Hall of Fame track coach Ed Temple, who helped guide history-making Olympians Wilma Rudolph and Wyomia Tyus to greatness, has died, The Tennessean reported, citing an anonymous Tennessee State University source. He was 89.
A native of Harrisburg, Pa., Temple rose to prominence in the 1950s as the track and field coach at Tennessee State, a historically black university in Nashville.
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He turned TSU's women's track team, which he dubbed "the Tigerbelles," into a national power, with the likes of Rudolph and Tyus, who were among 40 TSU women to represent the U.