Dale Lewis
Dale Folsom Lewis (born August 29, 1933 in Little Black , Taylor County , Wisconsin , † August 30, 1997 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma ) was an American wrestler .
Life
Dale Lewis grew up in Milwaukee . As a teenager, he played American football and baseball in high school . In 1954 he began studying at Marquette University, which he gave up a year later to join the US Marine Corps. There, too, he primarily devoted himself to American football. In the winter semester of 1955/56, wrestling trainer Joe Scalzo began to build up a wrestling squadron in the Greco-Roman style. This style was hardly practiced in the United States until then, as the universities only wrestled in the free style.
Due to his good physical condition, Dale Lewis was accepted into this program and developed into such a good heavyweight wrestler within six months that he was taken as a substitute for the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . When there the intended as the actual starter in the heavyweight athlete failed due to injury, Dale Lewis was used in Melbourne in heavyweight. There he managed as a completely inexperienced athlete on the international wrestling mat against the world-class athletes Taisto Kangasniemi from Finland and Bertil Antonsson from Sweden , the latter after all Olympic champion in 1952 and multiple world champion , to go the full distance and only lose on points. He started his journey home with a 9th place.
In 1958, Dale Lewis retired from the Marine Corps and began a new course at the University of Oklahoma . There he continued to devote himself to wrestling, but now also started in the free style. In 1960 he was the first time heavyweight winner in free style at the NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships (= US student championship). In the same year he was used again at the Olympic Games in Rome in the Greco-Roman style in the heavyweight division. Dale Lewis also had to admit defeat to his two opponents István Kozma from Hungary and Adelmo Bulgarelli from Italy , but went against Kozma again for the full fighting time of 15 minutes. In the end result, he finished 11th.
In 1961 he won the NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships again. He then joined the professional wrestlers and fought as such for many years, especially in the United States and Canada . Because of his academic background, he was nicknamed "The Professor" there. In 1978 he gave up professional wrestling and became a hotel manager. Lewis died of leukemia the day after his 64th birthday.
successes
- International
- 1956, 9th place , Olympic Games in Melbourne , Greco-Roman style, heavyweight, after losing to Taisto Kangasniemi , Finland a . Bertil Antonsson , Sweden ;
- 1960, 11th place , Olympic Games in Rome , Greco-Roman style, heavyweight, after defeats against István Kozma , Hungary a . Adelmo Bulgarelli , Italy
- National
- 1960, 1st place, NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships, free style, heavyweight, in front of Sherwyn Thorson, John Oberly u. Rory Weber,
- 1961, 1st place, NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships, free style, heavyweight, in front of Ted Ellis, Rory Weber u. John Oberly
swell
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA, 1976, pages 0-57 u. 0-62
- NCAA University Sports Association website - statistics section
Web links
- Dale Lewis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lewis, Dale |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lewis, Dale Folsom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Little Black , Taylor County, Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1997 |
| Place of death | Oklahoma City |