Word: ellinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At 60, Von Elling had just capped his best year. His N.Y.U. team walked away with the Indoor Intercollegiates and captured the National A.A.U. championship, the first time a college team had turned the trick. Of the year's six outstanding track men, two-Dixon and Shotput Champion Bernie...
Generations of N.Y.U. undergraduates have known and loved gentle, cigar-smoking Emil Von Elling. He started coaching track at N.Y.U. 30 years ago, when few New York City college boys had ever seen a spiked shoe. Now some 150 boys turn out each year for his team. He finds them...
Acrobat to Psychoanalyst. Born on Manhattan's lower East Side, Emil Von Elling haunted gymnasiums where vaudeville acrobats trained; he became a skilled acrobat himself. At 14 he passed his college entrance examinations with honors and set out to be a doctor. But he had to quit C.C.N.Y. for...
Running, says Coach Von Elling, requires little teaching: any healthy undergraduate can pick up distance running in a week. In training his star milers Von Filing concentrates on physical conditioning and judgment of pace. In developing stars for every event, 30 years' experience has taught him that a great...
One of Von Elling's toughest cases was a boy he once discovered jumping onto some porch steps. The coach trained him carefully, but to his dismay the boy failed to show up at his first big meet. Said the boy: "I couldn't bear to appear half...