Douglas Raymond set all kinds of records in high school, prep school, and college, competing in the 440 indoors and the 600 outdoors and he held every middle distance record during his undergraduate days at BU.
Doug became the Terrier head coach of track in 1946, right after World War II, and for the next 15 years turned out famous Olympians and world record holders in about every event. Track stars came from afar to have Doug coach them. John Lawlor left Dublin and bypassed Yale just to have Doug make him the best hammer thrower and 35-pound weight tosser in the world. John Thomas turned down close to 100 offers in order that Doug could teach him how to get over the bar at the seemingly 7-foot barrier and John has cleared the 7-foot mark 191 times, more then any man in track history.
Doug was popular with his fellow coaches when at BU and was elected president of the IC4A track Coaches Association, Vice-Chairman of the New England Track and Field A.A.U., and President of the Eastern Intercollegiate AA.
He has sent dozens of men to the Olympics, including Doctor Lawlor, John Thomas, John Kelley, the younger, Cliff Blair, Al Schoterman, Jacques Accumbray, and Gerald Tinker, to name a few.
