Im emotional about it because theres still a lot of meaning , Where Are They Now: Catching up with former Cavs guard Craig Ehlo, His voice trails off, and he lifts a hand to dry his eyes; something thats been buried deep is suddenly resurfacing. Owings was the first UW wrestler to win an NCAA title, but what mattered was that he had upset a man the Russians reverently called "The Machine," a man who had won 181 straight matches, 108 by pins. He took notice of the young Husky, perhaps more than appropriately. The night before the start of the tournament, a teammate asked if hed seen the front page of the Chicago Tribune sports section. >ZY&k>.w6jI.E]^`OUF2X28U2EaI<5^F:+}TskfpjSiC)s5:V\4jgU3[[8?&JzK'[Iz)MHeqk}\"/y fd8< iqNHh|@bLM(uE'+8 ANqWR%T]t?s6S(t.yuzw,eb`WV(^Q*DYnuQuXUvWy1 kNV*)?I'lf}(+2_{^i|Dd$wIZ)E5AR a5SysmZ5o=~atjtlINH9[fy:y It doesn't matter that it's been 30 years. The way Owings sees it, there was his life before the match and his life after: before 1970 he was a nobody hungry to make a name for himself in the sport, though also an introvert completely unequipped for the attention that would come. Smith, a man not quite 5 feet tall, ran over and bear-hugged and hoisted his champion. It had a tremendous impact on my entire coaching career.". In his high school career, undefeated. Michael Jordan is the Dan Gable of basketball. "The American people like the underdog, but at the same time there was sadness. He holed himself up in his room, he didn't talk to anyone, he didn't even return his parents' phone calls. * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). Graduated from Canby High School where he was a two-time OSAA champion. Canby Coach Larry Wright encouraged Owings to continue his wrestling at the highest level. How about a nod to the wrestler Owings so very wisely avoided. He walked over and saw his teammate Chuck Jean there. Pac-8 Champion and three-time NCAA finalist. He was known to wake up in the middle of night, just to do push-ups while his opponents slept. After college, Owings competed on the senior level circuit before retiring. Is that so? Earned bachelor's degree and master's degree in education from the University of Washington. With a score of 8-6, Gable again worked for back points before a scramble ensued. From 1976 to 1997, Gable was the head wrestling coach at the University of Iowa, where his teams compiled a dual meet record of 355215 and won 15 NCAA Division I titles. After a slow start, "He had won more than 200 matches in high school.". Stillwater, OK 74075 The house lights were dimmed, with only the overhead lights framing the mat in the center of McGaw Hall. Iowa State had won the national team championship, but Gable's loss dominated the headlines. Check out the highlights. That has never bothered Owings. Just a thought. Gable says that the loss was like a death in the family. It just about killed my parents, he says. It is annually the most viewed element in the Hall. He went on to the sensational international and Olympic career that has already been described. ", DAN GABLE: The complete history of one of the greatest college wrestlers. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. "Owings was very squirmy and hard to control.. He could't believe he was the one affected by his opponent's reputation. I have to agree with the other poster - Vincenzo Joseph over Imar has to be in the top 3. In that way, he and I were similar. He noticed that the UW wrestler was making "all kinds of mistakes but still ended up pinning his opponent." Iowa Wrestling Lands Commitments From Spencer Lee and Gavin Teasdale, TONY RAMOS TO LEAVE IOWA FOR NORTH CAROLINA, FORMER IOWA HEAVYWEIGHT TERRANCE JEAN-JACQUES SIGNS DEAL WITH WWE, TONY RAMOS FEELS "BETRAYED" BY IOWA, LEAVING IOWA PROGRAM, DAN DENNIS BEATS TONY RAMOS, WILL WRESTLE IN THE OLYMPICS IN RIO. A household name, and a hero to kids all over the country. As lopsided as that score was, it was the only point allowed by Gable during the trials or the Olympics. It was close throughout the three-period match, and the constant crowd noise was deafening. His conditioning was so legendary that the Russians whom he would face in an international career that included two world championships and a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich nicknamed him The Machine.. If so, he must have had to have gone 142 for his qualifying tournament before the Big Dance, right? A natural introvert, he struggled for decades against his reputation as The Man Who Beat Dan Gable. He didnt want his whole life to be defined by something that transpired over a period of nine minutes when he was a teenager. National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum, Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award, Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award. He would sprint from class to class on the campus at Ames, clutching course books and wearing weights tied to his ankles. Owings had won. Iowa State Coach Harold Nichols protested. With none of his family members in attendance that day, Owings remembers staggering around, trying to process what just happened. The man who beat Dan Gable.. If we would have tied and there was an overtime, I dont think I would have won, he says. LARRY OWINGS AND DANGABLE, Kris Murray and Tony Perkins lead Iowa to its best road win of the year, The Iowa Hawkeyes and the Big Ten Tournament. Gable was heartbroken. Owings ran three miles every morning around the Husky Stadium track, averaging six minutes a mile and sprinting the final quarter-mile in less than a minute. Two years ago, Gable got the call that Dianes killer had died in prison. "I thought it would be a contest. Just sitting here, talking about it it hurts. A few old black-and-white wrestling photos turn up in the image results, but mostly he finds himself staring at photos of strange faces. Gable made numerous attempts to explain the only defeat he would ever know. Jean made it out just in time; he won the match, and the national title. Phone: (319) 233-0745 Earned bachelor's degree and master's degree in education from the University of Washington. BRENNAN Stacy. He clings to it like a drowning man trying to stay afloat, because he understands what once had defeated him also made him a champion. We got up, and he offered me his hand and we shook. I know a good way for a sportsman to get rid of it. He coached 152 All-Americans, 45 national champions, 106 Big Ten champions, and 12 Olympians, including eight medalists. A Seattle Times article, Whatever happened to Larry Owings? comes up, as well as the Wikipedia entry for Dan Gable. Call 1-800-GAMBLER. I really enjoyed the article - thanks. In his senior season at Iowa State, Gable lost the only match of his amateur wrestling career to Larry Owingsa sophomore from the University of Washingtonin the NCAA 142-pound national championship. Dan Gable will tell you that eighty percent of wrestling matches are decided before the first whistle blows. It was a decision the Chicago Daily News writer Bill Jauss said made him either the bravest or dumbest guy in amateur wrestling. Gables reputation was such that guys generally piled on weight to avoid facing him on the mat; not the other way around. It was my moms worst fear. Feeling stripped of his powers after his loss, Gable was finding out what it was like to be human. Later, over beers at a local bar, when hes asked how often he thinks about his loss in the 1970 NCAA wrestling national championships, he will say, without a beat, Everyday. His wife, Kathy, will turn to him and look as if she suddenly doesnt know this man shes been married to for 40 years. I kind of wish he had gotten me with his best move.". It was one of the most emotional scenes I can ever remember.". He was intrigued -- Dan and Kathy went to Washington to have a series of meetings at the White House. However, Owings turned things around, becoming a two-time Oregon high school state champ, winning the 136-pound crown as a junior in 1967, and the 138 title in 1968 (pinning all his opponents at state). Now, it was like a burden was lifted. The OFFICIAL Facebook site of Western Australia's premiere Pro Wrestling organisation - EPW Perth. Jean was due to wrestle in the nights final match, and the PA announcer called for the match wrestlers: Jean had three minutes to get to the mat. "It was an indication," Gerald said, "that Gable was taking him real seriously. This is where Gable thought he had the match won. Was I annoyed? says Owings. After returning to Ames the next day, the first thing he did was ask teammates to wrestle him. It meant that when they met, it would be for the national title - Gable's final college match. As did one summer before high school, where he went to work for a Norwegian dairy farmer who had him hauling hay bales from dawn to dusk. By the time the two wrestlers took center stage of the arena for the fourth match of the evening-- Gable in a sleeveless cardinal-and-gold jersey and separate trunks; Owings in a one-piece purple piece with U of W monogrammed on the chest -- it was so loud, with a standing room crowd of nearly 9,000 squeezed into McGaw Hall, that the wrestlers couldnt hear the ref, Pascal Perri, unless they leaned in close. I got bumped down a seed at Nationals in 72 because the winner of the regionals 1 weight above me dropped down for Nationals. Our Mission: To honor the sport of wrestling by preserving its history, recognizing extraordinary individual achievements, and inspiring future generations, 405 West Hall of Fame Avenue 4 0 obj 0@f@b'>dnk;k2 E\ 5EFsmdm9_-3uyKfmp}Mv$F+\ 8PBMvZ4li-miLbccx*kj3 j CL# ^3>=@aW6F(qmDCL4*@u|hw-fTy-[pal{5@V 08Nl+FNt@@*eF$~1H*UXj1(B`xfLE!HsZm!| "(But) I got greedy.". Finally, he says, Theres a barrier between us that Im not sure needs to ever go away., 2023 ABG-SI LLC. Perri had given Owings two points for the takedown and two for a near-fall, as Gable's shoulders were briefly exposed to the mat. An inspiring legend in his home state and as well as the country due to his work ethic and drive to succeed in wrestling, Gable won national titles in 1968 and 1969 at 130 and 137 pounds. Owings was a sophomore at the University of Washington, who had dropped two weight classes (from 158 to 142) just to get a shot at the legend. Such was the message from Saturdays thrill ride with its sharp turns and breathtaking drops. Graduated from Canby High School where he was a two-time OSAA champion. They are not your average antique shop. Larry Owings's wrestling career was different from Gable's. Growing up with 5 wrestling champs, Larry was told by his siblings he would never be a wrestler even being nicknamed "Porky." Owing wanted to prove them wrong. And then I got greedy. Gable had pinned an astonishing 70 percent of his opponents entering the final, and now he determined to pin Owings to close out his collegiate career. Many who were there that day use the same words to describe the strange aftermath: it was like a bomb went off. Olympic Champion. Mike Gerald, who now lives in Austin, Texas, wrote a book on Owings when the two became acquainted in Oregon. Then lost in '70 @ 142 when Owings beat him 13-11. It was quite the pedigree, but no one expected the same from Larry, for one simple reason. The message was that his talent at wrestling, and his improbable victory over Dan Gable, had happened for a reason. It would take me years to realize this, but I wouldnt have become great wrestler and a great coach -- a legend in the sport -- without that match. After he left Iowa State, Gable went on to win the 1971 Pan Am games and world championships, he took gold at the Munich Olympics in 1972 without allowing surrendering a single point; he went on to a 21-year coaching career at the University of Iowa, where he led the Hawkeyes to an unprecedented 15 national titles. Then, just an hour before the match, ABC-TV convinced him to do a short promo advancing the telecast, which would be shown a week later, by having him tell the viewer to watch him finish his career 182-0. All Rights Reserved. 11 ranked men's hoops teams in action tonight, DI indoor T&F championship selections revealed. I wasn't that surprised the night Caldwell beat Metcalf. When I started to embrace that, I started to become happier, I think., The young wrestlers have all heard of Dan Gable. "When I got to the tournament, I still felt fine - that I could win and do everything I thought I could do," Gable said. It was one of the greatest upsets in American sports: an unknown sophomore from the University of Washington slaying the god from Iowa State and one of the most astonishing streaks in sports history. The basement in the Gable home in Iowa City is full of trophies and trinkets and framed photos in glass cases; Dan Gable calls this part of the house the museum, and every museum must be a complete representation of history. Here's what you may have missed. As painful as the experience was, looking back, he believes it may have helped toughen him up. FIRST PERIOD: The legend took the first shot, moving in on Owings right leg before squaring up a then fending off an attack from Owings. He was taking time out to do countless interviews, up until the very moment of his match: ABCs Wide World of Sports requested that he tape a spot for them on the mat just minutes before the final. Wrestling never came up until they went on a date later in their relationship and two strangers walked up to them and asked for Owings autograph. He faced Gable on the mat one more time, at the 1972 Olympic trials in Anoka, Minn. Owings was wrestling best at 136.5 that year, but he struggled to keep his weight under 138. Larry Owings, The Man Who Beat Gable, What happened to Larry Owings? More than any other sport, wrestling is rooted in self-belief and desire: being big, strong, fast and talented can take you only so far; in the end, it is about endurance, stamina, conviction. ALEXANDER Stephen. There is, however, still the open wound from 1970. This was where Owings wanted to be, on the mat in the middle of the action. "I had two minutes more riding time, so I was pretty much in control of the match," Gable said. Don't get caught in the cradle." The fans, said Roderick, "were in shock, as well as excited seeing history. Help us build a sustainable news organization to serve Canby for generations to come! Owings shows up at local wrestling practices and events more, and when people ask him about the Gable match, he no longer tightens up. He had pinned everyone in the 1970s national tournament before this match, and he was considered to be the unquestionable favorite against a wrestler he beat two years prior at the Olympic Trials. He describes Owings as a "Charles Lindbergh persona, quietly confident," who believed he could equal Gable's strength and conditioning. And thats something that still pisses me off , Owings and I, we have an interesting relationship, that I just have never lets just say weve never become close, he says. "The Sophomore From Washington" is a documentary feature about Larry Owings, the University of Washington wrestler who defeated Iowa State's Dan Gable at the 1970 NCAA Wrestling Championships. Theres the verbal stuff, here and there. If you need a little weekend reading, friends, you could do worse -- a lot worse -- thanthis compelling profile by Sports Illustrated's Albert Chen on Dan Gable and Larry Owings, two men whose histories are inextricably intertwined. Unbelievably, Mr. Flasche was my neighbor and customer at my pharmacy when he moved to our tiny, beautiful town of Troy, MT in the early 2000s. Yes. Gable's teams compiled a dual meet record of 355215. I didn't know he passed away in 2013, but that explains the omission of Joseph/Martinez. Dan Gable height is 5 Feet 9 Inches. There were some things I could have done We just thought you were invincible., Anderson was dying of cancer, and as Gable says, It was like he was unloading a lifelong burden., Where are They Now: Former UConn star Doron Sheffer. Imagine my surprise when I read of my neighbor/customer's accomplishments in his obituary after he and his wife's (along with others) deaths in a tragic car accident. Larry took the match to him.". Larry Owings Fall 6:12 Leandro Torres 4-3 Bruce Burnett 11-7 Paul Brodmerkel 6-2 Bob Bergen 15-6 Rob Brown 6-4 Larry Owings Fall 1:36 Leandro Torres 4-3 Bob Bergen 3-2 Larry Owings 17-2 Leandro Torres 4-1 Darrell Keller 16-12 142 Weight Class Larry Owings 5-2 Clay Jester, Massachusetts James Guizzotti, Ashland [7] Doug Moses, Iowa State Bye As Sports Illustrated reported in its coverage of the 1970 NCAA's, "Larry Owings was far more accomplished than most people realized.". Gable began scouting Owings' matches. Instead, he thought of it as a reason to train with even more determination: "The more you can settle into focusing on what you have and what you would like to do and where you want to go a positive point of view the quicker things turn around and positive things start to happen. In the days afterward he shut himself from the world. The next match featured Grant, like Gable a defending Champion from 1969. It made him want another crack at the legend, but he wouldnt have a chance until that final round of the 1970 national championship at the Northwestern University fieldhouse in Evanston, Ill. My nickname was Porky. Everyone called me that, even my teachers at school. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. With focus and determination Grant won 6-1in the match after Owings-Gable. After his Olympic title, he coached the Iowa Hawkeyes to 21 consecutive Big Ten titles and 15 national championships in his 21 years as head coach, going 355-21-5. Results Placement Matches (16 Man) Team. ", Owings and Gable, forever linked, met in the NCAA final for the 142-pound weight class. But Owings honestly believed he could beat him. Larry Owings. Obviously a very soft spoken, humble man. <> That's what I thought. He was as relentless and as conditioned as Gable was. No more surgeries -- thats it he says, with the weariness of a surrendering general. The only defeat that Gable suffered during his. THIRD PERIOD: Both wrestlers anxiously waited for the whistle to start the third, leading the referee to caution the men. He has softened in his old age -- thats what nine grandchildren will do to you -- and lately he has been more reflective; a stack of papers on the desk is the memoir hes working on with a writer. Most have never heard of Larry Owings. Wrestling fans attending the 2018 NCAA Wrestling Championships in Cleveland, Ohio, March 15-17, will have the chance to relive arguably the most talked about wrestling match of all time the Larry Owings' upset of undefeated two-time NCAA champion Dan Gable in the 1970 NCAA finals. Owings got four points for the move -- two for the takedown, two for exposing Gables shoulders to the mat. The YouTube video cuts to black. "But I was distracted by Larry Owings. "I was almost embarrassed to have won," he says. Then, one night about 10 years ago, he had an epiphany, which he believes came from God. In 1991, Gable was awarded with the Art Abrams Lifetime Achievement Award by Cauliflower Alley Club. Gable won @ 130 in '68. It's never going to leave, that painful image of defeat. It's hard to win a third NCAA title. The match at Northwestern had its impact on both wrestlers. Owings told UW Coach Jim Smith that he was aiming directly at the legend. A few years ago, the Republican Party recruited Gable to run for governor of Iowa. National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum, Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award, Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award. Id never experienced that before, says Gable. The result, though unexpected, put the crowd of 8,500 on its feet throughout the match and gave them [the athletes] a shattering ovation when it ended, per the New York Times. Gable never lost before he faced Owings in that match, nor after it. He prefers to show them, firsthand. Indeed, from a family of state champion wrestlers, Larry wound up as the best of the bunch, winning the 136-pound crown in 1967 and 141 in 1968. NCAA Indivdual Champions. Larry Owings - Washington (1969 - 1972) 1-time NCAA Champion High School: Canby, Oregon National Wrestling Hall of Fame. You can find youth folkstyle wrestling tournaments as well as Freestyle and Greco-Roman events. The regular season winds downs on the final Sunday before conference tournaments. Washington's Larry Owings knocked off Iowa State's Dan Gable for the 1970 NCAA championship at 142 pounds. Owings neighbor and close friend of two decades showed up to a tournament a few years ago and saw Owings in the stands wearing a shiny purple Washington jacket. Highlights of his career include gold medals at the 1971 Tbilisi Tournament, the 1971 world championships, and the 1972 Olympic Games. This was Owings' opportunity, the fateful moment when his never-used leg sweep caught Gable by surprise. Caldwell was always dangerous and capable of beating anyone anytime. He has one VHS cassette of the broadcast but the tape is the only copy of the match hes ever owned, so worn that hes afraid that if he runs it in the VCR one more time the tape will be ruined forever. But he was right. Earned bachelor's degree and master's degree in education from the University of Washington. Really? Im not going out there, Jean said. Leading 7-2, Owings continued to ride Gable before Gable notched a reversal and put himself back on track with a 7-4 score. Gable said when Owings grabbed his leg "it was kind of like a slow-motion fall. Gable is 65 now, still works out every day on the elliptical and lifting his old high school weights, but lately hes been feeling his body crumbling; he walks with a limp, the result of eight knee surgeries and four hip replacements. He said he "coached some wrestling ". In his international career, undefeated. After losing 20 pounds and growing several inches, nobody believed he couldn't be a wrestler anymore. But he squeaked out an early lead and manage to barely hang onto it through a close, hard-fought, furious match that exhausted both men. "People are still talking about it," said Ron Good, editor of the Amateur Wrestling News. Owings watches the video as Perri lifts his arm and Gable staggers away. 6LkY/XL6dU1unSo^lR;frWn*"jlj,GW{jEvk\mF4?QxIgT ,z-&T($!a-!68xk It still stands as one of the greatest upsets in sports history. in the state of Iowa really going to lose it right now? I assume how hard it could be to train when you're given a lot of essays and homework to do. After retiring as the virtually undisputed greatest wrestler in the history of the sport, he decided to go ahead and become its greatest coach. He became an assistant wrestling coach at Woodburn High School, and today strives to serve as a positive role model and mentor to local youth. Odds & lines subject to change. Both wrestlers advanced through the tournament by pinning each of their opponents. 64-0. Energy, aggression, speed and endurance. Only one man who ever lived can say he beat Dan Gable, and that man is 1968 Canby Union High School grad Larry Owings. So, yeah,go read the article. Gable says that the loss was "like a death in the family." When his teammates passed him in the tunnels they never expected a hello. The way I see it, he says, Im the coach of the sport.. He tried an arm-bar move, coming over Owings' shoulder in an attempt to lock him up and take him down. Owings will forever be in the history books because of this match, and the lesson from this moment is that anything can happen in the NCAA finals. In a corner of the room theres a photo of Gable on the podium after the Owings match, a close black and white shot of his face with tears in his eyes. Given that Gable -- by his own admission in the piece -- still isn't truly over that loss and that it still lights a fire in him well, I'm gonna say that that loss was perhaps the best thing that ever could have happened to Gable -- and, by extension, Iowa wrestling. He went in for Gables leg and picked up a clutch third-period takedown, almost catching the Cyclone off guard as time ticked down. 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