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The History of the Pan American Games
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1964 The iH story of the Pan American Games. Curtis Ray Emery Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Emery, Curtis Ray, "The iH story of the Pan American Games." (1964). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 977. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/977 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This dissertation has been 65—3376 microfilmed exactly as received EMERY, Curtis Ray, 1917- THE HISTORY OF THE PAN AMERICAN GAMES. Louisiana State University, Ed.D., 1964 Education, physical University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan THE HISTORY OF THE PAN AMERICAN GAMES A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education m The Department of Health, Physical, and Recreation Education by Curtis Ray Emery B. S. , Kansas State Teachers College, 1947 M. S ., Louisiana State University, 1948 M. Ed. , University of Arkansas, 1962 August, 1964 PLEASE NOTE: Illustrations are not original copy. These pages tend to "curl". Filmed in the best possible way. UNIVERSITY MICROFILMS, INC. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This study could not have been completed without the close co operation and assistance of many individuals who gave freely of their time. -
Official Media Guide March 23 – April 1, 2012 Tucson Trap & Skeet Club 7800 W
12 US 20 A I S P SF U WORLD C OFFICIAl Media Guide March 23 – april 1, 2012 Tucson Trap & Skeet club 7800 W. Old ajo highway visitTucson.org 2012worldcup.tucsontrapandskeet.com (520) 883-6426 | toll free (888) 530-5335 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. USA Shooting is pleased to introduce the official 2012 Media Guide for the Tucson World Cup. Since participation in the first Olympic Games in 1896, American shooters have won over 100 medals. Though the events have changed over the years, the spirit of the Games remains. The title of the media guide is “Creating Legends on the Road to London” because American shooters have been so successful in the past and the future is equally lustrous. While there are many opportunities to shoot competitively in the United States, USA Shooting offers world-class athletes the opportunity to achieve Olympic and Paralympic dreams. “To me, the concept of wearing the USA on my back in the Paralympic Games in 2012 means that I have found my way through the fear factor. I have found a new sense of self and I have not only leveled the playing field from Special Operations soldier to Paralympic athlete . I have eclipsed all previous expectations of who I wanted to be and created a new pinnacle that exceeded all previous achievements and I did it without the use of my legs,” said 2012 U.S. Paralympic Team nominee Eric Hollen. Hollen is not only a top-notch individual, but also a very talented and hard-working shooter. Holllen was awarded USA Shooting’s 2010 and 2011 Paralympic Athlete of the Year distinction, and most notably, he was recently nominated to the 2012 U.S. -
Lones Wigger: Legend Lost 1937-2017 “We Can Say with Great Assurance That He Didn’T Make a Dime Over His 20 Years of Practicing Tens of Thousands of Hours of Shooting
Lones Wigger: Legend Lost 1937-2017 “We can say with great assurance that he didn’t make a dime over his 20 years of practicing tens of thousands of hours of shooting. He didn’t do it for the money. He did it – as the ancient Greeks did – for the glory of sport.” - Dr. John Lucas, Ph.D., an Olympic historian on Lones Wigger’s induction to the Olympic Hall of Fame in 2008. Ret. Army Lt. Col. Lones W. Wigger, a four-time Olympian and the most decorated shooter in the world, passed away on the evening of December 14, 2017 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old. During his induction to the Olympic Hall of Fame in 2008, Wigger’s daughter and 1983 Pan American Games teammate, Deena, said her father “has paid more back to the sport of shooting than he ever got out of it.” Wigger’s illustrious international shooting career spanned 25 years and saw him winning 111 medals and setting 29 world records, along with winning two Olympic gold medals and one silver. Though with all his accomplishments, the generations of young shooters who continue to reap the benefits of his hard work and love for the sport all say the same thing – ‘Wig’ is the best. Wigger’s mark on the sport reaches far beyond his international shooting career. After a distinguished 26-year career in the U.S. Army, Wigger retired in 1987 and went to work for the NRA as the Director of Training for the U.S. -
THE ART of SHOOTING the Life and Times of Arthur C. Jackson Being
THE ART OF SHOOTING The Life and Times of Arthur C. Jackson Being the True and Accurate Accounting In his own words Of the Great Rifleman's Life and Adventures In The World Wide Arena As a Youthful Marksman National Champion World Champion Olympic Medallist And Elder Statesman In The Great Sport of Rifle Shooting And The Rich and Exciting Times In Which He has Lived As told to Hap Rocketto His Faithful Amanuensis THE ELUSIVE ART JACKSON AND ME As a young lad in the early 1950s I became interested in rifle shooting when my brother Steve was a member of the New London High School Rifle Team. Our father had done some shooting in his youth and passed the interest on to us. From time to time Steve would bring home things that only served to stoke the fires of my curiosity. An empty dark green pasteboard box that once held Director Of Civilian Marksmanship issued Remington Kleenbore, a few expended cartridge cases, or a tattered target were like trash to some, but to me they were the wonders of Aladdin's cave. The real treasure was the tattered copies of The American Rifleman Magazine that Coach George Gregory would allow members to check out for a few days. After reading it, my brother would allow me a look. I recall having to do his turn at raking leaves, taking out the trash, and other household chores to earn the right to peek between the pages. I was even roundly thrashed after he discovered a glob of peanut butter and jelly that had escaped from my afternoon snack to sully the pages of the magazine, or at least that was the excuse he used for that particular beating. -
OLYMPIC GAMES ANTWERP August 14 - September 12, 1920
Y.E.A.H. - Young Europeans Active and Healthy OLYMPIC GAMES ANTWERP August 14 - September 12, 1920 After 8 years... sociation. No fixed host city was pro- posed at the time. The 1916 Summer In 1915, Lyon made a bid Olympics ( Olympische Sommerspie- for the 1920 games, but after some le 1916 ), officially known as discussion, they agreed to support the Games of the VI Olympiad , Antwerp and postpone their bid until were scheduled to be held 1924 if Antwerp was liberated in time in Berlin, Germany, but were eventu- to organize the games. The support ally canceled due to the outbreak by France, then the leading country of World War I. Berlin was selected as of the IOC, also meant that Amster- the host city during the 14th IOC dam, and Budapest, in an enemy Session in Stockholm on 4 July 1912, state, made no chance for the 1920 defeating bids from Alexan- games against Antwerp. New candi- dria, Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest dacies from American cities did not and Cleveland. Germany did not re- have that disadvantage and bids were turn to Olympic competition received from Cleveland, Philadel- until 1928 and instead hosted a series phia, and Atlanta, and Cuba also of games called Deutsche Kampf- planned a bid for Havana. But shortly spiele, starting with the Winter edition after the armistice in November 1918, of 1922 (which predated the first the IOC decided to give Antwerp the Winter Olympics). first choice, if they still wanted to host the 1920 Games. In March 1919, the The 1920 Summer Belgian Olympic Committee decided Olympics ( Les Jeux olympiques d'été to go ahead with the organization, de 1920 ), officially known as and on 5 April 1919, in a meeting in the Games of the VII Olympiad , Lausanne, Antwerp was officially de- were held in 1920 in Antwerp, Bel- clared the host city for the games of gium (The sailing events were held the VIIth Olympiad. -
Report on VIII Olympiad Paris, France, 1924
/ TABLE OF CONTENTS Page American Olympic Executive Committee............................................................. 1 Chairmen of Local Committees................................................................................ .... 4 Report of President Robert M. Thompson........................................................... .... 5 Report of Secretary Frederick W. Rubien............................................................. ... 8 American Olympic Teams ......................................................................................... ... 15 Report of Manager Track and Field Team Charles A. Dean........................ ... 23 Report of Assistant Manager Track and Field Team George V. Brown...... 24 Report of Assistant Manager Track and Field Team Sam Goodman..... ... 24 Report of Head Track Coach Lawson Robertson............................................... .... 27 Report of Head Field Coach Walter M. Christie............................................ .... 28 Report of Assistant Track and Field Coach Harry L. Hillman................ ... 31 Report of Assistant Track and Field Coach Thomas F. Keane................. 32 Report of Assistant Track and Field Coach John J. Magee.............................. 32 Report of Assistant Track and Field Coach Edward L. Farrell................................ ... 33 Report of Assistant Track and Field Coach Lt. E .L . Vidal....................... ... 35 Report of Assistant Track and Field Coach Wm. L. Hayward................. .... 36 Report of Marathon Trainer Michael J. Ryan.................................................. -
A History of the United States National Outdoor Smallbore Rifle Championships 1919-2013
A History of the United States National Outdoor Smallbore Rifle Championships 1919-2013 By Hap Rocketto August 25, 2013 i Acknowledgement This history is an attempt to capture the events and personalities that make the National Rifle Association’s National Outdoor Smallbore Rifle Championship such a powerful and interesting story. Covering the years 1919 through 2002 was done under the auspices of the NRA’s publications division, as source material for The National Matches: 1903-2003 The First 100 Years. The reports of the years thereafter were written for, and published by, Precision Shooting Magazine. This is not a formal history in the sense that bibliography is not appended nor are sources cited. However, much of this story was collected from the rich store of information archived in the written reports found in the shooting journals Arms and the Man, The American Rifleman, Tournament News, Shooting Sports USA, and Precision Shooting Magazine as well as the programs and bulletins of The National Matches and NRA Shooting Trophies. To these writers, the many anonymous NRA staff writers who reported on the events at Camp Perry without a byline, Kendrick Scofield, Edward C. Crossman, Walter Stokes, C.S. Landis, Stephen Trask, David North, Jack Rohan, L.J. Hathaway, F.C. Ness, C.B. Lister, Robert D. Hatcher, John Schofield, Ron Stann, Paul Cardinal, Frank J. “Al Blanco” Kahrs, Paul Pierpoint, Alan C. Webber, Ronald W. Musselwhite, William F. Parkerson, III, Robert W. Hunnicutt, J. Scott Rupp, Michael R. Irwin, Tom Fulgham, Ron Keysor, John Zent, Karen Davey, Joseph B. Roberts, Jr., John Grubar, Hap Rocketto, Michael E. -