WRESTLING • 1928-30

Allie Morrison won the freestyle featherweight gold medal at the 1928 Olympics as the only American wrestler to capture gold at those Games. He also won three consecutive U.S. AAU National Wrestling Championships, losing just once during his career. Morrison was forced to retire in 1929 after suffering broken vertebra in his neck. The 1928 Big Ten champion, Morrison was undefeated as an Illinois wrestler. Morrison was state of Iowa’s first Olympic gold medalist in any sport. He won three National AAU titles starting in 1926 as a high school senior and is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Morrison died in 1966 at the age of 61.