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Black Athletes Dominate
U. S. Olympic Team; 20 on
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AN ASSOCIATED NEGRO
PRESS SPECIAL
When the li>60 Olympic
open in Rome, Italy, August
the Uniter! States will he
sented by what is believed to
the mightiest array of track
ever selected to carry iG banner.
Not even in the days of
great Jesse Owens was the U.
so endowed with talents for
August event, the acme of
sports throughout the world,
Of the 52 athletes on the U.
team, 20 are Negroes,
that tan athletes have
in dominating the squad.
This enviable group up of
performers are led by two
who stand head and shoulder
their field. Both are considered
cinch to bring America a
medal in his particular specialty.
They are John Thomas,
tional 19-year-old Roston
sity world champion high
and Rafer Johnson, the newly
crowned decathlon champion.
While setting their latest in
series of world records, both
fied for the U. S. team in
recent Olympic Trials at
University in Palo Alto,
in what was described by
as the greatest track show
earth. They were the best of
27 other top athletes.
Thomas’ performance was
sational as usual, but far surpas
ed all expectations. The
husky athlete soared 7 feet 3 V,
inches, smashing all his
marks. He has scaled 7 feet
better on 30 'different
and is considered a bet, for a
medal : at Rome this summer.
The same is predicted for
son, 24-year-old II -uiu University or of '
fornia at Los Angeles star.
compiled the greatest point
ever in the recent gruelling
event decathlon test in the national
Amateur Athletic Union
championship. Johnson, in a
ant display of power, stamina
talent, amassed a total of
points, to surpass by more
326 the old record of 8,357 set
Russia’s Vasily Kuznetsov last
year. In 1959 Vasily bettered John-
sioh’S old world mark of 8,302
in Moscow in 1958.
Rafer is expected to be
challenged by 0. K. Yans, a
TflCLA teamiiate
Formosa and Vasily, but is
ed to win.
Significantly, both Thomas
Johnson made great comebacks
lowing accidents which
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to end their track careers.
Thomas jammed his
foot in an elevator on the Boston
campus more than a year ago and
had to undergo a delicate skin-
grafting operation. He was fo'ced
into a long layoff but in the first
meet following his return to
action, he leaped more than 7 feet
and proceeded to set several new
records.
Johnson suffered hack and leg
injuries on June 11, 1950. He, too,
was laid up for at least a year.
The other tan stars and the
white athletes on the squad also
have enviable records. Some are
former Olympic gold medal, ts.
, Ihu.s, on their records, and judk
ing by the showing of a less bril¬
liant U. S. team in the 1956 Olym¬
pics in Australia, Uncle Sam will
i be a big favorite to win top honors.
Other colored members of the
U. S. team and their respective
divisions are:
Frank Rudd, Villanova Univer¬
sity sophomore and l’au! Winder,
Morgan State College, 100 meter
dash; Irvin Roberson, Cornell Uni¬
versity star, broad jump; and Ira
Davis of LaSalle College and Bill
Sharpe, West Chester Teachers
College, hop-step and jump.
Ray Norton, sometimes called
the world’s fastest human and
former San Jose College star. 100
j and 200 meter events; Stone and John-
son of Grambling College Lg
I Carney, Ohio University graduate,
meters; Otis Davis of Oregon
I and Ted Woods, Colorado IJniver
1 sity sophmore, 400 meters, and
Deacon” Jones, ex-Iowa Univer¬
sity star, 30000 meter steple-
chase.
i i ---- Calhoun, > 1056 Olympic ■
J champion Una College and star; formei Willie North May Caro nod
J Hayes Jones, 110 meter high hurd
les; Dick Howard, New Mexico, in
the 40(1 meter hurdles; Ralph Ros¬
ton of Tennessee ASM University,
in the broad jump and Herman
Stokes of Los Angeles in the hop,
step and jump, and Charlie Du¬
mas, California, high jump.
Team members have been order¬
ed to keep in shape by exercising
at leu i t three times a week until
they report for initial pre-Olympic
workouts at Eugene, Oregon July
25. Practice meets have been
scheduled for,-tjie |squijd on July
30, August 5 and August 12.
The team will fly to New York
on AiSgust. 13, leave on August 18
for Switzerland, and proceed to
Rome, arriving about August 23.
Tuesday, July 19.
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