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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Even in 1961, women banned from running distances

A Leading Pioneer

Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times

Dr. Julia Chase-Brand jogging last week. She will run the Manchester Road Race on Thanksgiving Day. “Finishing that race was a defining moment for me,” she said of the 1961 race.

By JERÉ LONGMAN

Published: October 25, 2011

NEW LONDON, Conn. — Except for a strategic bit of elastic that may be required, the blue running tunic, circa Smith College 1961, still fits. It will be worn again a half-century later, this time in celebration and tribute rather than defiance.

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Fifty years ago, Dr. Julia Chase-Brand defied the A.A.U., and convention, by running the famed Manchester Road Race.

On Thanksgiving Day, Dr. Julia Chase-Brand, 69, plans to run a 4.75-mile race in Manchester, Conn., where the presence of women will be plentiful and unremarkable. Fifty years ago, when she and two other women ran there the first time, it was a widely publicized act of civil disobedience that became a pioneering moment in female distance running in the United States.
In 1961, the Amateur Athletic Union prohibited American women from competing officially in road races. When sympathetic race organizers allowed them entry, their results did not count. Even in the Olympics, women were not allowed to run more than a half-mile lest, it was believed, they would risk their femininity and reproductive health. The most alarmist officials warned that a woman who ran a more likely chance to have her uterus fall out.