As a college student in 1957, Phil Knight meets Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon, a track coach and they become very good friends. After graduating, Knight leaves to pursue a MBA at Stanford while Bowerman continues to coach and play with an athletic shoe design. ...
Phil Knight was supplementing his modest income from Blue Ribbon Sports Inc. by teaching an accountant class at Portland State University. ... In 1958, Phil Knight, a business major a the University of Oregon, and a miler on the track team, shared with his coach, Bill Bowerman, a dissatisfaction with the clumsiness of American running shoes. ... His educational background is Business Administration, University of Oregon (1959); M.B.A., Stanford University (1962). ... A co-founder of Nike and former University of Oregon miler with a personal best 4:10, Phil Knight received an MBA from Stanford ...
Bowerman was a living legend at the University of Oregon. He was a very accomplished teacher and coach who was responsible for an exceptional track and field program at the university. ... He then gave new product to a few of his runners at the university to try out. ... Johnson, a former Stanford School of Business track runner, gave Blue Ribbon Sports a new name. ... Around this time, when Nike was not making much of a profit, Knight also worked as an accounting teacher at Portland state University. ...
