Posed indoor image of team members.

Team members dressed in swimsuits by the pool.

Bio/Historical Note: The University of Saskatchewan’s first pool opened in 1916. Located in the basement of Qu'Appelle Hall, it was 18 feet wide, 45 feet long and around 8 feet deep with a spring board and changing rooms. Speed swimming, diving, water polo and recreational swimming soon became popular activities in the long Saskatchewan winters. The pool closed soon after the Physical Education pool opened in October 1964.

Posed indoor image of sports coaches: Ches Anderson, wrestling; Lyn Bannister, hockey; Don Bailey, curling; Don Burgess, athletic director; Malcolm Cant, swimming; Don Fry, basketball; Cedric Gillott, soccer; Reg Haskins, fencing; Bob Laycoe, assistant athletic director, assistant football and wrestling coach; Al Ledingham, football; Doris Miller, diving; Barry Mooney, assistant football coach.; Warren McKay, fencing; Wayne Perkins, assistant football coach; Lyle Sanderson, cross country, indoor track and field; Chuck Sebestyen, gymnastics; Tony Schildo, diving; Paul Schoenhals, assistant football coach.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Doris I. Miller earned a Bachelor of Physical and Health Education from the University of Toronto (1961), an MA from University of Oregon (1964) and was the first PhD graduate (1970) from Penn State University’s new biomechanics program. She later earned a Master’s in Divinity from University of Victoria (1990). Dr. Miller's sport biomechanics research spanned four decades investigating a variety of sports, but her true passion focused on diving biomechanics. Dr. Miller is considered a world leader in diving research and was a pioneer in bridging the gap between scientific research and coaching. In her PhD thesis, Dr. Miller developed a 3D multisegmented dynamic model to investigate flight characteristics of diving performance which required a computer mainframe program that used over 3,000 punch cards to create (Wikipedia link to what punch cardcomputing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card). Dr. Miller was a diving coach at the University of Saskatchewan before becoming a faculty member at University of Washington and later University of Western Ontario (now Western University). From 1983-2009 Dr. Miller was a Performance Enhancement Team member for USA Diving and a biomechanist for the Olympic Medal Program. She collected data live at the Fifth World Aquatics Championships in Madrid (1986) and at the Olympic Games in Atlanta (1996) among a host of other international diving competitions. In Madrid and Atlanta, the 10-m diving tower was instrumented with a force plate to capture data live on all competitive dives. During that time, she also worked with Canada’s high-performance divers. As a result, Dr. Miller created an extensive database of all the international divers that she used to create coaching software that permitted the comparison of any diver’s biomechanical data to those of Internationally ranked competitors. This broke the barrier between sport biomechanics research and coaching. Dr. Miller was a founding member of the International Society of Biomechanics, the American Biomechanics Society and the Canadian Society of Biomechanics. She was the sixth president of the American Society of Biomechanics (1984). Dr. Miller was recognized in 2009 by the American Society of Biomechanics with the Jim Hay Memorial Award for Research in Sports Biomechanics. She is a Canadian Society of Biomechanics Career Award recipient and is a Fellow of both the Canadian Society of Biomechanics and the International Sports Biomechanics Society.She is an Honourary Member of the International Society of Biomechanics (2024)..

Reproduction of the article "The "Joe" Griffiths Story: End of an Era."

Bio/Historical Note: Found on page 2 of the June 1951 edition of The Green and White.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in 1885 in Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, Wales, Ernest Wynne (Joe) Griffiths accompanied his family to a homestead at Patience Lake, Saskatchewan. After a youth of varied activity, Joe, as he was known to everyone, joined the Royal North West Mounted Police prior to going overseas with His Majesty's forces in 1915. After his discharge in the fall of 1920, he came to the University of Saskatchewan as its entire Physical Education Department. For the next 32 years his coaching ability in track and field and in swimming had a great impact on the varsity athletic programs. Among the athletes he coached were Ethel Catherwood, gold medalist in high jump at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics; Phyllis Haslam, who broke the world record in breaststroke in 1934; Orvald Gratias, sprinter; and 1952 Olympic decathlete Bob Adams. For 11 years, his swimming teams were unbeaten. In 1936 and 1948 he was asked to serve as a Canadian Olympic team coach. Griffiths organized the first provincial high school track and field meet. The facility, which has been used for national and world-class meets was named Griffiths Stadium in his honour. Griffiths retired in 1951. He helped shape the Saskatoon Playground Association. In his lifetime he was made a life member of the Royal Life Saving Society and received the honour award of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Griffiths died 22 July 1967.

Winnie Rowles dressed in uniform holding a basketball.

Bio/Historical Note: Phebe Winifred Rowles was born 28 July 1907 in Manchester, England. She was educated at Crandall, Manitoba, and Empress, Alberta, where the family homesteaded. Rowles graduated from Nutana Collegiate in Saskatoon and enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1926-1927 she competed in high jump at an intervarsity meet, the first time that women had entered as a team. In other meets Rowles competed in discus and javelin. Rowles played centre on the basketball team. She also was vice-president of the Student Representative Council and a member of the University Athletic Directorate and Women's Athletic Council. Rowles earned her BSc from the U of S in 1930. She was secretary to C.J. MacKenzie, dean of Engineering, when he was consulting engineer on the construction of the Broadway Bridge in the early 1930s. Rowles later worked in Winnipeg and Montreal before serving as director of Women’s Personnel at the C.I.L. nylon plant in Kingston, Ontario. Rowles then joined Dorothy (Riches) Catto in operating "Turkeys Deluxe" at Dewittville, Quebec in the 1950s and 1960s. After two years as an official with the Vancouver YWCA, she retired to Saskatoon. Rowles was named to the U of S Athletic Wall of Fame in 1984 for her basketball and track and field exploits. She was involved with Knox Personal Theatre, Summer Players, the Dominion Drama Festival and the film “Paperback Hero” (she played Keir Dullea’s mother). Phebe and her sisters, Jessie Caldwell and Edith C. Rowles Simpson, were three of 100 Saskatonians honoured on the city’s 100th birthday. Rowles died 29 May 1995 in Saskatoon. The Phebe Rowles Scholarship recognizes academic achievement among U of S students pursuing a graduate degree program with a major in Political Studies. The Rowles sisters - Jessie Caldwell, Edith C. Rowles Simpson and Winnie Rowles - are honoured with the designation of 'Rowles Road' in the Silverwood neighborhood of Saskatoon.