Eric Henry Liddell (1902-1945) - Revision history

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 At his graduation later in July 1924, [[Sir Alfred James Ewing (1855-1935)]], the [[Principal]] of the University capped him with a crown of wild olive and the now-famous words: 'Mr Liddell, you have shown that none can pass you but your examiners.' The degree congregation gave him an ovation, and afterwards he was chaired from the University to the High Kirk of St Giles.
-{{Template:BenGal}}[[Later Life]]
+{{Template:BenGal}}
 His career as a world athlete continued for only a year or two after his graduation. He spent a postgraduate year at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh, and then returned to the London Missionary Society's mission in China, where his parents had been worked and where he had been born, and died of typhoid fever in a Japanese internment camp in 1945.

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 [[File:0001959d.jpg|250px|thumb|right|border|Eric Henry Liddell]]Alumnus, missionary, and athlete Eric Henry Riddell is best known for winning the 400 metre Gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics while still a student of Edinburgh University. His devout Christian beliefs had led him to withdrew from his strongest event, the 100 metres, as the heats were to be held on a Sunday.
-Beginnings
+== Beginnings ==
 Liddell was born in 1902, in Tientsin, north China, the second son of the Rev. and Mrs. James Dunlop Liddell, who were Scottish missionaries with the London Missionary Society. Schooled in China until the age of five and then at Eltham College, he matriculated at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in 1920, studying for a BSc in Pure Science.
-Edinburgh University
+== Edinburgh University ==
-Sport played a major role in his University life, and he excelled as both an athlete and a rugby player. He completed at both 100 yards and 220 yards for Edinburgh University Athletic Club and played in the backline of Edinburgh University Rugby Football Club. The latter gained him a place in the Scottish national rugby team, and in 1922-23, he played in seven Five Nations internationals for Scotland, scoring four tries. As the 1924 Olympics approached, however, he focused his efforts on athletics. In 1923, he won the AAA (Amateur Athletic Association) championship setting a British record for the 100 yard dash (9.7 seconds) that would not be matched for 23 years.
+Sport played a major role in his University life, and he excelled as both an athlete and a rugby player. He completed at both 100 yards and 220 yards for [[Edinburgh University Athletic Club]] and played in the backline of [[Edinburgh University Rugby Football Club]]. The latter gained him a place in the Scottish national rugby team, and in 1922-23, he played in seven Five Nations internationals for Scotland, scoring four tries. As the 1924 Olympics approached, however, he focused his efforts on athletics. In 1923, he won the AAA (Amateur Athletic Association) championship setting a British record for the 100 yard dash (9.7 seconds) that would not be matched for 23 years.
-The Paris Olympics
+== Olympic Triumph ==
 When the programme for the Paris Olympics was issued, however, Liddell learned that the heats for the 100 metre sprint, his strongest distance, were to be run on a Sunday. As a devout Christian, Liddell refused to complete on the Sabbath and withdrew, switching his attention to the 200 metre and 400 metre races. He spent the months immediately before the Olympics training for the 400 metres. At the 1924 AAA championship, he won the equivalent distance of 440 yards but his time was still some way short of Olympic standards.
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 At the Paris Olympics, Liddell first qualified for the 200 metre final, where he gained a bronze medal finishing ahead of Harold Abrahams who had earlier won the 100 metre gold for Britain. Liddell went on to qualify for the 400 metre final held on 7 July. At the time the 400 metres was considered a middle distance event, but Liddell opted to approach the final as a sprint, setting off at a searing pace and opening up a considerable lead after 200 metres. He was challenged down the home straight but held off all competition to finish in a time of 47.6 seconds which remained an Olympic record until 1936. His tactics would permanently transform the event.
-Liddell's Christian beliefs also led him to withdrew from two further events, the 4 x 100 metres and 4 x 400 metres relays, the finals of which were to be held on a Sunday. His achievements and his struggle between religious conviction and athletic ambition are portrayed in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire.
+Liddell's Christian beliefs also led him to withdrew from two further events, the 4 x 100 metres and 4 x 400 metres relays, the finals of which were to be held on a Sunday. His achievements and his struggle between religious conviction and athletic ambition are portrayed in the Oscar-winning 1981 film ''Chariots of Fire''.
-Graduation
+== Graduation ==
-At his graduation later in July 1924, Sir Alfred James Ewing (1855-1935), the Principal of the University capped him with a crown of wild olive and the now-famous words: 'Mr Liddell, you have shown that none can pass you but your examiners.' The degree congregation gave him an ovation, and afterwards he was chaired from the University to the High Kirk of St Giles.
+At his graduation later in July 1924, [[Sir Alfred James Ewing (1855-1935)]], the [[Principal]] of the University capped him with a crown of wild olive and the now-famous words: 'Mr Liddell, you have shown that none can pass you but your examiners.' The degree congregation gave him an ovation, and afterwards he was chaired from the University to the High Kirk of St Giles.
-Later Life
+{{Template:BenGal}}[[Later Life]]
 His career as a world athlete continued for only a year or two after his graduation. He spent a postgraduate year at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh, and then returned to the London Missionary Society's mission in China, where his parents had been worked and where he had been born, and died of typhoid fever in a Japanese internment camp in 1945.
 [[Category:Alumni|Liddell, Eric Henry]] [[Category:Benefactors|Liddell, Eric Henry]]

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-[[File:0001959d.jpg|250px|thumb|right|border|Eric Henry Liddell]]
+[[File:0001959d.jpg|250px|thumb|right|border|Eric Henry Liddell]]Alumnus, missionary, and athlete Eric Henry Riddell is best known for winning the 400 metre Gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics while still a student of Edinburgh University. His devout Christian beliefs had led him to withdrew from his strongest event, the 100 metres, as the heats were to be held on a Sunday.
-Liddell was born in 1902, in Tientsin, north China, the second son of the Rev. and Mrs. James Dunlop Liddell, who were Scottish missionaries with the London Missionary Society. Schooled in China until the age of five and then at Eltham College, he matriculted at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in 1920, graduating BSc in Pure Science four years later, after attending classess both at Edinburgh and Heriot Watt.
+Beginnings
-His feat at the 1924 Olympic Games rang round the world then, and has remained in the public consciousness ever since.  The medals are three: the gold for the 400 metres (in which Liddell broke the Olympic and the world records), the bronze for the 200 metres, and his participant's medal. The medal that ought to have been there also, the gold medal for the 100 metres, was won by the Cambridge sprinter Harold Abrahams. Liddell had made that distance his own. He was looking forward passionately to running it, and the world favoured him to win. However, on discovering that the qualifying heats were to be run on a Sunday, a day which he held sacred, he quietly and composedly withdrew from the event altogether. A week later he ran a sprinter's race to win the middle distance event of the 400 metres, which would never be the same again.
+Liddell was born in 1902, in Tientsin, north China, the second son of the Rev. and Mrs. James Dunlop Liddell, who were Scottish missionaries with the London Missionary Society. Schooled in China until the age of five and then at Eltham College, he matriculated at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in 1920, studying for a BSc in Pure Science.
-At his graduation later in July 1924, [[Sir Alfred James Ewing (1855-1935)]], the Principal of the University capped him with a crown of wild olive and the now-famous words: 'Mr Liddell, you have shown that none can pass you but your examiners.' The degree congregation gave him an ovation, and afterwards he was chaired from the University to the High Kirk of St Giles.
+Edinburgh University
-His career as a world athlete continued for only a year or two after his graduation. He spent a postgraduate year at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh, and then returned to the London Missionary Society's mission in China, where his parents had been worked and where he had been born, and died of typhoid fever in a Japanese internment camp in 1945.
+Sport played a major role in his University life, and he excelled as both an athlete and a rugby player. He completed at both 100 yards and 220 yards for Edinburgh University Athletic Club and played in the backline of Edinburgh University Rugby Football Club. The latter gained him a place in the Scottish national rugby team, and in 1922-23, he played in seven Five Nations internationals for Scotland, scoring four tries. As the 1924 Olympics approached, however, he focused his efforts on athletics. In 1923, he won the AAA (Amateur Athletic Association) championship setting a British record for the 100 yard dash (9.7 seconds) that would not be matched for 23 years.
-In May 1992 Mrs Patricia Russell (Liddell's daughter) presented to the University the medals won at the 8th Olympic Games in Paris in July 1924.
+Later Life
-== Gallery ==
+His career as a world athlete continued for only a year or two after his graduation. He spent a postgraduate year at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh, and then returned to the London Missionary Society's mission in China, where his parents had been worked and where he had been born, and died of typhoid fever in a Japanese internment camp in 1945.
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 [[Category:Alumni|Liddell, Eric Henry]] [[Category:Benefactors|Liddell, Eric Henry]]

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 His feat at the 1924 Olympic Games rang round the world then, and has remained in the public consciousness ever since.  The medals are three: the gold for the 400 metres (in which Liddell broke the Olympic and the world records), the bronze for the 200 metres, and his participant's medal. The medal that ought to have been there also, the gold medal for the 100 metres, was won by the Cambridge sprinter Harold Abrahams. Liddell had made that distance his own. He was looking forward passionately to running it, and the world favoured him to win. However, on discovering that the qualifying heats were to be run on a Sunday, a day which he held sacred, he quietly and composedly withdrew from the event altogether. A week later he ran a sprinter's race to win the middle distance event of the 400 metres, which would never be the same again.
-At his graduation later in July 1924 the Principal of the University capped him with a crown of wild olive and the now-famous words: 'Mr Liddell, you have shown that none can pass you but your examiners.' The degree congregation gave him an ovation, and afterwards he was chaired from the University to the High Kirk of St Giles.
+At his graduation later in July 1924, [[Sir Alfred James Ewing (1855-1935)]], the Principal of the University capped him with a crown of wild olive and the now-famous words: 'Mr Liddell, you have shown that none can pass you but your examiners.' The degree congregation gave him an ovation, and afterwards he was chaired from the University to the High Kirk of St Giles.
 His career as a world athlete continued for only a year or two after his graduation. He spent a postgraduate year at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh, and then returned to the London Missionary Society's mission in China, where his parents had been worked and where he had been born, and died of typhoid fever in a Japanese internment camp in 1945.

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 File:0024733d.jpg |[[Student Records#First Matriculation (1869-1961)|First Matriculation]] record for Eric Henry Liddell
-File:0024734d.jpg | [[Student Records~Graduates in Science (1899-1965)|Degree schedule (BSc)]], Eric Henry Liddell
+File:0024734d.jpg | [[Student Records#Graduates in Science (1899-1965)|Degree schedule (BSc)]], Eric Henry Liddell
 File:0024984d.jpg |Photograph of the Relay Team, 1922, including Eric Liddell
 File:0024983d.jpg | Photograph of the Inter-University Champions, 1923-24, including Eric Liddell