caption death_date death_place club birth_place height name sport birth_date image article_title birth_name
allie morrison at the 1928 olympics april 18 , 1966 -lrb- aged 61 -rrb- omaha , nebraska , united states illinois fighting illini marshalltown , iowa , united states 5 5 allie morrison freestyle wrestling june 29 , 1904 allie morrison 1928.jpg allie morrison
 alvin roy morrison
allie morrison

alvin roy `` allie '' morrison -lrb- june 29 , 1904 -- april 18 , 1966 -rrb- 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 .
