Arkansas State University athletes are mourning the death of Guy Ward Kochel Jr., 78, who coached ASU’s track and field program from 1972-89, including Olympian Earl Bell. KAIT, Ch. 8, posted the note it got from Bell: “Coach Kochel was a great role model, mentor, & friend. He was a great coach,…
Don Bragg and Theresa, the girl he would marry, were a couple of small-town high-school kids back in Penns Grove, N.J. in the 1940s. On Saturday nights, they would sit together in the dark at the Broad Theater or the Graves Theater, and they never missed a show when a…
Don Bragg, who was denied his dream of playing Tarzan in the movies but parlayed his imposing physique into a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1960 Rome Olympics, died on Saturday at his home in Oakley, Calif., near San Francisco. He was 83. His wife, Theresa Bragg,…
Pioneer of the pole vault in New Zealand Mervyn Richards of Mosgiel died on Sunday 1 July 2018 aged 87. He won 11 straight national pole vault titles from 1952 to 1962. In winning the 1958 title he became the first New Zealander to vault 14 feet (4.27m). He set…
