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Description:: Louis Zamperini ran track and field for Torrance High School and USC. He qualified in the 5000 meters race for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. While attending USC in 1938, he set the national collegiate mile record.
Date:: [circa June 7, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Juan Carlos Zabala was an Argentine long-distance runner, winner of the marathon race at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Date:: June 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Louis Zamperini stands on the track of Bovard Field, University of Southern California, photographed from the waist up. He is wearing a Torrance High School track uniform.
Date:: [circa June 7, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Left to right: Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico, J. Westbrook Pegler, Babe Didrikson, and Braven Dyer. Dyer wrote for the Los Angeles Times. Gallico was a sportswriter as well as a novelist. Rice wears traditional golfing clothes: plus fours, long golf socks, and a golf cap. The other men wear belted slacks. All the men are wearing button down shirts; Pegler's is collarless, and Rice wears a bow tie. Pegler also is wearing a golf cap. Didrikson wears a midi skirt and a t-shirt with the Olympic logo, and a soft brimmed hat. All five people are holding golf clubs at their sides or in front of them; five golf balls lie on the ground around a hole.
Date:: [circa January 21, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Charley Paddock leaping through finish line in race with full crowd of onlookers. Charley Paddock was a two time Olympic gold medal winner for the 100 meter race.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Louis Zamperini ran track and field for Torrance High School and USC. He qualified in the 5000 meters race for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. While attending USC in 1938, he set the national collegiate mile record.
Date:: [circa June 7, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Long distance runners Paul de Bruyn (Germany) and Juan Carlos Zabala (Argentina) shake hands. In Los Angeles for the 1932 Summer Olympics, Zabala won the marathon and De Bryun finished 15th.
Date:: August 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Charley Paddock leaping through finish line at Los Angeles Coliseum.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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