Elvin C. Drake

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Elvin Clifford "Ducky" Drake (born November 2, 1903 in Friend , Nebraska ; † December 23, 1988 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American track and field athlete, athletic trainer , and physical therapist who was associated with the UCLA Bruins for sixty years and was called "father of UCLA competitive sport ”applies.

Life

After high school in Nebraska, Drake went to UCLA as a track and field athlete, where he received his bachelor's degree in education in 1926 . After a brief stint as a math teacher at a local junior high school , he became a track and field assistant coach at UCLA in 1929, which he remained until 1947. From 1942 on, he was also a physiotherapist who mainly had to take care of football players. In 1947 he was promoted to head coach for athletics, but also remained a physiotherapist. Here he won u. a. the track and field NCAA team championship 1956. His unique success included the 1960 Summer Olympics , in which both the Olympic decathlon champion Rafer Johnson and the silver medalist Yang Chuan-Kwang were part of his UCLA team. Drake laid the foundation for his second career with Yang, who competed in the weeks leading up to the competition and the competition itself with a fatigue fracture in his metatarsus. In total, he has coached 8 Olympic medalists, 9 NCAA champions, and 12 American champions. From 1964 on, he became the chief physiotherapist of UCLA competitive sports while Jim Bush took over the track and field. Drake now mainly oversaw football and contributed to the success of John Wooden's teams in basketball . He did not retire as chief physiotherapist until 1972, but continued to look after the sports teams until 1986. He knew how to restore the football injuries so quickly through the immediate use of ice and (as soon as open wounds were closed) through DMSO that the players could usually be used again the following weekend.

Honors

  • 1956: Athletics coach of the year
  • 1964: Induction into the NATA Hall of Fame (Sports Therapists)
  • 1973: UCLA names the new stadium after him, see Drake Stadium (UCLA)
  • 1984: First inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame
  • 1985: Induction into the Mt SAC Hall of Fame
  • 2007: Induction into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-25/sports/sp-1384_1_ducky-drake
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger , Helmut Oberdieck : Small guide to athletics injuries . Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-87039-955-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Drake, Elvin C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drake, Elvin Clifford (full name); Drake, Ducky (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American athletics trainer and physical therapist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Friend
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1988
Place of death Santa Monica , California