Iowa Nat'l Champ Brad Smith is making and chasing history

[Todd Conner]

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[texhawkeye]

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I am going to be doing a lot more writing about Iowa Wrestling with more articles on recruiting this summer.

I am working on a Facebook page that will be up soon.

I started at home and really enjoyed working on this article.


It's great to be an Iowa Wrestling Fan.

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Great stuff. As an Iowan living out of state, I really enjoyed this.

 

[GlenHawk]

Great stuff. As an Iowan living out of state, I really enjoyed this.

Very nice article! Enjoyed very much.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

The part on where mat wrestling was more dominant when he took over was interesting. I remember in the 60s that the first takedown was 2 points and the rest were 1 point. It made reversals more important.

 

[pin2winIA]

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I am going to be doing a lot more writing about Iowa Wrestling with more articles on recruiting this summer.

I am working on a Facebook page that will be up soon.

I started at home and really enjoyed working on this article.


It's great to be an Iowa Wrestling Fan.

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[Todd Conner]

The part on where mat wrestling was more dominant when he took over was interesting. I remember in the 60s that the first takedown was 2 points and the rest were 1 point. It made reversals more important.

I have never heard about that type of scoring.

I believe it was n the 1956 Olympics that in Freestyle, a takedown was worth 0 points. The story I heard was that Myron Roderick was a takedown machine, but for no points and he placed fourth at the Olympics because of those rules. Roderick went on to become one of the greatest college wrestling coaches ever at Okie St.

I also remember hearing Tim Johnson on a wrestling broadcast saying that it was Roderick's Okie St teams that were taking opponents down and letting them up back in the 60's.

The change of scoring a takedown as two points has made freestyle much more exciting for today's era.

It would be great to hear more wrestling stories from the past.

Now I feel a strong urge to call Mike Chapman for a wrestling history lesson.

 

[OILCHECKER]

I have never heard about that type of scoring.

I believe it was n the 1956 Olympics that in Freestyle, a takedown was worth 0 points. The story I heard was that Myron Roderick was a takedown machine, but for no points and he placed fourth at the Olympics because of those rules. Roderick went on to become one of the greatest college wrestling coaches ever at Okie St.

I also remember hearing Tim Johnson on a wrestling broadcast saying that it was Roderick's Okie St teams that were taking opponents down and letting them up back in the 60's.

The change of scoring a takedown as two points has made freestyle much more exciting for today's era.

It would be great to hear more wrestling stories from the past.

Now I feel a strong urge to call Mike Chapman for a wrestling history lesson.

Here's a Brad Smith story. Probably slightly exaggerated. Brad was in his first year of coaching at Lisbon, right out of college from Iowa, where he was a national champ. At the end of the season, Lisbon came over to practice at CR Prairie right before state (common thing, lots of other metro teams were there as well). Everyone knew who Smith was and what his credentials were. Anyway, Prairie had a pretty tough middle weight kid on their team that year. Coaches decided to partner the kid up with Smith. Smith likely hadn't had any issues wrestling HS kids at that point in his coaching career but this kid surprised him with a takedown right off the bat and Smith wasn't too pleased, especially considering the room was packed and everyone was sort of watching them out of the corner of their eye. The kids name was Jim Zalesky or something like that. I can remember often Lisbon, Mt. Vernon, the CR teams all getting together right before state and the amount of talent that was in that room and watching kids go at it. The good old days!