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[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0033]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Left to right in picture: Coach John Jacobs: Loris Moody, Tulsa; Clyde McGinnis, Tulsa; Henry Janz, Norman; Floyd Lochnor, Agra; and Elwood Cleveland, Oklahoma City."
Date: unknown
Creator: Russell Smith Studio
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0028]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sugar in his coffee . . . . John Jacobs, Oklahoma's track coach for the past 31 years, pauses for a cup of hot java after developing Sooner relay teams that have won the Sugar Bowl mile relay three years in a row, an all-time record for the New Orleans classic."
Date: 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0029]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "When John Jacobs, Oklahoma's veteran track coach, faces a cold day of coaching at "Pneumonia Downs," the Sonners' icy open air indoor layout beneath the east stadium at Norman, he puts on everything he can find to keep from freezing."
Date: 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0037]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An added starter in the recent Sugar Bowl track and field meet at New Orleans, this dark horse University of Oklahoma mile relay team upset three powerful opponents--Texas A&M, Oklahoma A&M and Louisiana State--in 3 minutes 17.3 seconds and by way of celebration, hoist their coach, John Jacobs, to their shoulders."
Date: 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0004]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "During the meeting this week in which the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State in door track duel was set for February 8, officials checked Stockyards Coliseum to see how much "stopping" room sprinters would have after completing the 60-yard dash."
Date: 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0034]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma's veteran John Jacobs, now associate track coach of the Sooners, receives a plaque from Colorado's Frank Potts (in raincoat), who made the presentation at Saturday's Big Eight meet on behalf of the other conference track coaches."
Date: May 16, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0008]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At his own request, John Jacobs, Oklahoma's 66-year old track coach, will work hereafter in part-time status and Bill Carroll, his assistant, is the new Sooner head coach."
Date: 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0036]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "With Mrs. Pat Simpson, wife of one of the Sooner shot-putters, seated on the freezer, John Jacobs, for 24 years the University of Oklahoma track and crosscountry coach, will launch the Sooners' 1946-47 track season with an ice cream feed and motion pictures of last year's Oklahoma Interscholastic track and field finals at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night in the Fieldhouse at Norman."
Date: 1946
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0038]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Jacobs, (left) veteran University of Oklahoma track coach, and Bennie Owen, former Sooner coach who is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, were among guests at the Touchdown club dinner here Friday night."
Date: April 13, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0035]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The hay in the pole vault pit is so deep at Oklahoma's new indoor track quarters at the north campus drill hall that coach John Jacobs literally has to dig Bill Carroll, Okemah pole-vaulter, out with a pitchfork each time Bill falls from aloft."
Date: 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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