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Full Text: October 30, 1967 Mr. Steve Prefontaine Marshfield High School Coos Bay, Oregon Dear Steve: Bill Dellinger and I have watched the newspaper with interest this fall in your cross-country races. We congratulate you on your steady improvement. On the afternoon of October 27, I was laying out the cross-country course for the meet with Oregon State, while Bill Dellinger was out to watch the District Championship. Bill reports, as do Roscoe Divine and Dave Wilborn, a couple of Oregon sub-four-minute milers, that you look like a real champion. Congratulations, hit the books and if we can be of help to you here at the University of Oregon, we would be more than pleased to do so. Sincerely, W. J. Bowerman Professor of Physical Education Track Coach sk cc: Walt McClure

Item Title: Early Letter to Steve Prefontaine from Bill Bowerman

Description: A scanned image of a one-page letter, addressed to Steve Prefontaine, Marshfield High School, Coos Bay, Oregon, from W.J. Bowerman, Professor of Physical Education, Track Coach, dated October 30, 1967. In the letter, Bill Bowerman offers his congratulations to Steve Prefontaine for his progress in cross-country racing. Three other names are mentioned in the letter, as other individuals who have commented to Bowerman on Prefontaine's potential: Bill Dellinger; Rosco Divine and Dave Wilborn (two "sub-four-minute milers").

Descriptive Title Steve Prefontaine letter of intent

Collection Title: University Photographic Collection

Exhibition Theme: Track & Field

LC Subject: Track and field athletes; Letters; Letters of intent; Salutations; Cross-country running;

TGM Subject: Track athletics; Correspondence; Salutations;

Place: Oregon

Source of Descriptive Title: Cataloger supplied

Catalogers Notes: description needs revision; done without consultation and reference to document standards

Rights: (c) University of Oregon. Items in this collection are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ ). Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is required.
Those items created by individuals or entities outside of the University of Oregon may be subject to copyright restrictions by the creators or their assigns.