19th placer Steve Crane would go to win the following year on his home course.
19th placer Steve Crane would go to win the following year on his home course.
Whoops! I meant Big 10 champion, not NCAA champion. That was back in the days of Salazar and Rono. At the NCAA championships in Madison in January 1979, I believe Lacy was fifth. Rono went way off course because of the snow.
Tinman wrote:
Yes, you are right! Craig won the World Cross Country titles in 1980 and 1981. I think John Treacy (sp?) won 1978 and 1979. Thanks for the help.
Tinman, methinks you made another error. Altho Virgin won 1975 NCAA I believe Henry Rono won 1976 NCAA in Denton,TX.
19th placer Steve Crane would go to win the following year on his home course.[/quote]
Australian?
desert rodent wrote:
19th placer Steve Crane would go to win the following year on his home course.
Australian?[/quote]
Either Australian or British as I recall.
desert rodent wrote:
Australian?
Yes, Crane was an Aussie.
Just Found These wrote:
16. G.A.Donakowski MI 25:09
18. Mark Mesler MI ST 25:16
29. Michael White MI ST 25:39
53. W.J.Weidenbach MI 26:50
G.A. would go on to do some fine running. Mesler is in the banking biz in Honolulu, White now the principal at Ann Arbor Pioneer & W.J.'s ex-wife did a little running and his uncle was, briefly, UMich AD.
I believe Gerard is a rep for adidas.
malmo wrote:
Yes, Crane was an Aussie.
And still is!
He was a very nice guy in his racing days and also remains a good guy today.
Living in the Past wrote:
Whoops! I meant Big 10 champion, not NCAA champion. That was back in the days of Salazar and Rono. At the NCAA championships in Madison in January 1979, I believe Lacy was fifth. Rono went way off course because of the snow.
Whoops again! NCAA championships were indeed held in Madison, but it was Monday before Thanksgiving, November 1978. However, you are correct about there being snow on the ground - what we in the upper midwest call a "light dusting."
Of course, you are pardoned, that event being held nearly THREE DECADES ago. Living in the Past, indeed.
malmo wrote:
I learned something new today, John Glidewell went to Ohio State.
I said that a couple weeks ago. I don't think he used all of his eligibility there though
Runner magazine had a great article covering that race. Lot of pictures. It looked pretty cold, sub 20 degrees.
The picture of the main pack I'm pretty sure had Thom Hunt leading Salazar, Chapa, and Marc Hunter from Cleveland State.
Cold it was. Salazar and Rudy wore pantyhose (life pre-lycra). Gophers went "lumberjack," wearing flannel shirts under our singlets a la Herb Lindsay. Bare legs though, no pantyhose.
Hey squid, thanks for setting me straight. At least I got the town and the weather conditions right. By the way, that was a brutal winter in Madison in 1978/1979, wasn't it? That "light dusting" was about the last time anyone saw a blade of grass until middle of March. And as I recall (admittedly with a flawed memory), the daily highs in Madison that particular winter were continuously below freezing from Thanksgiving until early March. As a guy from Texas, I thought it was great to see a real winter.
I was there as a spectator and for years had a mimeograph list of the results.
Nov. (19) 1978, the same day Jim Jones and all those cult followers gunned down a congressman and drank that cyanide Kool-Aid.
In Madison it was 20 degrees, snowing, and windy. Runners were wearing all sorts of gear from leotards, to thermal-type long johns, to panty hose. Some braved it in shorts and singlets.
Rono had been undefeated and was considered unbeatable but he fell in the first mile and jogged in a 36 min 10k. Oregon was the heavy favorite and at the time Chapa was their main man.
1. Salazar
2. Nyambui - just off the plane from what I remember
3. ? Muysioki (?)
4. Thom Hunt
5. Lacy
6. Hunter (DII)
10. Henderson (DIII)
13. Chapa
Teams:
1. UTEP
2. Oregon
3. Wisconsin
More Wisconsin and area connections in that list on the OP
1. Steve Lacy WI 23:50
2. Jim Spivey IU 24:10
3. Randy Jackson WI 24:17
4. Jeff Randolph WI 24:17
5. Jim Stinzi WI 24:17
6. Steve Plasencia MN 24:39
1---Steve's son is now #3 on Wisconsin's team, despite being a relatively unheralded HS runner (partly because of injuries)
5---Stinzi is now the Women's coach of T&F and XC
6---Steve P is a local rival
And, of course, Spivey eventually out-excelled Lacy as a miler.
Living in the Past: Your memory is improving. That winter was clearly pre-global warming. Several storms dropped over 2 feet of snow. Below freezing? It went for over 2 weeks without getting above ZERO. That weather would kill me today.
whatever happened to Randy Jackson. He was a great steepler in the day (NCAA champ) but sort of faded away after college. Went to cross-town high school, which we derisively called "East".
AK-49 wrote:
whatever happened to Randy Jackson. He was a great steepler in the day (NCAA champ) but sort of faded away after college. Went to cross-town high school, which we derisively called "East".
I was wondering that myself. He may have run for AW for a year or two? RJ's claim to fame was that he actually hurdled over the water rather than putting his foot on the barrier and pushing off.
Squid, I do remember that two-week stretch of below-zero weather. It was roughly from the last five days in December through the first 10 days in January.
Do you recall that the consecutive daily highs below freezing set a record that winter?
I lived in the French House. Most of the residents were French majors, and the female-male ratio was about two to one. That was not a bad place to live during a brutal winter.
There was a guy on the cross country team who would frequently eat lunch at the French House. He was a steeplechaser from Quebec (I think) and would come by to socialize with the other French speakers. His time was around 9:12. Great guy. Can't recall his name, though.