Larry Owings Fall 5:19 Bryan McGann 6-3 David McGuire 4-0 Shane Foley 8-5 Mike Riley 9-0 Reid Lamphere 15-11 Larry Owings 13-2 David McGuire 8-4 Mike Riley 2-1 Reid Lamphere 14-12 David McGuire 3-3, 1-0 David McGuire Fall 4:32 130 Weight Class David McGuire 4-2 Len Groom, Northern Colorado [2] Mike Milkovich, Kent State Everette Barnard, Indiana Owings briefly wrestled internationally and retired in 1973 to his home in Oregon. "GABLE FALLS!" screamed the banner headline in the next day's Des Moines Register. USWF Greco-Roman and freestyle champion and Outstanding Wrestler. Larry, what are you doing here? the neighbor said, then looked up and saw the banner that read LARRY OWINGS INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT. They shut down the whole tournament for 15 minutes. Results Placement Matches (16 Man) Team. We got up, and he offered me his hand and we shook. Jean made it out just in time; he won the match, and the national title. Email: [email protected]. At Iowa State, he became an NCAA Division I national runner-up and two-time national champion. 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!| Thats the way Owings prefers it. "It just about killed my parents," he says. That's what I thought. 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. I have to agree with the other poster - Vincenzo Joseph over Imar has to be in the top 3. Lately hes been calling around -- to the University of Washington, to the Wrestling Hall of Fame in Iowa named after the loser of the match, to ABC, which was there to broadcast the event -- to see if anyone can send him a DVD, but no one seems to have one. He wasn't scared and had nothing to lose. The two met in the finals of the 1970 NCAA wrestling championship. Phone: (405) 377-5243 On March 28, 1970, in what remains the most famous college match ever, a Washington sophomore named Larry Owings defeated him, 13-11. In fact, Gable would emerge from the Owings match stronger, more determined. But in the final 30 seconds of a close, intense, exhausting match, Owings slipped underneath Gable's arms for a leg lift or sweep, putting the erstwhile invincible Gable on his back for the winning points. But it will have to wait till next time, on Canby Then. One day his mother finally showed up at his door and when she saw Dan, she slapped him across the face, walked away, and made the one and a half hour drive back to Waterloo. Larry Owings of Washington breaks hold and flips Dan Gable of Iowa State during the final match in the 142-pound class of the NCAA Wrestling. Every sport except boxing and wrestling, she said. Before the match, Gable had recorded a promo for ABC saying, Hi, Im Dan Gable. Coached high school wrestling in Washington (Seattle) and Oregon (Clackamas CC, Oregon City, Molalla, Canby and Woodburn) for over 25 years. "He tired me out more than I thought he would," Gable told Tomashek. Im not going out there, Jean said. Gable was one of the few. His 1970 NCAA finals victory over Dan Gable cemented his place in wrestling history. I really enjoyed the article - thanks. The pair had met two years earlier, at the 1968 Olympic Trials when Owings was a senior at Canby (Ore.) High and Gable was a sophomore at Iowa State. "At that point, once I saw the score and only three seconds left, I knew he couldn't get two points," Owings said. Next, well bring you the story of the Canby cowboy who became the best bronc rider in the country at the age of 23. 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.. Its been 17 years since he coached his last match, but his life still revolves around wrestling and fixing problems within in the sport, both small and big, from the new freshman at the university who needs a kick in the butt to the sports very survival -- last year, after the International Olympic Committee dropped wrestling as one of its core sports in February 2013, Gable made it a personal crusade to have it reinstated. Odds & lines subject to change. There was a time I wished it never happened, he says. 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. Does all that happens without the loss to Owings? Dan Gable has not forgotten about that night in 1970. 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. Gable said no thank you. Email: [email protected], 303 Jefferson St. We went at it tooth and nail.". Gable was in the locker room when he heard the water running in the shower. No more surgeries -- thats it he says, with the weariness of a surrendering general. It's all good. Phone: (319) 233-0745 1971 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships; Tournament information; Sport: College wrestling: Location: Auburn, Alabama: Dates: March 25, 1971-March 27, 1971: Host(s) Auburn University: . Olympic Champion. He growls, What I dont understand, and what still pisses me, off is that how, I did not get up properly for the biggest match of the year. And if he could use them to help somebody else, he should. He also became the greatest coach in U.S. college wrestling, winning 17 NCAA titles, and 21 Big Ten Championships. His teams won 21 Big Ten championships and 15 NCAA Division I titles. _n*RgX`E^FkZoe%Y*poZ)XK+i.8p58Pu?MC%m j(Xq/|V\zl,ebRB9z}#m0/gmUH2.;9gtGix#91Nz2Oe&+"W5G`ota WBuHS{,$)/pxWu c oZ_/:~[ZWn7E8FX:oKAU( It was Gable's first loss of his collegiate wrestl. 405 West Hall of Fame Avenue Stillwater, OK 74075 Phone: (405) 377-5243 Email: [email protected] At Iowa State, he became an NCAA Division I national runner-up and two-time national champion. His gig was always that he was going to out condition people, says Owings. It is annually the most viewed element in the Hall. 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. 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. National Wrestling Hall of Fame. A sophomore had beaten the giant. He noticed that the UW wrestler was making "all kinds of mistakes but still ended up pinning his opponent." Gable won, easily, but Owings scored some points and even put the champ on his back one time. 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. Now hes fighting for it to be reinstated beyond 2020. As painful as the experience was, looking back, he believes it may have helped toughen him up. Im emotional about it. Gable grew up in Waterloo, Iowa. 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. 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. The message was that his talent at wrestling, and his improbable victory over Dan Gable, had happened for a reason. Owings strategy in the match was his strategy in all his others: to wear out the other guy; he was, in short, going to out Gable Gable. After the defeat, Gable won gold medals at the 1971 world championships as well as the 1972 Olympics. He respected his pinning ability.". But the scars from 1970 would never go away, and not just for Gable. Iowa State's Dan Gable had one of the most legendary careers in college wrestling, pinning 76 of his 118 opponents during his three years as a starter for the Cyclones and amassing a nearly flawless record on his way to two NCAA titles. Gable asked Jean as he stood there under the water. 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. Smith would rather have Owings wrestle at 150 pounds. In that way, he and I were similar. Earned bachelor's degree and master's degree in education from the University of Washington. Such was the message from Saturdays thrill ride with its sharp turns and breathtaking drops. Owings has not talked to Gable since 1980, and that was a brief conversation to ask him to consider looking at a wrestler in his district. Really?. Michael Jordan is the Dan Gable of basketball, a sportswriter once said. Gable won @ 130 in '68. 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. "I had two minutes more riding time, so I was pretty much in control of the match," Gable said. Is the hardest S.O.B. Now I read this and learn his win was the greatest upset in wrestling history at the time and still ranks in the top three. His intensity only grew when he became coach at Iowa in 1976; Gable was legendary for going to extreme limits to solve a problem. 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. He was known to wake up in the middle of night, just to do push-ups while his opponents slept. Yes, Dan Gable -- the most famous wrestler and most decorated coach in the history of the sport, the volcanic legend who was so combustible as a coach at Iowa that after losses hed return home and punch holes into his young daughters bedroom doors -- has admitted that he has become more emotional these last few years, someone who finds himself now tearing up at the end of old movies. They made up songs about me and teased me unmercifully.. in the state of Iowa really going to lose it right now? "Where are they Now: Catching up with Dan Gable and Larry Owings," Sports Illustrated (July 11, 2014), This page was last edited on 20 January 2023, at 03:38. Larry took the match to him.". Both wrestlers advanced through the tournament by pinning each of their opponents. "People are still talking about it," said Ron Good, editor of the Amateur Wrestling News. 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 Of the century. And that was before he won gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Jean was due to wrestle in the night's final match, and the PA announcer called for the match wrestlers: Jean had three minutes to get to the mat. I was like, Who would say that?, Where are they now: Catching up with Chamique Holdsclaw, The wrestler was an unknown coming off a 30-1 season at Washington, a reserved 19-year-old who didnt appreciate anyone who suggested that any result on the mat was a foregone conclusion. The move was so fast that Perri stopped the match and walked to the scorers table to ensure that the proper points were awarded. He may have been the only opponent Gable had faced in years who saw him as anything other than invincible. But neither wrestler found the peace that they sought: Gable walked away wondering, How could I have lost to this guy?. He beat Gable in the finals of the 1970 NCAA Tournament, one of the most famous wrestling matches in history. He was Goliath, but David was coming to the mat, ready to live out a dream. He also has a museum named for him in his hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, part of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Now, it was like a burden was lifted. In his first 117 college matches, undefeated, including two national championships. Michael Jordan is the Dan Gable of basketball. No, she says, disbelieving. The words hang in the air. SECOND PERIOD: Gable chose top to start the second period with the goal of looking for a turn against Owings for back points, but, instead, Owings, escapes and takes a shot for another two-point takedown, extending his lead to 6-2. Then lost in '70 @ 142 when Owings beat him 13-11. During the conversation, neither mentioned the match. "But I was distracted by Larry Owings. Anything that I can do to help keep these kids away from the video games, and the drugs, the violence and the gangs, Im going to do it.. Gable calls his loss to Larry Owings of Washington his greatest loss. (I mean, why not, right?). He tried an arm-bar move, coming over Owings' shoulder in an attempt to lock him up and take him down. Larry Owings, Coach/Official, Canby, Oregon. Owings at that moment pulled off a move that hed never done in a match: a leg sweep that caught Gable by surprise and dropped him down to the mat -- as Gable fell, he felt like he was going down in slow motion. Larry Owings Invitational - Wrestling Event - FloWrestling Larry Owings Invitational Larry Owings Invitational on Dec 21, 2013 in Canby, OR. 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. He had won more than 200 matches in high school." This site also has Jiu Jitsu, Beach and Belt tournaments listed. 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