Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder » (First Edition)

KENNY MOORE, who trained with Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon, is a two-time Olympic marathoner and former senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He cowrote and coproduced teh movie Without Limits, based on the life and tragic early death of Hall of Fame runner Steve Prefontaine. Moore lives in Eugene, Oregon.

No man has affected more runners in more ways than Bill Bowerman. During his 24-year tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon, he won four national team titles and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. He also ignited the jogging boom, invented the waffle-sole running shoe that helped establish Nike, and coached the US track and field team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games

With the full cooperation of the Bowerman family and Nike, plus years of taped interviews with friends, relatives, students, and competitors, two-time Olympic marathoner Kenny Moore - himself one of Bowerman's champion athletes - brilliantly re-creates the legendary track coach's life.

Acknowledgments     ix
Men of Oregon     1
That Wild Yearning     9
Lizzie and the Governor     17
Wild Bill Meets a Mule Skinner     25
Barbara     32
The University of Oregon     41
Bill Hayward     49
Medford     61
The Tenth Mountain Division     68
First Principles     82
A Friend, a Son, a Community     98
A Dynasty Begins     105
Rome     114
Innovation     123
The 1962 Season     131
The AAU Dictatorship     140
Jogging     146
The Birth of BRS     156
Tokyo     161
A curious Mind     181
Rites of Passage     187
Lessons Inserted     203
Mexico City     214
Enter, Prefontaine     234
BRS Become Nike     257
Munich     273
Transit and Sorrow     305
Legacy     331
Rajneeshpuram     369
Builderman     380
Immortal Messages     399
Index     418