Picture Of The Day
With the NCAA Track and Field West Regionals this weekend, here's a photo of an often overlooked figure at USC: Track coach Dean Cromwell (with Greta Garbo of course). Cromwell won 12 NCAA titles, including nine straight from 1935-43. He also coached the football team for five years for those of you who think only of football.
My favorite Cromwell story is that in the early 1940's, he won an NCAA title by sending just four athletes to the finals and did not attend the meet himself. Legend has it the four athletes ran out of money about halfway across the country and only got to the finals when the University of Michigan paid the rest of the way.
Wow Scott you must have the hots for Greta lol...this is the 3rd pic of the day with her in it...
Seriously. It's a shame how Track and Field has fallen off. During Cromwell's days USC oculd field teams that would score in the top 5 of many Olympic Games at that time. USC would avg 30,000 for meets at the Coliseum vs UCLA in the 50-60s.
I went to the USC vs UCLA meet 3 weeks ago and there were no more than 2,500 folks there.
I tell ya. It's a shame...
Leave me alone! Those photographs were embarrassing, and I was coerced by the studio!
Uh I was channelling Greta on that last one...
Greta was obviously a Trojan!