, Inc. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike, dies on Dec. 24 at age 88.
		Under that bill's terms, Beaverton is specifically barred from forcibly annexing the land that Nike and Columbia Sportswear occupy in unincorporated Washington County for 35 years, while Electro Scientific Industries and Tektronix get that same protection for 30 years.
		Current members of the board of directors of Nike are: John G. Connors, Jill Conway, Alan Graf, Douglas Houser, Jeanne Jackson, Phil Knight, Orin Smith, and John Thompson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nike,_Inc. (2567 words)

	Untitled Document
		Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman were the founders of Nike.
		Bill was already one of the top U.S. track coaches and Phil Knight was a middle distance runner on Bill's track team.
		The shoes were based on a foam cushion heel wedge and were designed by Bill Bowerman December 26, 1967.
	www.swms.ocps.net /biggy.htm (837 words)

	ESPN.com - MORESPORTS - Nike co-founder Bowerman dies
		Bill Bowerman was a successful track coach whose innovations helped change the world of sports.
		Bowerman said he had been concerned at the outset about security in the Olympic village.
		Bowerman, who was born in Portland, is survived by his wife, Barbara, and sons, Jon Bowerman, Jay Bowerman and Tom Bowerman, and four grandchildren.
	espn.go.com /moresports/news/1999/1225/252573.html (582 words)

	Untitled Document
		Finally in the late 70’s Phil and Bills business kicked off and they changed their name to Nike.
		He was always interested in sports as a younger kid and did the sports article for his high school newspaper.
		Bill was a track coach when he met Phil.
	www.swms.ocps.net /sigh.htm (215 words)

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		Bowerman, who once used his wife's waffle iron to help Knight fashion soles for innovative shoes, also was one of the toughest coaches in track, according to Knight.
		Bowerman was known for hazing his team and subjecting them to practical jokes after long workouts, rarely offering praise.
		Among Bowerman's pupils was the late Steve Prefontaine.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /sports/news-article.aspx?storyid=55351 (521 words)

	Mail Tribune Sports - Bowerman among Medford's greats
		Bowerman was there when Medford football was first put on the map by coach Prink Callison.
		Bowerman's great-grandfather homesteaded in the 1830s in Wheeler County, where Bill Bowerman, 88, and his wife of 63 years, Barbara, live today.
		Bowerman showed his interest in giving back to this community one more time before he headed north to coach Oregon.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/sept99/92899s2.htm (1402 words)

	Eagle Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For the eagle research, Amy Roe, an environmental toxicology graduate student, accompanied assistant professor Bill Bowerman and other researchers to sites in Northern Minnesota and Michigan where they sampled feathers and blood from eagle nestlings retrieved from nests as high as 130 feet off the ground.
		In the case of Roe's research, the findings showed that the level of mercury, a heavy metal that's a frequent by-product of industrial wastes, had actually dropped over the past 10 years in northern Minnesota.
		Bowerman said those results will be useful in establishing a pollution baseline for coastal eagle populations.
	clemsonews.clemson.edu /WWW_releases/2000/April2000/Eagle_Research.html (453 words)

	Interview Kenny Moore
		Bowerman was the central organizing factor of a lot more lives than just Pre's.
		In 1990, Bill Landers, who worked with Bill at Oregon and was a dear friend, and I were commanded by Bowerman to present ourselves on his deck above the McKenzie.
		It was good to be able to take him a page I found in one of Bowerman's notebooks where he listed the greatest thrills in his life, and Dellinger winning the 1954 NCAA mile and starting the great Oregon avalanche was at the top.
	sports.mainetoday.com /running/musca/020807musca.shtml (1841 words)

	The Running Network -- National News -- Article
		Johnson, one of the first employees of Nike and personally hired by Bowerman, was the coach of the Nike Farm Team for seven years.
		The 2003 Bowerman Coaching Award will be presented at the 6th Annual Induction Ceremony of the National Distance Running Hall of Fame on July 12, 2003 in Utica, NY.
		Bowerman coached the University of Oregon Track and Field team from 1949-1972, leading the Ducks to four NCAA team championships.
	www.runningnetwork.com /news/bowermanawardnomination03.html (390 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		But the elevation of athletic shoe manufacture to both a science and a fashion was due largely due to Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman of Oregon.
		Bowerman's most memorable technical breakthrough was the optimal traction of the waffle soles he invented by shaping rubber in the waffle iron in his kitchen (1972).
		Though fashion remains a matter of taste, it is undeniable that both world-class athletes and even the average aerobics enthusiast owe a debt to the innovations of Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman, and to the industry they inspired.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/bowermanknight.html (315 words)

	The Bill Bowerman Story
		he Bill Bowerman story, featured on Nike, pays tribute to the legendary athletic visionary, designer, and teacher who made an unparalleled impact on the world of sports and American fitness culture.
		Bowerman made the University of Oregon the running capital of the world, coached dozens of milers to break four minutes, created the American jogging phenomenon, and revolutionized the running shoe.
		To better his athletes, Bowerman reinvented the track, the clothes, and his holy grail, the shoe.
	www.secondstory.com /collection/31bowerman/text.html (271 words)

	William Dellinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He won a bronze medal in the 5000 meters at Tokyo in 1964.
		After retiring, he was an assistant coach to Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon.
		He became head coach after Bowerman's retirement in 1972.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Dellinger (114 words)

	Without Limits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Without Limits is a 1998 biographical film about the friendship between running star Steve Prefontaine and his coach Bill Bowerman, who would later co-found Nike, Inc. Billy Crudup played Prefontaine and Donald Sutherland played Bowerman.
		Tom Cruise wanted to play the role of Steve Prefontaine himself but decided he was too old.
		Tommy Lee Jones turned down the part of Bill Bowerman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Without_Limits (177 words)

	Nike, Inc
		Bowerman was track coach at the University of Oregon, where Phil Knight ran from 1955 to 1959.
		Bowerman resorted to buying racing spikes from adidas, but the prices were too high.
		Bill Bowerman, who had been a financial supporter of Knight from the beginning, also contributed his shoe making knowledge.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364proj/fall_97/jenci/nike.htm (1190 words)

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