Bowerman, Bill

Bowerman, Bill
▪ 2000

      American coach, inventor, and entrepreneur who while serving (1949–72) as coach of the track team at the University of Oregon led teams to four National Collegiate Athletic Association titles (1962, 1964, 1965, and 1970) and coached 24 NCAA individual champions; in his quest to give his runners an edge, Bowerman experimented with creating a lighter outsole and fashioned the modern-day “waffle” running shoe by using his wife's waffle iron to meld his revolutionary new design, using latex, leather, and some glue. During the 1960s Bowerman and Phil Knight, one of the athletes whom Bowerman had coached, each contributed $500 and manufactured 330 pairs of the new lightweight shoes. The venture was the foundation for Nike Inc., which was named for the Greek goddess of victory. In 1999 Bowerman retired from the Nike board of directors (b. Feb. 19, 1911, Portland, Ore.—d. Dec. 24, 1999, Fossil, Ore.).

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