Allie Morrison
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June 29, 1904
 Allie Morrison at the 1928 Olympics | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | Alvin Roy Morrison June 29, 1904 Marshalltown, Iowa, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | April 18, 1966 (aged 61) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Freestyle and Folkstyle | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Illinois | ||||||||||||||
| Team | USA | ||||||||||||||
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Alvin Roy "Allie" Morrison (June 29, 1904 – April 18, 1966) was an American wrestler who won the freestyle featherweight competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[1] Morrison was the only American wrestler to capture a gold medal at the 1928 Olympic Games.
As a high school sophomore, Morrison wrestled at the U.S. Olympic trials, but lost to the eventual champion. It was the only defeat of Morrison's wrestling career. Morrison wrestled collegiately at the University of Illinois. He won three consecutive U.S. AAU National Wrestling Championships and was the 1928 Big Ten champion. He never lost a match as a member of the Fighting Illini. At the 1928 Olympic Games, Morrison won the gold medal in freestyle wrestling in the featherweight division. Morrison became the first native Iowan to win an Olympic gold medal in any sport. He was forced to retire in 1929 due to broken vertebra and later coached wrestling and football.
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.[2]
