Ed Temple

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Edward Stanley Ed Temple (born September 20, 1927 in Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) , † September 22, 2016 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was by far the most successful American coach and pioneer of women's athletics . He was the coach of Tennessee State University in Nashville for 44 years and also the coach of American women's athletes at the 1960 Olympics and the 1964 Olympics .

Life

Ed Temple was an excellent athlete in three sports in high school, and did particularly well as a sprinter. He was recruited from black Tennessee State University during the desegregation of education. When he got to Nashville , he found that they didn't have an athletics team - so he was limited to football and baseball . Nevertheless, he ran a time of 9.7 s over 100 yards, which at the time was a very impressive 10.6 s over 100 meters. After completing his bachelor's degree (1950), he became a trainer assistant for sprinters. To make ends meet financially, he also worked at the post office. At the same time, he continued his studies and completed his master's degree in sociology in 1953 and from then on taught sociology in addition to being a trainer. In 1952 he recruited Mae Faggs , who had participated in the 1948 Olympic Games as a 16-year-old . With her he systematically taught women's athletics. He trained a lot, often three times a day, but each time relatively short and intense. Above all, he had exercises in the ballet studio performed in front of very large mirrors in order to train optimal body control. 40 female athletes he trained competed in the Olympic Games, and his Tigerbelles became American team champions 34 times. Even when the competition increased significantly after Title IX from 1972, he was still able to recruit top athletes with his reputation. These included u. a. Wilma Rudolph , Edith McGuire , Wyomia Tyus and Chandra Cheeseborough , who replaced him as coach of the women's team after his retirement. Temple was inducted into nine Halls of Fame a . a. the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and the National Track and Field Hall of Fame .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ed Temple . USA Track & Field. August 28, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ Temple, Edward S. . Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. Competitive sport. 18: 1, pp. 43-47 (1988) ; 2, pp. 47-50 . 17th June 2016
  4. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/ed-temple-who-molded-olympic-champions-and-built-tenn-state-track-dynasty-dies-at-89/2016/09/23 /7d848b42-819e-11e6-8327-f141a7beb626_story.html%7Cdate=September 23, 2016 | accessdate = September 24, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Temple, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Temple, Edward Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American athletics coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrisburg , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2016
Place of death Nashville , Tennessee