Chillicothe Gold Medalist in the 1908 London Games

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Edward Cook
Chillicothe H.S. Alum 1908 Olympic Games Pole Vault - Gold Medal (12' 2")

Edward Tiffin Cook, Jr. (November 27, 1888 – October 18, 1972) was an American athlete who competed in the men's pole vault. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and tied for gold with fellow American vaulter Alfred Gilbert.

Cook graduated from Cornell University in 1910 and was elected to the Sphinx Head Society during his senior year in 1910.

Information on the Sphinx Head Society at Cornell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_Head

Here is the information on his Gold Medal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Cook_(athlete)

Edward Cook (* 27 November 1889 as Edward Tiffin Cook jr. in Chillicothe, Ohio; † 18 October 1972) was an US-American athlete. With a body size of 1,78 m its match weight amounted to 66 kg.

1908 supplied themselves the two Americans walter Dray and Alfred Gilbert a match around the improvement (unofficial) of the world record in the Stabhochsprung, Pole Vault in whose process the world record was increased by Dray from the year 1907 from 3.79 meters to 3.90 meters. Gilbert jumped with 3.855 meters and 3.86 meters of two world records.

With the Olympic Games 1908 was not Dray at the start. Alfred Gilbert jumped 3.71 meters, but Edward Cook came on the same height. Stinging was not accomplished and was not explained in such a way both athletes as the olympia winner, and three further as Olympia third. Cook began also in the Weitsprung Weitsprung.... (der)
n. long jump, broad jump, one of the events in a track and field competition in which one runs and jumps as far as possible, and became with 6.97 meters fourth.

Edward Cook was active after its conclusion to the Cornell University as farmers and later than director at the Roofridge National Bank of Chillicothe, Ohio.



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BuckeyeCAV, I would greatly appreciate it if you were to get all of this information and send it to Bob Bergstrom at McClain High School. If there are any records from Chillicothe High School and any other pertinent information about his college career get that to Mr. Bergstrom, as well. This may very well be a candidate to be considered for the Hall of Fame. Thank you.

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He is already in the Ohio Hall of Fame for Track Coaches. Type in Chillicothe High School on Wipekidea and look at all the stats. Here is what I put together last night:

Edward Cook
Chillicothe H.S. Alum 1908 Olympic Games Pole Vault - Gold Medal (12' 2")

Edward Tiffin Cook, Jr. (November 27, 1888 – October 18, 1972) was an American athlete who competed in the men's pole vault. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and tied for gold with fellow American vaulter Alfred Gilbert.

Here is his picture and write up being inducted into the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches.

http://www.oatccc.com/halloffame/1979.html

Edward Cook, ran, jumped and vaulted for Chillicothe High School and Cornell University. Tied for first in the 1908 Olympic pole vault. Set two national high school long jump records, and tied the the 100 yard dash national record four times. Finished 4th in the 1908 Olympic long jump. Won two IC4A and two national AAU outdoor pole vault titles. He graduated from high school before the first state high school track meet was held. Coached track at Oakwood High School from 1926 through 1942. Won three state high school track meets and five district track meets. Coached eight individual state track meet winners. Set 18 state high school records. Official.

Oakwood High Sports Hall of Fame announced

The Oakwood High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee is pleased to announce the Charter Class of the Oakwood Hall of Fame. The Committee has been working since June of 2007 to establish the Hall of Fame.

The following individuals will be inducted at a banquet at the Dayton Country Club on Thursday, August 21, 2008:

Edward Cook, coached track, cross country, football from 1926-1943; Won three state track titles 1929-1931 and five district championships; Oakwood Athletic Director.

Here is the information on his Gold Medal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Cook_(athlete)

Cook graduated from Cornell University in 1910 and was elected to the Sphinx Head Society during his senior year in 1910.

Greek Olympic Medal Winners

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EDWARD COOK—GM 1908, track

Information on the Sphinx Head Society at Cornell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_Head

Edward Cook (* 27 November 1889 as Edward Tiffin Cook jr. in Chillicothe, Ohio; † 18 October 1972) was an US-American athlete. With a body size of 1,78 m its match weight amounted to 66 kg.

1908 supplied themselves the two Americans Walter Dray and Alfred Gilbert a match around the improvement (unofficial) of the world record in the Stabhochsprung, Pole Vault in whose process the world record was increased by Dray from the year 1907 from 3.79 meters to 3.90 meters. Gilbert jumped with 3.855 meters and 3.86 meters of two world records.

With the Olympic Games 1908 was not Dray at the start. Alfred Gilbert jumped 3.71 meters, but Edward Cook came on the same height. Stinging was not accomplished and was not explained in such a way both athletes as the olympia winner, and three further as Olympia third. Cook began also in the Weitsprung Weitsprung.... (der)
n. long jump, broad jump, one of the events in a track and field competition in which one runs and jumps as far as possible, and became with 6.97 meters fourth.

IC4A CHAMPIONSHIPS (1876-1942)
The championship meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America was first held in 1876. The event was effectively the national collegiate championships of the United States until the introduction of the NCAA meeting in 1921. Since that point in time the event has declined in importance and is now mainly contested by colleges and universities in the north east of the country (and still remains a men's only organisation). This compilation lists winners, courtesy of Jesse Squire, from 1876-1942.

Venues: 1876 Saratoga, 1877-1902 New York, 1903 Philadelphia, 1904 Cambridge, 1905 Philadelphia, 1906 Cambridge, 1907 Philadelphia, 1908 Cambridge, 1909 Philadelphia, 1910 Cambridge, 1911 Philadelphia, 1912 Cambridge, 1914 Philadelphia, 1915 Cambridge, 1916 Philadelphia, 1917 Cambridge, 1918 Philadelphia, 1919 Cambridge, 1920 Philadelphia, 1921-22 Cambridge, 1923 Philadelphia, 1924 Cambridge, 1925 Philadelphia, 1926 Cambridge, 1927 Philadelphia, 1928 Cambridge, 1929 Philadelphia, 1930 Cambridge, 1931 Philadelphia, 1932 Berkeley, 1933 Cambridge, 1934 Philadelphia, 1935 Cambridge, 1936 Philadelphia, 1937-42 New York

Long Jump: Edward Cook 6.86

*CORNELL OLYMPIANS

Cornell Name Class Olympic Event/Medal Olympic Year

Edward Cook 1910 Track (gold - pole vault) 1908

*1908 London Summer Games
2035 Athletes, 22 Countries, 110 Events

Hall of Fame
Edward Cook Class of 1910

Induction Class of 1989
Men's Track

IC4A long jump champion, 1908 and 1909; tied for pole vault championship and placed 4th in long jump at 1908 Olympic Games. Was AAU pole vault champ in 1907 and '10. Held world's interscholastic record in long jump and in 100 yards (with others) before entering Cornell. Won 1908 long jump at Penn Relays.

http://therelays.blogspot.com/2007/01/i ... -gold.html

Originally scheduled to take place in Rome, the Italian government gave up the right to host the 1908 Games when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 1906. The IOC proceeded to let London hold the Games a very good decision. With no Worlds Fair to distract from the competitions, the London Games were starkly different from the poorly organized 1900 Paris and 1904 St. Louis Games.


Marching with the United States was John Baxter Taylor (Penn '08). Little did he know at the time, Taylor would become the first AfricanAmerican to win a gold medal. His Olympic experience started with what has been one of the most controversial events in Olympic history the 1908 400meter race.


The 400meter final included four men: Wyndham Halswelle of Great Britain, and Americans William Robbins, John C. Carpenter (Cornell '07), and Taylor. In the homestretch, the race came down to Halswelle and Carpenter. Officials contended that Carpenter obstructed HalswelleÆs pursuit to take the lead, and ripped the finish line tape before the race finished. The race was to be rerun without Carpenter two days later. In a show of solidarity, John Baxter Taylor and William Robbins refused to participate leaving Halswelle to walk around the track to earn the gold medal.

Taylor would later win his gold medal in the sprint medley relay, the first relay race in Olympic history. The team, which also included Taylor's Penn teammate and twotime Olympian Nathaniel J. Cartmell, won the race by three seconds, making Taylor the first AfricanAmerican to win a gold medal.


Taylor tragically passed away in December 1908, at the age of 26, from typhoid.


The London Games also featured the Olympic debut of Mike 'Big Greek' Dorizas (Penn '15) somewhat of a mythical figure in University City as a threesport (football, wrestling, track and field) athlete who was once dubbed the strongest athlete in the world. Dorizas competed in the javelin throw for his native Greece. At Penn, he was known for his 29inch thighs, the size of an average freshmanÆs waist, and for pinning wrestling opponents in remarkable time.


Penn athletes were not the only successful Leaguers in London. Dartmouth had its firstever Olympians at the 1908 Games: Arthur B. Shaw '08 and D.R. Sherman. Shaw won the bronze medal in the 110meter hurdles. Six Cornell track and field athletes were at the Games Edward Cook Class of 1910 won the 1908 London Olympic Games Pole Vault Gold Medal and Harry Porter '05 won the high jump gold medal.

George Dole (Yale '06) won the Ancient Eight's first wrestling medal in the featherweight (63 kg) division. Dole was merely a few inches over 5feet tall.

Name School Sport
John C. Carpenter Cornell University Men's Athletics
Edward Cook Cornell University Men's Athletics
Charles M. French Cornell University Men's Athletics
John P. Halstead Cornell University Men's Athletics
Harry Porter Cornell University Men's Athletics
Lee Talbot Cornell University Men's Athletics
Herbert L. Trube Cornell University Men's Athletics
Arthur B. Shaw Dartmouth College Men's Athletics
Nathaniel A. Sherman Dartmouth College Men's Athletics
William Rand Harvard University Men's Athletics
Nathaniel J. Cartmell University of Pennsylvania Men's Athletics
Michael Dorizas University of Pennsylvania Men's Athletics
Lloyd P. Jones University of Pennsylvania Men's Athletics
Thomas R. Moffit University of Pennsylvania Men's Athletics
John Baxter Taylor University of Pennsylvania Men's Athletics
J.L. Eisele Princeton University Men's Athletics
George Dole Yale University Men's Wrestling
A.C. Gilbert Yale University Men's Athletics
L.V. Howe Yale University Men's Athletics

*Edward Cook was active after its conclusion to Cornell University as a farmer, later director at the Roofridge National Bank of Chillicothe, Ohio and later coach at Oakwood H.S.


Ohio High School National Record Holders, Outdoor Track

Long Jump Edward Cook Chillicothe 22' 7.50" 1905

Long Jump Edward Cook Chillicothe 23' 2.00" 1905

Long Jump Edward Cook Chillicothe 23' 5.00" 1906

100 yd. Dash Edward Cook Chillicothe 10.0 (tie )(3 times) 1906


OHIO HIGH SCHOOL BOYS PROGRESSIVE RECORD LIST-field events, yards & metric running events-no conversions

*OUTDOOR Track and Field

100 yards

10.0-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-6-24-06-Cincinnati

10.0-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-26-06-University of Michigan Interscholastic, Ann Arbor

10.0-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-4-06-Central Ohio Conference, Circleville

10.0-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-6-1-05-


220 yards-straight

21.8-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-18-06-Chillicothe

22 1/5-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-14-06-Chillicothe

23.0-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-4-06-Central Ohio Conference, Circleville


Long Jump

23’5”-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-25-06-Univ.Michigan Interscholastic,Ann Arbor

23’2”-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-6-18-05-Chillicothe

22’7 1/2”-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-26-05-Univ.Michigan Interscholastic,Ann Arbor

21’7 3/4”-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-19-05-Chillicothe

High Jump

6’ 1/4”-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-25-06-Univ.Michigan Interscholastic,Ann Arbor

6’-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-13-06-Chillicothe

6’-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-4-06-Circleville

6’-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-6-2-05-Washington Court House

5’10”-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-26-05-Univ.Michigan Interscholastic,Ann Arbor

5’9”-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-19-05-Chillicothe


Pole Vault

10’6”-Edward Cook-Chillicothe-5-26-05-Univ.Michigan Interscholastic, Ann Arbor

Looks like he was a track star at Chillicothe High School before going on to run for Cornell in the IVY League and then to the 1908 London Olympics, representing the United States.

I guess Logan is not the only one huh? (Katie Smith)

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Guess you won't need to send anything to Bob Bergstrom. Quite a resume.