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San Jose State - Bruce Wang - 08-03-2013
One of the cool things on the Reddit College Football Subreddit, is the writeups they've been doing on all the FBS schools and teams. Today's was San Jose State:
http://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1jlwht/132_teams_in_132_days_san_jose_state_spartans/
One of the things I learned was that the two athletes at the Mexico City Olympics that made the civil rights salute were San Jose State students, and that there's a giant statue on the campus honoring them. Will have to check that out the next time I'm near there.
Re: San Jose State - FarmBoy - 08-04-2013
My father in law was a student at SJSU and trained with the T&F team back in the late 60's, early 70's. He tells me SJSU was something of a national force in those days because of their coach, "Bud" Winter.
From the wikipedia article:
Quote:The track stadium at San Jose State University was named "Bud" Winter Field. While he was coaching, such was his success, it was known as "Speed City." Since his departure, to the embarrassment of Winter's legacy, San Jose State closed down its track program in the wake of Title IX. The stadium has fallen into disrepair. The famed Tartan track, which Winter caused to be one of the first such tracks in the world,[4] is used as a parking lot for the neighboring Spartan Stadium.[5][6] The site is now proposed to become a football/soccer stadium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_(Bud)_Winter