Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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I i - in i :nn i l VARSITY TRACK COACH EARL R. JACKSON Track resumed ils righlful place among The major sporls al Jrhe College of Jrhe Pacific This year. For rhe firsl lime in hall a decade hoslile spikes scarred lhe Baxrer Sladium oval. Called from graduale work ai' Slanford came Coach Earl R. SJronewall Jackson lo direc'r lhe lorlunes of lhe Bengal cindermen. Behind him lay an excellenl record of Jrwenly years coaching in The lvlidwesl. Afler five years of Jrrack famine, Jrhe sjrarved Bengals were ready ro go, buf were woefully unprepared. l-lardly a man on Jackson's squad had had inlercollegialre com- pelilive experience, and a large percenlage had eifher no experience or second-rare high school records. Back row: Jackson. B, Parsons, M. Parsons, Calrerall, Bovey, Gardner, DePuy, Parlier Middle row: Dunlap, Hoicfman, Peck, Doyle, Tomasini, Nelson, Avery Fronl row: Scoirr, Alkinson, Hansbrow. Tulloch. McDonnell, Sfarr A ll7Ol

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l I. r , 'Gm . A ' - Ph er Nelson Tcmasini Hoffman Aflc By far fhe hardesf worlcer associafed wifh fraclc acfivify was Coach Jackson himself. Nearly singlehanded he builf fhe pifs, supervised fhe rebuilding of The fraclc, and fhen scraped and finished if personally. Working consfanfly himself, he drove his men as hard as fhe weafher would allow. Under his occasionally causfic exferior, fhe Bengal fraclcmen found Coach Jaclc- son sympafhefic and anxious fo fif in af his new charge. l-lis big urge was pafenfly fo do anyfhing which would build a beffer fraclc feam fo represenf fhe College of fhe Pacific. To build four pifs and fheir runways, fo reconsfrucf an almosf ruined fraclc, and fo mold a fraclc feam in fhe face of fhe obsfacles he faced, were accomplishmenfs worfhy of fhe more famous S+onewall of a generafion ago. ln ferms of meefs won and losf, fhe firsf season musf be called a failure. ln ferms of consfrucfive foundafions on which fufure success can be builf, Coach Jaclcson's season deserves high praise. I-lasfening fo answer Coach Jaclcson's call for frack afhlefes fhis spring came more 'lhan sixfyprospecfive wearers of fhe orange and black, green buf ambifious fo learn. Dogged by misforfune af every sfep and prevenfed from pracficing by rain which furned fhe Baxfer Sfadium oval info a bog, fhe Bengals frained as besf fhey could on roads and bypafhs. ll7ll