1969.
impressive.
The man is intelligent.
1969.
impressive.
The man is intelligent.
Very well known.
I stand corrected.
carry on.
To any student of the sport, that is hardly a rare factoid. Good job getting to know your history. Lots of good stuff from that era.
It's EXTREMELY widely known
Any info that is readily available in a runner's Wiki page cannot be considered "not widely known".
This was a very well known fact when he ran (and won) the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. One of his former Yale professors - Erich Segal (author of Love Story) did the color commentary for the marathon. I remember Segal yelling when the impostor ran into the stadium ahead of Frank
"You won Frank, you won."
= E Segal
I remember it well.
I must thank the impostor for giving our family a good laugh while we watched on television.
It was probably not amusing to Mr. Shorter though.
The OP is probably right in this sense: I'd bet that 99% of the American population doesn't know who Frank Shorter is/was or what he did.
But of those people who *do* know about Frank Shorter, a goodly percentage know that he's a Yale grad. It's (probably) a higher percentage than those who know that Morgan Uceny is a Cornell grad, or that Ben True is a Dartmouth man.
Frank Shorter = Yale = memorable
Frank Shorter = Florida Track Club = memorable
Frank Shorter = Frank Shorter Sportswear = forgotten footnote
Geico wrote:
impressive.
The man is intelligent.
If he was so intelligent, why didn't he train more intelligent and won gold in the 1976 Olympics, too?
Now widely known that when in college during the famed Harvard Yale meet, the meet was coming down to the end. Shorter was in the 2 mile or 3 miles. And he had to finish 2nd or 3rd for Yale to have a shot.
He simply just quit mid-race and walked off the track. I know to this day it's hard for some yalies on that team to reconcile that with the fact that he ended up being an American Olympic hero.
Any, old Yale-Harvard guys know the details of this? I remember being told about it once but would love to get the specifics. I think it's a good story - not to take down shorter but to make a point. So many people think "Champions are so mentally strong." I think in reality they are just mostly supremely fit.
When they aren't in shape, they often are normal runners.
Lesser known is what medical school did he attend?
South Harmon Institute of Technology. /thread
State plan wrote:
Lesser known is what medical school did he attend?
State plan wrote:
Lesser known is what medical school did he attend?
Now that's a better question. He didn't stay long. And by early 70s had relocated to Boulder, where he went to law school. Bounced back and forth to Gainsville, FL. ?Si?
sounds like he did a Duran a decade before Duran decided it wasn't worth the aggravation.
Harvard had two great runners named Doug Hardin and Royce Shaw in Shorter's era. They would defeat him often, though Shorter rallied at the end of his senior year and won the NCAA six-mile.
I always knew he went to Yale but didn't know he actually graduated. Thanks for that information.
Roy Firestone wrote:
I always knew he went to Yale but didn't know he actually graduated. Thanks for that information.
He also graduated from law school.
Does a BA at Yale require more intelligence than a BA anywhere else?