1976 Montreal Summer Games
6,189 Athletes, 93 Countries, 198 Events
Swimming experienced significant change in Montreal with world
records broken in 21 of 26 events. Ivy Leaguer Robert
Hackett (Harvard '79) was part of this onslaught of the
record books. In the 1500-meter freestyle, Hackett posted a time of
15:03.91. His time beat the world record going into the race
(15:06.66), and bested the gold medal time from the 1972 Munich
Games by nearly 50 seconds. Yet fellow American Brian
Goodell, who posted a time of 15:02.40, beat him.
Frank Shorter (Yale '69) won the marathon at
the 1972 Munich Games. In the four years since, Shorter was busy
becoming a lawyer while still training attempting to see where his
running career would 'level off.' From about the 15-mile mark
onwards, Shorter was either in the lead or neck-and-neck with East
German Waldemar Cierpinski. Cierpinski referred to
Shorter as his 'idol as a marathon runner.' Shorter could not hold
on to the very end Cierpinski won gold by a little less than a
minute. Shorter would go on to become a lawyer, and an Olympic
commentator for NBC. He also started his own sportswear line, Frank
Shorter Sports.
Among the 38 Ivy Leaguers in Montreal were Marion
Greig (Cornell '76), Anita DeFrantz
(Penn), Carol Brown (Princeton '75), and
Anne Warner (Yale '77). All four women were in the
United States eight-oared boat in the first year that women's
rowing was an official Olympic event. They managed a third-place
finish. But more importantly, they were making strides in
establishing gender equality. Earlier in the year at Yale, Warner
was part of a protest by the Yale women's crew team in hopes of
getting adequate facilities comparable to that of the men's team
and upholding the four-year old Title IX. The protest was led by
Warner's teammate and fellow Olympian, Chris Ernst
'76, and received national attention. Many years later, it was
subject of a documentary, 'A Hero for Daisy.'
| Name |
School |
Sport |
| Tom Losonczy |
Columbia University |
Men's Fencing |
| Norman Freeman |
Cornell University |
Men's Sailing |
| Marion Greig |
Cornell University |
Women's Rowing |
| Walter 'Chip' Lubsen |
Cornell University |
Men's Rowing |
| David McFaull |
Cornell University |
Men's Sailing |
| Michael Staines |
Cornell University |
Men's Rowing |
| Edward E. Emerson, Jr. |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Equestrian |
| Julia H. Geer |
Dartmouth College |
Women's Rowing |
| Richard Cashin |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| David Fellows |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| Robert Hackett |
Harvard University |
Men's Swimming |
| Alan W. Shealy |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| David L. Weinburg |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| Christopher R. 'Tiff' Wood |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| James Castellan |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| Frank D. Chapot |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Equestrian |
| Steven Christensen |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| Robert L. Cragg |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Swimming |
| Kenneth B. Dreyfuss |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| John D. Hartigan |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| Brooke Makler |
University of Pennsylvania |
Women's Fencing |
| Hugh Matheson |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| Catherine Menges Zagunis |
University of Pennsylvania |
Women's Rowing |
| James E. Moroney, II |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| Frederick A. Samara |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Athletics |
| Laura T. Staines |
University of Pennsylvania |
Women's Rowing |
| C. Hugh Stevenson |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| George Tintor |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| Carol Brown |
Princeton University |
Women's Rowing |
| Mimi Kellogg |
Princeton University |
Women's Rowing |
| Peter Cortes |
Yale University |
Men's Rowing |
| Chris Ernst |
Yale University |
Women's Rowing |
| Robert Ridland |
Yale University |
Men's Equestrian |
| David Ross |
Yale University |
Men's Shooting |
| Frank Shorter |
Yale University |
Men's Athletics |
| Brad Simmons |
Yale University |
Men's Shooting |
| Anne Warner |
Yale University |
Women's Rowing |