Allie Morrison

Alvin " Allie " Roy Morrison ( born June 29, 1904 in Marshalltown, Iowa, † April 18, 1966 ) was an American wrestler. He was Olympic champion in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 in the free style in featherweight.

Career

Allie Morrison attended high school in his hometown of Marshalltown and then the University ov Illinois. With the struggle he had already begun in Marshalltown. He won there several national competitions in free style. In 1924, he already took part in the American excretion for the Olympic Games in Paris in the spring weight. He suffered a defeat there, but in the final battle and thus did not qualify for the U.S. Olympic team. Supposedly, this defeat was said to be the only one in his entire career Ringer.

In 1926 he was American featherweight champion for the first time. This title he repeated in 1927 and 1928. In 1928 for the first time found U.S. students Championships ( NCAA Championships ) instead, but where he could not attend because he was preparing for the Olympic Games in Amsterdam.

In Amsterdam he won the gold medal in freestyle wrestling featherweight with wins over Peter Bressnink, Belgium, Hans Minder, Switzerland and Kustaa Pihlajamäki, Finland. This victory was his only at an international championship. This was above all the fact that at that time there were no world championships in which he could participate. World Championships in freestyle wrestling amateurs were not introduced until 1951.

1929 Allie Morrison suffered a severe vertebral injury that forced him to give up the struggle. He moved over to the coach office and was, until his retirement coach at several universities and high schools, such as the Omaha Central High School, the University of Nebraska and the Pennsylvania State University. From 1943 to 1945 he was a soldier.

International success

Swell

  • Journal Athletics from 1928,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships, FILA, 1976,
  • Website " www.wrestlingmuseum.or "
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