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As the coach of the Chinese sports delegation, he led Liu Changchun to participate in the 10th Olympic Games, passing through the port of Nagasaki, Japan, and refused to go ashore in protest against the Japanese army's aggression in Northeast China.
He actively organized and led the Chinese sports delegation to participate in the 11th Olympic Games, and was approved as an international basketball referee in the same year.
He once again went to London, England as a member of the Chinese sports delegation to participate in the 14th Olympic Games;
He is China's first Olympic coach - Song Junfu.
Song Junfu data map.
As one of China's first sports experts and a well-known physical educator, Song Junfu devoted his life to the development and growth of Chinese sports, and participated in the 10th, 11th and 14th Olympic Games in 1932, 1936 and 1948 respectively, becoming the only person to have participated in three Olympic Games before the founding of New China.
Three Olympic appearances
Throughout Song Junfu's life, the most conspicuous thing is his experience of competing in the Olympics three times.
After the September 18 Incident, the Ministry of Education in charge of sports work of the Kuomintang government rejected the request of the All-China Sports Association (the Chinese Olympic Committee officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1931) on the "ground" of the national crisis, and announced that it would not send athletes to participate in the 10th Los Angeles Olympic Games. At this time, however, Japanese imperialism wanted to send northeastern athletes Liu Changchun and Yu Xiwei to participate in the Olympic Games on behalf of the puppet "Manchukuo," which immediately aroused anger and protests from progressive forces and people in the sports circles.
In 1932, China participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, from left: Hao Gengsheng, the initiator of the Olympic Games, Liu Changchun, an athlete, and Song Junfu, a coach.
Song Junfu, who was formerly a professor of physical education at Northeastern University, had just arrived at National Shandong University from Shenyang at this time, while Liu Changchun was a student of physical education at Northeastern University, and the two had a good teacher-student relationship. Under the strong inspiration of his teacher Song Junfu, Liu Changchun issued a statement in the "Sports Weekly" and said: Gou Yuzhi's conscience is still there, and his blood is still flowing, how can he forget the motherland and be a puppet and a puppet country.
Later, under the careful operation of Song Junfu and others, Liu Changchun was the only athlete to participate in the 10th Olympic Games, which was the first time that China sent athletes to participate in the Olympic Games. At that time, there were only three official members of the Chinese delegation, namely team leader Hao Gengsheng, coach Song Junfu and athlete Liu Changchun, and the actual leader of the delegation was Song Junfu.
The Chinese delegation to the 10th Los Angeles Olympic Games entered the venue.
Song Junfu's enthusiasm for the country's sports cause has also driven Shanda's enthusiasm for cultivating sports talents for the country.
In preparation for the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany in 1936, the Nationalist Government ordered the All-China Sports Association to start preparations in 1935 in view of the lessons learned from the previous Games, and to train and select high-level athletes in advance. From July to August this year, Qingdao Shandong University held a summer training camp to train men's track and field, basketball and other events.
In 1936, the Chinese Olympic delegation had a total of 69 athletes, who participated in six major competitions: track and field, swimming, weightlifting, cycling, boxing, basketball and football, and Liu Changchun was selected again. Song Junfu has a lot of research on basketball, in addition to tutoring Liu Changchun, he also served as the coach of the basketball team of the Chinese delegation in the 11th Olympic Games.
During the intense training process, Song Junfu received another notice: he was qualified as an international basketball referee, and there was no record of whether he served as a basketball referee in this Olympic Games.
The Nationalist Government saw off the Chinese delegation to the 11th Olympic Games.
In 1948, the last time old China formed a team to participate in the 14th London Olympic Games, Song Junfu and Wang Zhengting, Dong Shouyi, Xu Minghui, Ma John and other 7 people formed a selection committee, fully responsible for the formation of the Chinese delegation, and at the same time served as a member of the Football Responsibility Committee and as the coach of the Chinese basketball team, went to London, England to participate in the 14th Olympic Games.
That year, China sent 33 male athletes to compete in five sports: basketball, football, track and field, swimming and cycling.
Construction of China's first Olympic stadium
In 1931, after returning from Los Angeles, Song Junfu was deeply aware of the backwardness of Chinese sports. Throwing off the hat of "the sick man of East Asia" and building a five-star stadium in China was a dream that Song Junfu had when he was studying in the United States.
During his participation in the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Song Junfu was deeply impressed by the construction of the main venue of the Olympic Games, and it became one of his wishes to build a stadium with Olympic characteristics in China.
Qingdao Stadium.
In 1933, the 17th North China Games would be held in Qingdao, which made Song Junfu's idea of building an "Olympic-style stadium" a matter of course. At the end of June of that year, Qingdao No. 1 Stadium, which cost 190,000 yuan and took four months, was completed in Huiquan Bay with drawings provided by Song Junfu.
At that time, the Qingdao Stadium designed by Song Junfu, with a zigzag castle-like wall, was the only miniature version of the Los Angeles Stadium "overseas". In July 1933, this famous Olympic building was officially put into use, covering an area of 76,000 square meters and accommodating 16,000 spectators, which has had a profound impact on the development of Chinese sports for more than half a century.
It is worth mentioning that Qingdao Stadium adopted the most advanced track at that time - 400-meter basket track, 8 straight lanes and 6 curves, which was created by the German Dr. Dimu, and its appearance ended the domestic "straight" runway, which was a "runway revolution".
After the completion of Qingdao Stadium, it immediately became the premier stadium in China. Since then, many major domestic events have been held here. Later, it was remodeled on the original site and is now Tiantai Stadium, which is used as the home of Qingdao Zhongneng Football Team to compete in the Chinese Super League.
He has twice served as the head of the Department of Physical Education of Shandong University
Song Junfu served twice as the director of the Department of Physical Education of Shandong University in that war-torn era.
Song Junfu first served as the director of the Department of Physical Education of Shandong University in 1932-1937, in 1931 after the Japanese occupation of Northeast China, after the relocation of Northeastern University, Song Junfu came to Qingdao and served as the director of the Department of Physical Education of National Shandong University, in 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Song Junfu left Shandong; The second time was from 1946 to 1949, when Song Junfu once again served as the director of the Department of Physical Education of Shandong University.
In May 1932, Ta Kung Pao reported: Hao Gengsheng and Song Junfu were hired by Shandong University.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Song Junfu went to Beijing to serve as a professor at Beijing Normal University, and later became the dean and vice president of Beijing Institute of Physical Education, and died at the age of 80.
Regarding Song Junfu's evaluation when he was teaching at National Shandong University, Tian Guangqu (former editor of "New Mountain University") believes that "he and many famous teachers such as Lao She, Liang Qiushi, Tong Dizhou, Wang Pu, Fu Ying, etc., jointly held up the glory of Shandong University."
Material sources: Archives of Shandong University, History Museum of Shandong University, official WeChat account of Shandong University