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1928 St. Bonaventure Track and Field Team
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John Bell
1895-1947
St.
Bonaventure Athletic Hall of Fame
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Personal
Accomplishments:
-Student Track Coach 1925-1928
-Member, U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team 1924
-Member, U.S. Track and Field Team, Dublin, Ireland Third
Place 3,000 Meter Steeplechase 1924
-Freshman ICAAA Cross Country Champion 1924
-First Place Team, Jr. Natl. Cross Country
Championships 1926
-Second Place Team, Sr. Natl. Cross Country Championships 1926
-Third Place Individual, Jr. Natl. Cross Country Championships
1926
-Fifth place Individual, Sr. Natl. Cross Country Championships
1926
-New York State Two Mile Champion 1926-1927
-Steeplechase, Olympic Trials
1928
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Bell served in
France and Russia during WWI. |
| Bell went on to
seminary at St. Francis Seminary and was ordained May
21, 1932. |
| Fr. Bell died by
drowning while trying to assist another capsized boat. |
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Charles (Charlie) Major
1904-1984 St. Bonaventure
Athletic Hall of Fame
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-Was
known as one of the outstanding Bahamian athletes of the
1920's and 1930's.
-At age 13 his mother took him from the Bahamas to look for a
better life in the Big Apple-New York City. |
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National
titles: 2 National AAU titles
-Millrose Games title
-New England Championship
-Metropolitan Championships |
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His high
point in High jump came in 1929 when he cleared 6-7 1/2' at an
outdoor meet in New York. |
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April 27, 1979, New York State proclaimed this day,
"Charles W. Major Day". |
| St.
Bonaventure Track coach, 1933-1934 |
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Would
have been a member of the 1928 Olympic Team that went to Amsterdam had
it not been for an injury. |
| After
his amateur track and field days, boxing took top priority.
-His boxing career covered periods of him being manager,
trainer, promoter and adviser to the Amateur Boxing
Association. |
| Official
ground breaking of the Charlie
Major Memorial Track at St. Bonaventure took place on May
31, 1985 |
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Gus
Moore
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2nd in 1926 National AAU Junior Championship, where Bona's won the team prize. 1928 and 1929 United States Cross Country Champion (after leaving Bona's).
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Moore and Bell
traded 1st and 2nd place among the Bonnies' runners. |
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3rd (1st for Bona)
in 1926 Senior National Championship, his freshman year |
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Attended Boy's
High School, Brooklyn
-Won NY scholastic one and
two mile title
-Won world and national colored one and two mile titles
-Member of national scholastic medley relay championship team. |
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Laurel, 1926,
128-136 |
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Roi Ottley
1906-1960
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Ottley was among the very first group of
African Americans to attend St. Bonaventure when he enrolled
in the fall of 1926. Throughout his childhood, he
played basketball, baseball, and ran track. Upon setting a number
of high school sprinting records in New York City, he was offered a
track scholarship by Saint Bonaventure University. |
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-Born in New York City on August 2, 1906
-Attended Public School #5 in NYC
-1926: Graduated from Textile High School
-1926-1927: Attended St. Bonaventure
-1928: Transferred to University of Michigan to pursue a career in journalism.
See Ottley web site. |
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