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travelled to teach diving concepts for a number of years. As an innovative and highly educated coach, Harper discovered a new way to capture the detailed motion of a tumble through the air by strapping a small film camera to his chest. As an innovative coach and a professor of physiology at Ohio State, Harper continued to influence divers the world over. He worked at Ohio State and coached diving for a number of years.
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on June 4, 1932, to Owen and Sarah Harper. In addition to his skills as a diver, he was an outstanding gymnast, taking first in the 1955 Pan
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University as a professor of physiology, retiring from diving around 1961. He worked as a professor of Physiology at Ohio State, and occasionally
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He took the 3-metre outdoor title in 1955 and 1959. He won AAU platform diving honors in 1961. In 1956, he was NCAA champion on the 3-metre springboard, and on both the 1- and 3-metre springboards in 1958. He also won the NCAA trampoline championship in 1956 while at Ohio State.
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