Legendary track coach and part-time shoe designer Bill Bowerman built a University of Oregon dynasty, served in World War II, popularized jogging in the 1970s and co-founded Nike.
Bill Bowerman, one of the country's best track coaches, inspired the 1970s running craze and co-founded Nike.track and field coach Bill Bowerman molded world-class athletes — and molded the world’s first modern sneakers as well.
His inventions gave rise to Blue Ribbon Sports, the company he co-founded in 1964 with one of his former Oregon athletes, Phil Knight. "Bowerman was tenacious as hell," Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and Museum curator Jack Elder told Fox News Digital. "He had personal drive, curiosity, attention to detail and a willingness to develop both people and things.
Bill Bowerman is credited with inventing the modern athletic shoe, filing a patent for his innovative design in 1972 and receiving it in 1974. "If there are limits to what we can do," Bowerman said powerfully, as quoted by the University of Oregon,"I don’t know what they are."William Jay Bowerman was born on Feb. 19, 1911, in Portland, Oregon, to Jay and Elizabeth Bowerman.
"He was 6-2, over 200 pounds, with a powerful upper body," Moore wrote in his book about Bowerman’s Oregon men. He attended Oregon to play football, but was encouraged to join the track team by his predecessor as the university’s coach, Bill Hayward. Bowerman joined the U.S. Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He served with distinction through the end of the war, eventually rising to a major and battalion commander in the legendary 10th Mountain Division.
Bill Bowerman handmade prototype logo track spikes with waffle sole were on display during a press preview of The Olympic Collection at Sotheby's on July 21, 2021, in New York City.He began melting and molding rubber in the waffle iron and attaching the new forms to uppers, then using his athletes as guinea pigs for his evolving designs.
He sent two pairs to Bowerman on Jan. 20, 1964, to get thoughts from the coach and part-time shoe designer.
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