![]() In the fall of 1968 that was significant, because entering his senior year at Marshfield High in Coos Bay was one Steven Roland Prefontaine. Training is like having your teeth cleaned an hour a day.” Dellinger would be the first of Bill’s assistants to work directly with runners of distance. He’d tell his boys that when you get really fit, running’s easy, running’s like brushing your teeth,” Bowerman said. As a coach, “Dellinger was good in the running events. Dellinger was an Oregon grad, a former Bowerman runner, and, in 1964, a medalist in the Olympic 5,000 meters. Perhaps the time was right to remedy that condition.īowerman decided to hire Bill Dellinger away from Lane Community College. Bowerman had had dozens of graduate assistants in the 19 years he had been coaching at Oregon, but never a fully paid position. One of his top priorities was to get more help for his University of Oregon track program. ![]() After the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Bill Bowerman hung his serape and sombrero on a nail and thought about how to make the best use of the next four years.
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