Allie Morrison
Olympic athlete
1904 – 1966
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Who was Allie Morrison?
Alvin Roy "Allie" Morrison was an American wrestler who won the freestyle featherweight competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Morrison was the only American wrestler to capture a gold medal at those Games.
Morrison also won three successive United States AAU, National Wrestling Championships, and had an almost perfect career record with merely one contest loss. He was forced to retire in 1929 due to broken vertebra and later coached wrestling and football.
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- Born
- Jun 29, 1904
Marshalltown - Also known as
- Моррисон, Элли
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Died
- Apr 18, 1966
Omaha
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on July 23, 2013
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