Bob Barney


Director of Intercollegiate Athletics 1972-1979
Pieva Gold Medal for Excellence in Teaching 1985
Founding Director of the International Center for Olympic Studies 1989
Originator of Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies 1989
Lifetime Honorary member of the Canadian Olympic Studies 1992
IoC Olympic Order 1997: ISOH Lifetime Achievement Award 2009
Author of Mustangs 100: A Century of Western Athletics 2013
Honorary Doctor of Laws for distinguished academic career 2014
On what the attitude sports was like on campus
“For the most part pretty good. I think, I think people were proud of
their teams. I think the university certainly placed, put up its athletic traditions as
one of the reasons to attend Western. Not only for athletes, but you know, who wants to
be identified with a school that’s sort of mamby-pamby? It has some cache in the
alumni and with the student body, has some cache. If you’re always getting beaten up by
the other teams in sport, it may not have any indelible effect on you but
psychologically, you go to a party and ‘you’re from Western? oh woah woah, whatever’
you know. So from that point of view, I can make that statement.”
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