1910 - 1982
A. C. “Whitey” Gwynne devoted his entire career to the advancement of athletic training. A graduate of West Virginia University, Gwynne was an athletic trainer for the Mountaineers for 30+ years. He also worked with two Olympic basketball teams, including the 1972 team that lost to the Soviet Union in one of the most controversial Olympic moments.
1895 - 1966
Mention track and field at the University of Northern Iowa, and Art Dickinson's name will eventually come up. During his 18 seasons as head track coach and athletic trainer at what was then State College of Iowa, Dickinson's teams won 18 conference titles. He also was considered an exceptional teacher of anatomy, kinesiology and physiology of exercise.
1899 - 1987
Walter “Doc” Bakke was one of the most familiar figures in University of Wisconsin athletic history. He served as head athletic trainer from 1936 until retiring in 1966. Bakke also was the athletic trainer for the St. Louis Cardinals for a brief time during the “Gas House Gang” era.
1905-1984
Henry “Schmitty” Schmidt was an athletic trainer at the University of Santa Clara from 1927-77. In addition to working with Bronco athletes he spent time helping with the Los Angeles Rams summer sessions. A park in Santa Clara now bears his name.
1905 - 1986
Mickey O'Brien went to work for the University of Tennessee in 1938, just in time to help with three successive perfect seasons and trips to bowl games. He helped form the Southeastern Conference Trainers Association and served as its first president. O'Brien is the namesake for an award that recognizes college athletic trainers.
1903 - 1988
Elvin “Ducky” Drake retired from coaching the UCLA track teams at the end of the 1964 season to concentrate on his duties as athletic trainer. In 1973 UCLA honored him by naming the home of its track and field/soccer teams Drake Stadium.
1885 - 1960
Frank Wandle was athletic trainer at Army, Louisiana State University and Yale, where “The Major” revolutionized conditioning and wrote a rules book for the football team. Among Wandle's advice: “Of course there will be days of sunshine and days of darkness. Think of the bright side of life. Tomorrow the sun will be shining again.”
1894 - 1974
Stanley Wallace is remembered as the little man with the big grin who served the University of Maine at Orono for 38 years, from 1921-59. He was a professor of physical education and longtime head of the men's physical education division.
1887 - 1943
Claude “Big Monk” Simons, head athletic trainer at Tulane University from 1921 until his death in 1943, has gone down in history as one of the great names in intercollegiate athletics. Simons was head coach for basketball, baseball, track and boxing at Tulane and president of the Southern Amateur Athletic Union.
1889-1971
Michael Ryan, a distance runner on two U.S. Olympic teams and three times an Olympic coach, won virtually every major long distance race in the world from 1910-12, setting a time of 2:21:18 in the Boston Marathon (a record that stood for nearly a decade). In 1934 Ryan became track coach and athletic trainer at the University of Idaho; he later worked at Wyoming and was co-coach of the 1962 American men's track team.