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John Duncan Semple (October 26, 1903 – March 10, 1988) was a Scottish-American runner, physical therapist, trainer, and sports official. In 1967, as a race official for the Boston Marathon, he attempted to stop the 20-year-old marathon runner Kathrine Switzer from continuing to run and knocked down her coach when he tried to protect her.
If I quit, Jock Semple and all those like him would win. My fear and humiliation turned to anger. [3] Later, Switzer would soften her views on Semple. The two became friends, and Switzer wrote: I realized Jock Semple was just an over-worked race director protecting his event from people he thought were not serious about running.
English: Runner Kathrine Switzer attacked by race official Jock Semple while running in the 1967 Boston Marathon. Original caption: Who Said Chivalry Is Dead? ... A girl listed only as "K. Switzer of Syracuse" found herself about to be thrown out of the normally all-male Boston Marathon Wednesday when a husky companion Thomas Miller of Syracuse, threw block that tossed race official out of the ...
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One of Kathrine Switzer's most interesting reads involved the 19th-century connection between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Our Marathon is a project housed at Northeastern University's NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, [3] the university's center for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. [4]
The following year, Cloney and Jock Semple attempted to physically remove Kathrine Switzer's numbered bib off of her running clothes. Switzer got away and finished the race. Semple's attack was captured by photographers and the melee on the course made international headlines. [10]
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