TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP TOURS

FRANK WYKOFF SETS A NEW WORLD RECORD -- 100 YARD DASH

•  Wykoff Defeats Hector Dyer
  Frank Wykoff, University of Southern California Trojan beats out Hector Dyer  Stanford University in the 100 yard dash at Palo Alto on May 17, 1930.  Wykoff and Dyer in "Dead Heat" - 220 yard Dash.

• AAU says...Wykoff  Sets A New World Record  At the 1930 Southern Pacific A.A.U. Track & Field Championship meet,  Frank Wykoff set a  new World Record - racing the 100 yard dash in 9.4s  without starting blocks  -- supplanting the World Record title of  9.5s set   by Eddie Tolan in 1929.

• Telegram - Frank Wykoff received a telegram from Charley Paddock

• Massachusetts - I.C.A.A.A.A. National Championship - June 3, 1930
  
   

• 1930 NCAA Track Championship -- A month earlier at the A.A.U. Southern Pacific Track Meet, Frank Wykoff set a new World Record in the 100 yard dash that was being disputed, and during the NCAA Championships on 6-7-30 he equaled his pending World Record of  9.4s that cinched that the record would hold.

WYKOFF VISITS  DES MOINES, IOWA 

IS INTERVIEWED THERE:

• Wykoff at the pulpit judging Paddock's negative influence on youth
   

• Wykoff is abducted off the train at his homecoming in Los Angeles
   

• Newspaper coverage of  Frank Wykoff's abduction.
   

•  Wykoff Visits Relatives - Iowa  -- newspaper article entitled: "FORMER DES MOINES BOY  HAS MANY TROPHIES" -- By:  Ted Ashby

•  Wykoff - California Eagle

• Dinner in Honor of Frank Wykoff  at L A A C (added 4-20-04) Photo Gallery - Dinner given in honor of Frank Wykoff, World's Champion Sprinter, by Herbert Woodward at the Los Angeles Athletic Club on July 1, 1930.

• All American-- The 'All American' page consist of West Coast Athletes who earned the title of 'All American' in 1930 including: Jim Stewart, high jump; Steve Anderson, high hurdles; Vic Williams, USC Relay Team; Ken Churchill, Javelin; Harlow Rothert, Shot put; Frank Wykoff, 100-yard Dash; and Eric Krenz, Discus."