It sends chills up and down my spine to watch the films. The Olympic hero came home to an adoring crowd. Hayes went on to play in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, where he gained more than yards that season and led the NFL in yards per catch He was so fast that opposing teams had to play zone defense against him because no one man could cover him when he went out for a pass.
He accomplished all this after coming from a miserable childhood in poverty. It was hard and tough. Even with church on Sunday. It was the fast lane on street corners with my dad. In , the fastest man in the world at meters was not Bob Hayes; it was Henry Carr, who won the U. However, the bungling U. Olympic track and field committee cancelled the results of these trials and made all Olympic track and field candidates compete again in the summer in a second trial in Los Angeles. At that time, Carr was not training for peaking, so he finished fourth and therefore failed to make the Olympic team since only the first three qualify.
Hayes, who had already qualified for the U. Olympic team in the , finished third in the meter race, qualifying for a place also in the meter race. In an incredible act of kindness, Bob Hayes gave up his spot on the meter team to Henry Carr.
Carr was added to the U. Carr was so grateful to Hayes that he trained twice a day and went on to Tokyo to win the meter race in an Olympic record Hayes was born with flat feet.
His doctors told his mother that flat feet could prevent him from being able to walk normally, so they put casts on both of his feet to help straighten them out. Several newspaper articles reported incorrectly that putting casts on Bob Hayes feet at an early age was what allowed him to become such a fast runner.
When you run, you land on the outside bottom of your feet and roll inward to absorb the hard shock of your foot striking the ground. This is called pronation and is good for you.
Hope to see you soon. I still regard Hayes as the greatest sprinter of all time. What he did in Tokyo on a badly cut-up cinder track in poor weather conditions was absolutely staggering. Besides, he appeared and disappeared in his early twenties and never had the chance to hone out his sprinting technique.
In those days, too, top athletes only had 4 or 5 competitions a year. In this day and age, on the international circuit, they have up to some 20 available. And it is in competition, and top competition at that, week in, week out, that you improve your marks.
I can only imagine, or dream, Hayes transported to the modern era with the new training methods, physical recovery, food supplements, equipment, number of competitions and, most of all, the supersonic synthetic tracks on which athletes run nowadays. When Hayes retired he was still very much an uncut diamond, a work still very much in progress.
We never saw his best which is more than can be said of the likes of Bolton. Exactly Miguel,Bob Hayes was undefeated in 49 consecutive sprints 60yds.
NO sprinter today,has even come close to 49 wins in a row. When someone does they could be considered equal with the great Bob Hayes.
Hayes Tokyo Olympic 4by meter relay performance is considered by most experts as the fastest meters of all time,clocked at 8. Some believe he may have run close to 30mph. I rest my case,fastest to ever live. This is an irresistible topic for sprint fans because it will always be pure speculation and subjective opinion. Transfer that And, all this 40 years before the great Lightning Bolt! Well mr bolt is a holder of 9. Clocked at 8. Remember that relay leg was run on a moist dirt track.
Hayes smokes Bolt,no problem. Uncle Robert will always be my World Fastest Human!! Also, the inside lane was grooved from previous walking competition. I am researching a local high schoool graduate and all-American, Paul Gibson. Bold but uninformed. More likely, he would do 9. Settled is not quite the word. He was still fussing with his fingers at the set position when the gun went off.
Caught there and slow getting out, he was an inconspicuous third, but inside of 20 yards he had caught up, and he had shoved his powerful chest ahead after The crowd, bunched up along the rail as if the stadium had tilted the moment Hayes's name was announced, woooooed him down the line.
When he won there was a light wind in his face and an indecently large gap between his heels and the No. The judges confidently clocked him out at 9.
On a fast rubberized track, pushed if that is possible by a Henry Carr or a Harry Jerome or a Larry Questad, it is reasonable to surmise that Hayes at that moment would have become the first man to run yards in less than nine seconds.
He will do it one of these days. Later in the meet Hayes won the yard dash in Hayes was fifth when he got the baton on the second leg. Hayes ran his quarter in a creditable Gaither eventually had to be routed from his place in the infield because his stories had drawn a crowd.
The football coach told of a night in Jacksonville—Bob Hayes Night, as declared by the mayor, because Jacksonville is Hayes's home town—when his pound halfback ran a punt back 83 yards for a touchdown and, in the last quarter, scored twice more to pull out a game against a strong Texas Southern team.
But please do not be misled, said Gaither. What you see before you is not just a great runner but a great pass receiver and a man who can kick off over the goal line and punt 50 or 60 yards.
Football Player Hayes has been drafted as a future by the Denver Broncos and the Dallas Cowboys and is likely to accept a professional contract after the Olympics where he wants to win three gold medals and after the next football season he hopes to be back in time to play in five regular-season games, the Orange Blossom Classic and the North-South game, to which he has already been invited.
Hayes could easily succeed as a pro where other sprinters, like Frank Budd and Glenn Davis, have failed. He is first a football player and second a sprinter.
He has the necessary change of pace, he cuts without diminishing returns on his speed and, as Gaither modestly suggests, "is one helluva fine pass receiver. Hayes runs track like a football player, a fact that is a continuing subject of investigation. If a man is that unorthodox, how does he run that fast? Naturally, nobody tries to change the way Hayes runs. There have been minor modifications. Hill had Hayes move his right hand farther out from his body at the mark because he was coming off in too tight a knot and spiking himself.
He also had him shorten his opening stride to increase acceleration. Hill's nostrils flare at the suggestion that Hayes's starts are less than lightning bolts, and it is true that they have improved, but Hayes still would not win many yard races. Or yard races, either. But he holds world indoor records for 60 and 70 yards, so he clearly—and quickly—makes up for lost time. Hill meanwhile will lose sleep over cause and effect, wind resistance, gravitational pull, the five-day forecast and the importance of brushing after meals if and when they pertain to Robert Lee Hayes.
He has already memorized the weather forecast for Tokyo in October. He plies his student with meaningful figures and subtle textbook psychology. He tells him he is now running That is a mere four-tenths of a foot per second faster. What could be easier, eh? Sometimes you have to be a little devious.
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