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	Jean Shiley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Shiley Newhouse (November 20, 1911 - March 11, 1998) is a former American high jumper.
		She was born as Jean Shiley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Havertown, PA, where she joined the team at Haverford High School.
		Shiley tied with Babe Didrikson in the trials for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Shiley (186 words)

	Delaware County Sports Legends Exibit - Jean Shiley
		A star in field hockey, basketball, track, and tennis at Haverford High, Jean was a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1928, when she was only a junior in high school.
		They were tied at 5 feet 5 1/4 inches, and Jean won the jump-off to capture the gold medal and also set a new world record.
		Jean was later inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.
	www.delcobaseball.org /halloffame/jean_shiley.html (156 words)

	shiley
		When women first competed in Olympic track and field at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, one of the youngest competitors in the field was Jean Shiley, a 16-year-old student at Haverford Township High School in Pennsylvania.
		Shiley also set the American indoor record in 1929 and 1930 and the latter mark of 5-3 1/4 remained the American indoor record for 38 years.
		A 1933 graduate of Temple University, she was the captain of the 1932 Olympic women's track and field team and remained active until 1936 when she was declared a "professional" for teaching swimming and serving as a lifeguard.
	www.usatf.org /athletes/hof/shiley.asp (264 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Jean Shiley
		A high school star in basketball, field hockey, and tennis as well as track, Shiley was a member of the U. Olympic team in 1928, when she was only a junior in high school.
		Shiley entered Temple University in 1929 and competed for Philadelphia's Meadowbrook Club because the school didn't offer women's track.
		Shiley and Didrikson both cleared that height, another world record, but officials ruled that Didrikson had used an illegal technique and Shiley won the gold.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/shileyjean.shtml (195 words)

	Jean Shiley
		Shiley USA, 1.66 m, Mildred Didriksen USA, 1.66 m, Eva Dawes Canada, 1.60 m.
		Shiley, USA, set the world record in 1932 with a leap of just 1.65m the height of an average woman.
		Shiley, but lost the title on a technicality.
	www.cordah.co.uk /jean_shiley.html (306 words)

	DOL of Fame - March 6, 2001
		Shiley was given the gold medal and Didrikson was awarded the silver medal (actually it was half-gold and half-silver, the only such medal in Olympics history) when officials ruled Babe out for using the "Western Roll".
		The International Amateur Federation sanctioned Didrikson's jump as the world record, which she held jointly with Shiley for six years.
		The 1932 Olympic jump of Didrikson and Shiley stood as the best effort in the United States for 23 years.
	dolshouse.com /fame01/06.htm (582 words)

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		She placed fourth in the discus, an event with which she was not very familiar and which was won at 133 feet by Ruth Osborn of Shelbyville, Mo. Lillian Copeland, who two weeks later won the Olympic title, placed third.
		But the Babe won five events and tied with Jean Shiley of the Meadowbrook Club, Philadelphia, in the high jump at the new world record height of 5 ft. 3 3/16 in.
		It was here that the Babe renewed her rivalry with the tall, beautiful Jean Shiley of Philadelphia.
	www.trackandfieldnews.com /general/back_track/38_39.html (1748 words)

	Sports in the 1930's
		Jean Shiley failed on her first attempt but Didrickson was able to just clear the bar.
		Shiley missed again on her second attempt but made good on her third and the bar was raised to 1.70 meters.
		Shiley failed to clear this height but Didrikson was able to on her third attempt to win her third Gold medal in the 1932 games.
	www.sportplanet.com /sbb/apfas/30R.HTM (9555 words)

	USATF - Hall of Fame
		Shiley won the national title three years in succession from 1929 to 1931 before tying Babe Didriksen for the title in 1932.
		Shiley also set the American indoor record of 5' 3 1/4", which remained unbroken for 38 years.
		A 1933 graduate of Temple University, Shiley was the captain of the 1932 Olympic women's track and field team.
	www.usatf.org /HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=152 (261 words)

	Amazon.com: "Jean Shiley": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One of the athletes, Jean Shiley, remembered, "It was so hot that one of the girls ordered a 100-pound block of ice and we all took...
		She tied Jean Shiley for first place in the high jump with 5 feet 3/16 inch, an AAU record.
		Sixteen-year-old high jumper Jean Shiley came out of nowhere when she went to the Olympic trials held in Newark in 1928.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Jean-Shiley (532 words)

	Olympics & Olympians-Other Sports-GoTeamsGo Sports Fan Forum
		My fathers' sister, my Aunt Jean won a Gold Medal in the Olympics....later in life she was a member of the Olympic Committee.
		As a member of the Haverford Township (Pa.) High School basketball team, Jean Shiley's leaping ability drew the attention of a local reporter, who suggested that she try out for the 1928 Olympic team as a high jumper.
		Here is a site that shows sports back in the 1930's at a time when Babe Didriksen and Jean Shiley where going at each other.
	www.goteamsgo.com /forum/other-sports/8031-olympics-and-olympians.html (482 words)

	Olympics
		She set world records in the javelin (139 feet, three inches), 80-meter hurdles (11.9 seconds), high jump (5 feet, 3 3/16 inches, tying for first with Jean Shiley) and baseball throw (272 feet, 2 inches).
		She won the first Olympic women's competition in the javelin (143 feet, 4 inches) and 80-meter hurdles, setting a world record with her time of 11.7 seconds.
		In the high jump, she and Jean Smiley both broke the world record at 5-foot-5¼, but Smiley received the gold and Babe the silver when Babe was disqualified on a dubious ruling after her final jump.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /Greats/Century/Olympics.htm (1668 words)

	A trivial test of Olympic lore
		X -In the women's high jump, Jean Shiley cleared the same height as another athlete but was awarded the gold.
		Name the athlete who settled for silver and why Shiley was awarded the gold.
		XI - Jesse Owens wasn't scheduled to run in the 4x100 relays, but he, along with Ralph Metcalfe, replaced two runners as the team went on to win the gold by 15 yards and set a world record that would last for 20 years.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/examiner/article.cgi?year=1996&month=07&day=18&article=SPORTS15263.dtl (636 words)

	GolfDigest.com - One amazing Babe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In her final event, the high jump, Didrikson tied with the American team captain, Jean Shiley, for the gold medal.
		Shiley was awarded the gold, Didrikson the silver.
		Regardless, the plain girl from Texas had run and jumped and crowed her way into the consciousness of a country with bread lines and soup kitchens.
	golfdigest.com /newsandtour/index.ssf?/newsandtour/gw20030502babe.html (2990 words)

	Australian Olympic Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She initially tied for first place in the high jump with countrywoman Jean Shiley.
		They considered her style to be illegal, because her head preceded her body and legs over the bar - thus handing Shiley the gold medal.
		For some strange reason Didrikson’s style was only considered to be illegal to determine the ultimate winner of the high jump and she was given a share of the new world record height that she and Shiley had cleared, as well as receiving the silver medal.
	www.olympics.com.au /news.cfm?ArticleID=6620 (538 words)

	America 1930-1939: Sports History: Mildred "Babe" Didrikson \| American Decades
		She might have won another gold medal in the high jump, but her "western roll" style of diving over the bar was ruled illegal, even though she had been using it all along.
		Although she broke her own world record of 5 feet, 5 inches, as did Jean Shiley (with whom she also tied at the qualifying matches in Evanston), Didrikson was awarded the silver and Shiley the gold.
		Babe was named American Woman Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in 1932, an honor she would win five more times in her career.
	www.bookrags.com /history/america-1930s-sports/sub23.html (468 words)

	Jean Shiley - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She was born as Jean Shiley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
		At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles she won the Olympic gold medal.
		Shiley held the world record between 1932 and 1939.
	education.music.us.cob-web.org:8888 /J/Jean-Shiley.htm (268 words)

	Memorable Olympic Moments: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 1932
		Then she broke the world record in the first women's Olympic 80-meter hurdles with a time of 11.7 seconds.
		She actually tied for the gold in the high jump with Jean Shiley, but was only awarded the silver after it was determined that her jumping style was illegal.
		Always ahead of her time, Babe's head crossed the bar before her body, much like the "Fosbury Flop" that is the popular style today.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/mm-zaharias.html (482 words)

	Sports: Didriksen offers dominating preview of future greatness
		She won Olympic gold in the javelin and 80-meter hurdles, and might have shared a third gold in the high jump, but judges said her technique was illegal, violating rules against diving over the bar.
		She was given the silver even though she tied Shiley, the gold medalist, matching her world record.
		Didriksen won or shared 10 AAU titles in six events and would have had more had she not become a professional basketball player.
	www.sptimes.com /News/111199/Sports/Didriksen_offers_domi.shtml (502 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Achievements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In winning the U.S. Womenâs Amateur in 1945, she turned back the finest women golfers of the era, including Louise Suggs, Maureen Orcott, Helen Sigel, Dorothy Kirby and Peggy Kirk.
		In actual competition she beat Miss Kirk, Betty Jean Rucker, Miss Orcott (5 and 4), and Miss Sigel (3 and 2), and then smashed Clara Callender Sherman 11 and 9 in the 36 hole title round, a record margin.
		green and beat Jean Donald, the Scotland champion, by 7 and 5, in the semifinals.
	www.babedidriksonzaharias.org /page_two.cfm (607 words)

	ESPN Classic - More Info on Babe Didrikson
		In a span of three hours, the 21-year-old Didrikson competed in eight of 10 events, winning five outright and tying for first in a sixth.
		She set world records in the javelin (139 feet, 3 inches), 80-meter hurdles (11.9 seconds), high jump (5 feet, 3 3/16 inches, tying for first with Jean Shiley) and baseball throw (272 feet, 2 inches).
		Didrikson also took first in the shot put (39 feet, 6¼ inches) and long jump (17 feet, 6 5/8 inches) and finished fourth in the discus.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/000804babedidriksonadd.html (807 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		She first came to national prominence at the 1932 AAU Championships, when her team, Employer's Casualty, won the team title.
		At the Olympics, she won the javelin throw, and the high hurdles, and finished second in the high jump, after a jump-off in which she lost to Jean Shiley (USA).
		In 1932, women were restricted to competing in only three individual events in track & field athletics.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?heros=87909 (217 words)

	Athens Olympic Games 2004 - 1932 Los Angeles
		The Texas girl, all by herself, won or tied for first place in a half dozen events in the national women's track and field championships, collecting enough points to win the team title.
		She captured the Olympic javelin throw and 80-meter hurdles with world's record performances and finished second to Miss Jean Shiley in the high jump.
		She has played football, is a star at basketball and wallops a golf ball well over 200 yards.
	guy-sports.com /olympics/athens_olympics_2004_1932.htm (352 words)

	The New York Times: This Day In Sports
		1932: Babe Didrikson and her United States teammate Jean Shiley both cleared the world-record height of 5 feet 53/4 inches in a jump-off at the Los Angeles Olympics, but the judges ruled that Didrikson had "dived" across the bar head first, torso second.
		She was given the silver medal while Shiley got the gold.
		The uproar soon caused the rules to be changed, but too late for the Babe.
	www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/08.07.html (681 words)

	CNN/SI - Golf Plus - SI Flashback: Farewell to the Babe - Friday December 03, 1999 01:09 AM
		Five of these -- the 80-meter hurdles, the baseball thrown, the shotput, the broad jump and the javelin toss -- she won outright; and in the high jump, although she equaled the world record jump of winner Jean Shiley, she was just nosed out of a tie.
		After she tied with Jean Shiley for first place, at a world-record height, Babe cleared the bar in the jumpoff but was ruled to have dived over.
		Thus she lost the record and the event.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /golf/news/1999/12/02/didrikson_flashback (1792 words)

	Jean Shiley, U.S., high jumper 1932 Olympics gold November 20 in History
		Jean Shiley, U.S., high jumper 1932 Olympics gold November 20 in History
		Jean Shiley, U.S., high jumper 1932 Olympics gold
		The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1911/november_20_1911_74484.html (47 words)

	:: Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays ::
		She won the 80m hurdles, long jump, shot put, javelin throw and baseball throw, tied for first in the high jump (at an American record 1.60m) with Jean Shiley, and finished fourth in the discus all in a period of three hours.
		In the high jump, Babe and Shiley again tied for first with a world record (1.65), but Babe lost the gold in a jump-off.
		Two weeks later, she threw the discus 40.80m (farther than the Olympic gold medalist), which remained an American record until 1956.
	www.texassports.com /mainpages/txr/2004/032704_11.html (2031 words)

	Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Home Page
		â“ Tied for the 1932 Olympics title with an Olympic record jump for 5 feet 5 inches with Jean Shiley.
		Â Miss Shiley was given the gold medal and Miss Didrikson was accorded the silver medal (actually it was half-gold and half-silver, the only such medal in Olympics history) when officials ruled Babe out for using the âWestern Rollâ.
		Â Miss Didrikson tied for the AAU â“ sanctioned United States high jump championship in 1932 with Miss Shiley with a jump of 5 feet, 3 inches.
	www.babedidriksonzaharias.org /achievements.cfm (798 words)

	The Ten - Sport - www.theage.com.au
		In 1932, when she was only 18, she won enough points in the American women's team title to win on her own.
		Subsequently, at the Los Angeles Olympics, she won the javelin and 80-metre hurdles and cleared the same height as the winner in the high jump, only for the judges to award the gold medal to teammate Jean Shiley because her technique was said to be dubious.
		Didrikson, always a prickly character, quit amateur ranks and toured the US, earning cash through her abilities in running, swimming, tennis, baseball and billiards.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Sport/The-Ten/2005/02/05/1107476852226.html (1225 words)

	Bruin Greats JJK And "Ducky" Drake Named USATF National Track & Field Hall Of Fame Finalists :: Hall of Fame Inductions ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		LAWSON ROBERTSON: Head coach of the Irish-American AC from 1908 through 1916, and the University of Pennsylvania from 1916 to 1947, Robertson is the only person selected as men's Olympic head coach more than once, serving in 1924, '28, '32 and '36.
		Among the many great athletes he coached are five inductees of the Hall of Fame: John Flanagan, Abel Kiviat, Ted Meredith, Mel Sheppard and Jean Shiley.
		At least 22 athletes made U.S. Olympic teams while under his care, including three gold medalists, with another eight of his athletes earning gold at other points in their careers.
	uclabruins.cstv.com /sports/w-track/spec-rel/081804aab.html (2876 words)

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