Set a masters mile world record while competing in the NCAA
He ran 22 miles in 2 hours before coming to the NCAA. His NCAA times were 421 mile and 907 2 mile.
Back then it took sub 410 and sub 9 to be nationally ranked, thus thats about the only info I could find other than that article.
Norris was a big time internationalist for Great Britain. He ran in the 1952 and '56 Olympics and probably would have run at Rome but was hurt. He won the International Cross Country Championship in 1958, I think it was '58. He'd been a coal miner since his teens and trained by running to and from work. He said in winter he only saw the sun at weekends.
I haven't re-read the article. I'm not sure if it says how the scholarship to McNeese State happened but he wanted to get out of the mine and that was a way to do it. I do recall from the article that things didn't go as well for him as hoped. He needed his wife to have a job if he wasn't going to be working and they had a hard time adjusting to life in the Deep South. I'm pretty sure he didn't graduate. But they did stay in the US and he found some sort of work not in a mine. I think they ended up in Brockton, Ma. He set the masters' record at the Mount Washington Road Race and it until very recently. His son Ed won the AAU Marathon Championship in 1972, again, I think it was '72.
He died of black lung in his mid 80s. Ed died of a heart attack not too long after that.
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Sort of. There is a rule on eligibility and when it starts. Normally.wpuld end 6 years after high school. But your crying is unwarranted. The average age of the winners of all events at outdoor last year was 21.
So these 28 year old runners graduated high school at age 22?
Solomon Kipchoge of Kenya just committed to Texas Tech. He has run 59:37 for the half marathon and is 28 years old. If he was American he would not be eligible, no?
There needs to be age limits with exemptions for US Military Service, etc
a 3 year grace period past normal high school age is gracious
so say must complete NCAA eligibility before age 26
freshman can be 18/19/20/21 and so forth
what we want to prevent is athletes competing as pro til age 28 then realizing they will never make it so they accept a $60,000plus scholarship to college in the USA.
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