re: How fast was Billy Cannon?

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Because of his height, weight, and speed

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Billy cannon ran a 9.6 in this picture in 1957 (eqiv to a 10.54)

He is 6'1", likely around 220 lbs or so wouldnt you say?






When LF ran his 10.68 in the year 2013, he was 6'0" around 220 lbs........

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According to th formula I posted previously (with link), a 9.6 equates to a 10.74.

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I was also wrong though

Billy ran a 9.4 in that photo


His 9.6 was at Istrouma

regardless, do you think a 10.74 in the 100m is fast or no? I have seen all the conversions on this thread range from 10.28 to 10.74. If you are running in that range in high school, you are REAL fast bottom line.

Not sure of your point. I've never said LF was faster. BC was fast, LF wa s as well....neither had elite speed. But their speed is elite to guys that big at that age. 40 speed matters in football more than 100 speed.

I remember his numbers. He ran a 9.3 sec 100 yd dash as an LSU track performer. At the time, he set the SEC record in the 100 yd dash. I don't know how long he held the record. He may still hold it for that matter, since they run the 100 m now.

I am not sure, but I'm pretty sure he also threw the shot put and possibly the javelin. Of course he ran the 220 yd dash and was on the 440 yd relay team.

He was also the punter on the football team and ran several fake punts for long touchdowns.

Alvin Roy was his trainer during HS and college and once said that if Billy Cannon would train for weightlifting he was capable of winning the gold medal in the Olympics.

If there was ever a "freak" athlete, Billy Cannon was king of freaks.

I played football at Istrouma HS when Cannon was there. He was two years ahead of me. I was in the student section in Tiger Stadium when Cannon had the 89 yd touchdown against Ole Miss on Halloween night.

He was absolutely amazing!!!

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He ran a 9.3 sec 100 yd dash as an LSU track performer.

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No baw. He didn't. The world record at the time of the 1960 Olympics was 9.3. I believe it was held by a German. The US representative at the Olympics tied a 9.3 one time. He was a kid from Duke and he ran 9.4 in the Olympics. Billy hit 9.4 a few times, when hand timed, but was mainly a 9.5 kid.

I am unsure, but I think the 1960 Olympic event was in meters but the times I gave you was for yards.

He set the state record by throwing the shot-put like a baseball.

He wasn’t fast, he was sudden.

He could turn out the lights and be in bed before it was dark.

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1. Convert the time into seconds (if appropriate). 2. Divide the time by a yard conversion factor (see table below). 3. Multiply the result from 2 (above) by the race distance, in meters. 4. Convert the time into minutes and seconds (if appropriate). Example Suppose a person runs the 100 yard dash in 12.1 seconds. Since the time is only in seconds, we can skip step one above. The yard conversion factor from the table below is 91.44. Dividing 12.1 by 91.44, we obtain an answer of 0.1323272. Multiplying this answer by the race distance of 100 meters, and then rounding to the nearest tenth of a second, the final time becomes 13.2. Running a 100 yard dash in 12.1 is equivalent to running a 100 meter dash in 13.2.

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you can't just convert it like that. The start is the slowest part of the race and your formula treats the start as part of the conversion. The first 40 yard are accelerating and are a larger percentage of the race for 100 yards vs 100 meters so some adjustment has to be made for that.

4.3 40 yard cant be used to accurately measure a runners 100 yard time other than to say it will be fast.

4.3/40 x 100 =10.75 100 yards = x 1.0936= 11.75 for 100 meters or 109.36 yards

someone who runs a 4.3 40 runs much faster than a 11.75 100m

you can't just simply add 9.36 yards onto the race and proportion the time out to get an accurrate time. Maybe take that time and subtract out another .2 out to account for the larger portion of the 110 yard race that you are running at top speed versus the 100 yard race. instead Of 6/10th of the race at top speed in the 100 you are running 7/10th of the race at top speed in the 109.36 yard race.

really to convert to 100 m time you would have to look at cannons splits and take his last 10 yard split (90-100 yard split) and multiply it by 1.09 then add that on.

then account for hand timed vs radar timed and also better running shoes and faster tracks.


Pr0bably 9.4 plus .9 or some where in there taking everything into account. So his 9.4 probably equals about 10.3 100 m these days or 10.5 if he ran a 9.6