Southern California Striders

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The Southern California Striders are an American athletics club based in Los Angeles . At the Striders, the previous opponents of UCLA and USC met and will meet .

They were originally founded in 1955 by five top athletes, namely Mal Whitfield , George Rhoden , Meredith Gourdine , Lang Stanley and George Brown. At that time there were only a few athletics clubs, as hardly anyone wanted to continue doing a less lucrative sport such as athletics as a top-class sport after college. The Striders consisted almost entirely of top athletes (women played no role in American college sports at that time and thus also not in top-class sports after college), so they were called "America's finest Olympic Track and Field Stars". Between 1957 and 1965 they won the American team championship of the AAU 8 times. The membership lists read like the results lists of the American championships. Rafer Johnson , Ralph Boston , Bill Toomey , Mike Larrabee , Bob Seagren , John Rambo , John Smith , Fortune Gordien , Ronnie Ray Smith , Marshall Clark, Otis Burrell , Charles Dumas , Ed Caruthers , Leon Coleman , Donald Quarrie , Adolph Plummer , Chuck Smith , Ulis Williams , Rex Cawley , Wayne Collett , Ralph Mann , Ron Whitney , Geoff Vanderstock , Jim Cerveny , Paul Wilson , Ron Morris , Dick Railsback , John Pennel , Bob Day , Dave Volz , Parry O'Brien , Dallas Long , Peter Shmock , Rink Babka , Ben Plucknett , Ed Burke , Hal Connolly , Larry Young , Mike Manley and Max Truex . The last of the list was Ben Plucknett (1981).

The club president was Dr. Jerry Bornstein, who financed the association with other doctors. When industrial club sponsors became common and the amateur conditions were subsequently lifted, the club lost its importance. Today it is the most successful club in American senior sports.

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  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of August 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) accessed June 7, 2016
  2. ^ Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. In: competitive sport. 18: 1, pp. 43-47 (1988) ; 2, pp. 47–50, accessed June 7, 2016
  3. ↑ http://www.johnborksales.com/new_page_4.htm accessed on June 7, 2016
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of August 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on June 7, 2016
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of May 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). June 7, 2016
  6. ↑ http://www.usatf.org/statistics/champions/OlympicTrials/HistoryOfTheOlympicTrials.pdf on . June 7, 2016
  7. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sh/pete-shmock-1.html on . 7-06.2016
  8. ↑ http://scjewishsportshof.com/bornstein-jerry.html on . June 7, 2016
  9. ↑ http://www.scstriders.org/History.html