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NAME: James (Jas) Cowen    Then & Now

DATE: 15 May 2013

CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1956-1963

I was sitting next to an OE (DE Jenkins) at the most recent 40 Club Dinner who commented in regard to athletics that pupils at the school were only running the same times and reaching the same height and distance standards he understands, as many years ago. Can this be true? Does anyone know authoritatively? It would seem surprising given the vast improvement in times and standards in international athletics. There again, EHJ's book An Elizabethan Headmaster 1930‑1961 records athletic records at the time of writing and JF Lockwood (1937/38) still held the records for 100 yards, 220 yards and quarter mile as well as the long jump and Eric Shearley (1939) for the half mile. The most recent record was WS Brown for the high jump in 1960.

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