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Call Number	UAP 2 Folder 080
Photographer	Larson, Clinton F.
Title	[Eugene L. Roberts, Alma Richards and Clinton Larson, ca. 1910]
Description	During the second decade of the twentieth century, BYU produced under the coaching of Eugene L. Roberts (center) two high jumpers of world fame, Alma Richards, left, gold medal winner in the 1912 Olympics, and Clinton Larson, right, world record holder. These super athletes won in many other events also. Richards, born in 1890 in Parowan, Utah, cleared the bar at 6 ft. 4 in. at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm and received the gold medal from King Gustavus V. The versatile athlete then won the shot put at the French Games at Rheims, the high jump and shot put in the French Sports Clubs Games at Paris, the Penn Relays high jump (1913), the high jump and broad jump at the International Collegiate games in Chicago (1913), the decathlon at the National AAU Championships at Chicago (1913), and scores of other honors. He was commissioned a lieutenant in World War I, and in the American Expeditioanry Forces Championships in Paris in 1919, he won the high jump and the standing broad jump; he won second in the triple jump and third in the broad jump. He studied at Cornell at at the University of Southern California and was admitted to the bar, but he taught high school for thirty-one years. He was elected to the Helms Hall of Fame and was named Utah athlete of the century, 1850-1950. He died in 1963 at Long Beach. Larson, born in 1892 in St. George, Utah, won the Utah Collegiate State Meet and the Far West Meet in San Diego in 1916; and in 1917 he jumped 6 ft. 6 in. at BYU, unofficially. He broke the world collegiate record at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia at 6 ft 5 3/8 in. The victory called for a parade in Provo, a celebration, and a dinner sponsored by the Commercial Club at the Roberts Hotel. In 1918, Larson won the high jump in the U.S. Championships in Madison Square Garden, New York. He won the high jump, the running broad jump, the low hurdles, the high hurdles, and the pole vault and placed second in the 100-yard dash in Texas. That year he entered the U.S. Army Air Corps and was commissioned first lieutenant and made the athletic instructor of Squadron 39. In 1919, he took first place in the high jump (6 ft. 4 in.) in the Inter-Allied Games in Pershing Stadium, Paris, the same year Richards was winning medals in the U.S. Expeditionary Force Championships. Also at BYU that year he won first place in eight events at a collegiate meet. In 1920 Larson jumped 6 ft. 8 in., setting a new world record, which he broke in 1924 with a leap of 6 ft. 9 1/2 in. (The world record in 1974 was 7 ft. 6 1/4 in.) Larson taught high school for many years and was a prominent AAU and Olympic official. He died in Salt Lake City in 1952 and was named to the Utah Hall of Fame on November 20, 1974.
Edition	Electronic reproduction;
Publisher Original	Brigham Young University
Date Original	ca. 1910
Date of Photographic Print	ca. 1970-1975
Publisher Digital	Brigham Young University
Date Digital	2005-01
Physical Description	Gelatin Silver; 16.4 x 23.9 cm. (6 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)
Medium	Gelatin Silver
Dimensions	16.4 x 23.9 cm. (6 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)
Holding.Institution (Owning Institution)	Brigham Young University
Subject	Roberts, Eugene L., 1880-1953--Photographs Richards, Alma, 1890-1963--Photographs Larson, Clinton, 1892-1952--Photographs
Personal Names	Roberts, Eugene L., 1880-1953--Photographs Richards, Alma, 1890-1963--Photographs Larson, Clinton, 1892-1952--Photographs
Subject Category	Brigham Young University--History Brigham Young University--Students Brigham Young University--Athletics
Genre	Photographs Group portraits
Historic Time Frame	Brimhall Era 1904-1921
Citation	Brigham Young University : 1000 views of 100 years, 80 top left
Relation (Collection)	BYU Photographs 1000 Views for 100 Years
Provenance	The Brigham Young University Archives at the L. Tom Perry Special Collections in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.
Rights (Patron Usage...)	http://www.lib.byu.edu/sc_copyright.html
Type	image
Format.Use (Format)	image/jpg
Identifier	UAP2_F080_p080topleft.jpg
File Size	4965.258 KB
SIRSI id	a2760331

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