Dink Templeton

Dink Templeton

Player information
Full name	Robert Lyman Templeton
birthday	May 27, 1897
place of birth	Helena , Montana , United States
date of death	7th August 1962
Place of death	Palo Alto , California , United States
size	1.78 m
society
society	Career ended
position	Goalkeeper
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
1920	Olympic Club	()
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
1920	United States	1 (5)

Dink Templeton (actually Robert Lyman Templeton ; born May 27, 1897 in Helena , Montana , † August 7, 1962 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American rugby union player, athlete and athletics coach . He became Olympic champion with the US rugby team in 1920 .

Active sport

Templeton came to Stanford in 1914, but his studies were soon interrupted by World War I, during which he became a pilot in France. On his return he was Star Kicker of rugby and American football crews of and star of track and field athletes of the university.

At the US athletics eliminations for the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 Templeton was disqualified in his strongest discipline, the high jump , because of the technical uncleanliness of his western roll . However, he was able to qualify as third in the trials for the long jump . In addition, he was appointed to the rugby selection because of his kicker qualities. In the long jump he just missed a medal as fourth, but he was able to initiate the victory of the Eagles by jumping over 55 yards to 3-0 in the final of the Olympic rugby tournament .

Trainer

Immediately after completing his MA in 1921, he became an informal trainer for the athletics coaches at Stanford University and officially appointed by the university the following year. Because he was only 25 years old when he was appointed and thus one of the youngest head coach of a sports program at a large US university, he was also known as The Boy Coach . In addition to his work as a trainer, he initially successfully completed his law studies at Stanford Law School . Although he graduated, he waived his admission test as a lawyer. Under his responsibility, the university was three times NCAA team champions of the NCAA (1925, 1928, 1934) and four times team champions of the IC4A . His protégés won 19 US titles in individual competitions, won nine medals at the Olympic Games and set 16 world records . The revolutionary thing about his training was that, contrary to the American tradition of the relatively short season as well as training and competitions in a second or third sport, he required year-round training and systematically dealt with the sports, e.g. B. made a long sprint out of the 400 m and was ahead of its time.

In addition to and after the end of his work at Stanford until his death, Templeton was the coach of the San Francisco Olympic Club as well as six times US selection coach at the Olympics and sports journalist and commentator.

Honors

Templeton was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame for the U.S. Athletics Federation in 1976 as a coach . He was also inducted into the Sydney and Theodore Rosenberg Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame at Stanford University, as well as the Hall of Fame of the US Athletics Federation.

Web links

Commons : Dink Templeton  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• USA Track & Field Hall of Fame entry
• Dink Templeton in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ ^{A b c} David L. Porter: Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1992-1995. Greenwood Pub Group Inc., 1995, ISBN 0313284318 , p. 680.
2. ^ Gary Migdol: Stanford: Home of Champions. Sports Publishing LLC 1997, ISBN 1571671161 , p. 89.
3. ↑ ^{a b} R.L. "Dink" Templeton, USTFCCCA Special Inductee. In: USTFCCCA Hall of Fame . US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, accessed August 31, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997). In: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change . Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, pp. 41-56.
5. ^ Templeton, Dink & Spencer, Bud (1966): High above the Olympians. Tafnews Press, Los Altos, CA