1. William Louis "Colonel Bill" Hayward was a track and field coach at the University of Oregon and a track coach for six United States Olympic teams, from 1908 through 1932.
10 Facts About Bill Hayward
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Bill Hayward's parents were Canadians and he grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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An all-around athlete likened to Jim Thorpe, Hayward excelled at ice hockey, rowing, wrestling, boxing, and played lacrosse on one of the Ottawa Capitals' world championship teams of the 1890s.
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Bill Hayward was renowned as one of Canada's fastest sprinters, running distances from 75 to 600 yards.
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Bill Hayward's first coaching job was as an assistant track coach, first at Princeton University in New Jersey in 1898, and then out west at the University of California in Berkeley.
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In 1903, Bill Hayward took the head job at Albany College, where his track team defeated the University of Oregon.
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In 1912, Bill Hayward was a coach for the United States team at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden, the first of a string of six Olympics in which he coached, through 1936.
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Bill Hayward retired from coaching at age 79 in the fall of 1947.
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Bill Hayward was hospitalized a few months later after being stricken with a heart ailment, and died at Sacred Heart Hospital on December 14,1947.
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Bill Hayward was an inaugural inductee to both the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1980 and the University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992.