John Kuck competing in shot put at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1928-1930

Title: John Kuck competing in shot put at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1928-1930
Date Created: [circa 1928-1930]
Date: 1928/1930
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: John Henry Kuck was an American athlete who won a gold medal in the shot put at the 1928 Summer Olympics setting a new world record at 15.87 m. Before the Olympics, as a student at Kansas State Teachers College (Emporia State University) he was the 1926 national collegiate champion and world record holder in both the shot put and javelin.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: John Kuck
Text from negative sleeve: Kuck, John. Track.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Kuck, John, 1905-1986
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.014027
Latitude: -118.287992
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_5410
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cvf5q
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Rights Country: US
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