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Three time Olympic Gold Champion, and
World record holder in the 100 Yard Dash, Frank Wykoff,
audaciously declared that track and field sports should be "LEFT TO THE
MEN" at a Woman's Athletic Meeting... |
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Was Frank Wykoff in 1935
What Later Became Known as a
"Male Chauvinist?"
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"Mannish Girls, Bah!" |
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Prof. Wykoff
Aims Blow
At Women Athletes
Reprint - Associated Press 1935?
Santa Barbara (AP) Girl athletes who expect to marry happily
and have children should avoid track and field athletic, says
Frank Wykoff, former Glendale champion sprinter. He
recommended swimming, golf, and tennis instead. Heavier
sports make girls too muscular and mannish, he contended.
"Young
women who want desirable husbands and fine children will be wise
to keep away from track and field competition,"
Wykoff declared in a speech to the
Women's Athletic Association of Santa Barbara College.
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GIRLS
BEAUTY MARRED
"I have seen three college girls pass out in faints
after a single race," said Wykoff.
"At the Olympic Village in
Berlin, I was grieved at the signs of stress and strain on faces of
girls who otherwise would be beautiful.
"If you athletically - minded women would
limit your activities in swimming, where success depends on
coordination rather than drawn, and to golf and tennis, your chances
of acquiring desirable husbands and families of healthy children would
be greatly enhanced.
MANNISH WIVES OUT
"No girl wants to
marry a pansy who will sit around and crochet with her and help with
the dishes. No more does a real man want a mannish wife who has
knobs of muscles sticking out like overgrown warts where dimples
should be.
"For the sake of your possible children,
leave track and field athletics to men."
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* FOOTNOTE ... 70 years later
I attended the USC vs. UCLA Meet on 4-30-05, and
I couldn't figure out what my father-in-law, Frank C. Wykoff,
was talking about concerning women in track having ..."knobs
of muscles sticking out
like overgrown warts where dimples
should be."
April 30, 2005
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