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Stan Wright (August 1, 1921 – November 8, 1998) was the first African-American head coach of a United States track and field team. A noted college and national track coach and administrator over a forty-year period, he coached many Olympians and world record holders, for which, in 1993, he was rewarded with membership in the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame.〔http://www.usatf.org/halloffame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=190 United States Track and Field, Hall of Fame, Stan Wright〕 He achieved notoriety in 1972 as the man held responsible for the two American favourites for the 100 meters title, Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson, missing their quarter-final races. He was later exonerated in an official report to the United States Olympic Committee. == College coaching career== Born August 1, 1921 in Englewood, New Jersey,〔 Wright graduated from Springfield College in Massachusetts in 1949.〔http://www.oocities.org/tsusports/wright.html TSU Tiger Athletics Hall of Fame: Class of 1976: Stanley Wright, Track and Field Coach (1951 - 1967). Retrieved 22 February 2013.〕 Wright was a track coach for 26 years at Texas Southern University, acting as Head Track Coach between 1950 and 1967. Here he coached 4 Olympians, including the winner of the 100 meters at the 1968 Olympics, Jim Hines.〔http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-29/sports/sp-62198_1_stan-wright Los Angeles Times, 'The Fall Guy: At Least Stan Wright gets to the Hall of Fame on Time', Randy Harvey, 29 November 1993.〕 Jim Hines, from Oakland, California had deliberately chosen to study at Texas Southern because it had the best track and field team in the country.〔Duncanson N, The Fastest Men on Earth, p. 161〕 He was later Head Track Coach at Western Illinois University, between 1967 and 1969, and California State University, Sacramento, between 1969 and 1979. He acted as Athletics Director for Fairleigh Dickinson College between 1979 and 1985.〔http://speedendurance.com/2010/02/01/usa-black-history-month-stan-wright-track-coach/ speedendurance.com, 'USA Black History Month - Stan Wright, Track Coach', Jimson Lee, 1 February 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stan Wright (track coach)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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