AAA Championships at Fartown, Huddersfield | movie | 1901 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The annual championship meeting of England's premier athletics association. | dG1fWkJMQWR6V0ZTSmc

Transcript

00:00 The earliest Amateur Athletics Association Championship captured on film was at Huddersfield

00:13 on 6th July 1901.

00:17 Arthur Duffy, the American winner of the 100 yards, is seen posing for the camera, maintaining

00:21 his magnificent coiffure.

00:24 Duffy retained this title for four consecutive years from 1900 to 1903.

00:29 In 1902 he ran 100 yards in 9.6 seconds, which remained a world record for 24 years.

00:36 The elaborate dressing gown worn by Duffy was quite normal attire for keeping warm before

00:41 the tracksuit became commonplace.

00:45 Also posing in his dressing gown is William Coe, the shot put winner, who represented

00:49 the USA and Oxford University.

00:52 Coe won the silver medal at the 1904 St Louis Olympic Games.

00:57 Another American, Alvin Krentzline, won the 120 yard hurdles.

01:02 At the Paris Olympics in 1900 he won four gold medals.

01:10 Peter O'Connor of Ireland, winner of the long jump.

01:13 A month later in Dublin he jumped 24 feet and 11 and three quarter inches, which stood

01:18 as a world record for 20 years.

01:22 Another athlete who helped America maintain their domination at the AAA Championships

01:27 in 1901 was Irving Baxter, the gold medal holder for pole vault and high jump at the

01:32 1900 Paris Olympics.

01:34 He was the joint winner of pole vault at this meeting, but also won the high jump and finished

01:39 third in the 120 yard hurdles.

01:42 We see four attempts at the vault until the final successful one, which placed him equal

01:46 first alongside the next competitor, W. Hodgson.

02:10 Tom Kiley of Ireland, winner of the hammer.

02:13 This was the fourth of his five wins in the championship.

02:16 He was also runner up twice, as well as coming second in the 120 yard hurdles in 1898.

02:22 Kiley won the all-round title, a precursor of the decathlon, at the 1904 St Louis Olympics.

02:31 The medal winner's in the hammer posing for the camera.

02:33 On the left is Ernest May of Oxford University, who finished second.

02:37 In the centre, a very sheepish looking Henry Leake of Cambridge University, who finished

02:41 third.

02:42 The gold medal winner, Tom Kiley, is on the right.

02:50 The three medal holders in the hammer are shot in action.

02:53 First Ernest May, followed by his fellow Englishman Henry Leake.

03:05 And finally the gold medal winner, and one of the greatest athletes of his day, Tom Kiley.

03:09 John Cleave from Oxford University, winner of the 880 yards, poses for the camera.

03:30 But unlike the Americans, goes for a smart blazer, instead of the lavish dressing gowns

03:35 of his competitors.

03:36 (gentle music)