Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track, all of this a year after breaking three track world records and tying a fourth in the Big Ten Championships when he was a student at The Ohio State ...

Jesse Owens was a track standout who attended Ohio State in 1933. He went on to become the first Black varsity team captain at a Big Ten college. Aga Khan, World Leader of Ismaili Muslims ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... In his junior year at Ohio State, Owens competed in 42 events and won them all, including four in the Big Ten Championships ...

The photograph depicts Jesse Owens in Cleveland on August 25 ... and long jumped 24 feet, 9-1/2 inches. At Ohio State University, while working his way through college, he won a record eight ...

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...

BERLIN - 1936 : Jesse Owens of the USA in action in ... These replacement medals are in a museum at his alma mater, Ohio State University. Owens also hit his stride in the 1960s, making money ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from ... 220-yard dashes and the long jump (called the broad jump then). At Ohio State, he was not a good student but he was easily the swiftest on ...