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STARK'S GREATEST TEAMS: During a stretch of six straight state titles under legendary head coach Ted Branin, the 1960 Bulldogs were a dominant bunch in winning McKinley's fifth straight championship.
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 14. THIS year's ongoing Olympic Flashback series continued with a refresher on swimming at the 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics Games. The in-depth feature appears in the ...
Editor's Note: In this exclusive Swimming World release, Jeff Farrell discusses the week leading up to the 1960 Olympic Trials, in which he endured an emergency appendectomy just days before ...
After integration, many cities in the South decided to just shut pools down rather than let Black people in, including Tallahassee. During the summers of 1964-1967, the city commission closed ...
That action led to the start of weekly “swim-ins” during the summer of 1960. The city said the movement sparked the civil rights era swim-ins and eventually led to the desegregation of Barton ...
If you came of age in Chattanooga any time since the middle of the 20th century, chances are good that you'll instantly recognize the waterfront location in the accompanying photograph.
The nude swimming item in last week’s Boomer U urban legends story generated several emails and phone calls from older men who confirmed that, indeed, boys throughout the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s ...