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Message: [QUOTE="OldSchooler, post: 5308248, member: 11804"] I know this dates me, but I was at Hayward Field in Eugene in June 1971 for the National AAU T&F Championships. This was in Bill Bowerman's hey-day as coach, and Oregon had just installed an all-weather urethane track surface. This was also back in the pre-metric -- and pre-electronic-timing -- days. I saw two world records at that meet -- Rod Milburn knocked two-tenths of a second off the record in the 120-yard high hurdles (13.0). And John Smith ran the 440 in 44.5, in what is still the world record. (Both events have since been replaced by metric equivalents.) But perhaps most memorable was the 3-mile run -- an AAU meet record of 12:58.6 (then the 4th fastest 3-miler ever run), by none other than sophomore sensation Steve Prefontaine. Four years later, he was gone. [/QUOTE]