1. Alvin Roy "Allie" Morrison was an American wrestler who won the freestyle featherweight competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
11 Facts About Allie Morrison
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Allie Morrison won three consecutive US AAU National Wrestling Championships and was the 1928 Big Ten champion.
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Allie Morrison never lost a match as a member of the Fighting Illini.
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At the 1928 Olympic Games, Allie Morrison won the gold medal in freestyle wrestling in the featherweight division.
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Allie Morrison became the first native Iowan to win an Olympic gold medal in any sport.
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Allie Morrison was forced to retire in 1929 due to broken vertebra and later coached wrestling and football.
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Allie Morrison has been inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member, the University of Illinois Hall of Fame, and the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame.
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In 1927 Allie Morrison married Ora Bass, a woman from his hometown, they had one daughter, Bessie Jane Allie Morrison Svehla, born in Pennsylvania in 1931.
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On March 2,1929, Allie Morrison broke some of the vertebrae in his neck during a wrestling match.
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Allie Morrison's career was interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the US Navy as a petty officer.
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Allie Morrison retired after 1952 and later would run a tavern.