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Ben Peterson (Wrestler)
Benjamin Lee Peterson (born June 27, 1950) is a retired American freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal, respectively. As a college wrestler, Peterson was a two-time NCAA champion at Iowa State. He founded the "Camp of Champs," which brought in Olympic wrestlers to train with high schoolers. Peterson also coached wrestling at Maranatha Baptist University for 28 years. Early life Peterson was born in Barron County, Wisconsin but grew up on a dairy farm in nearby Comstock. While attending Cumberland High School, Peterson competed in both football and wrestling. As a senior, he finished runner-up at the state wrestling tournament. College career Peterson continued his wrestling career at Iowa State University where he competed in the 190 pound weight class and studied architecture. Peterson went on to capture three Big Eight championships and back-to-back NCAA titles in 1971 and 1972. Peterson would later be one of the ...
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Barron County, Wisconsin
Barron County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,711. Its county seat is Barron. The county was created in 1859 and organized in 1874. History The county was created in 1859 as Dallas County (named after Vice President George M. Dallas), with the county seat located at Barron. It was renamed Barron County on March 4, 1869. The county's name honors Wisconsin lawyer and politician Henry D. Barron, who served as circuit judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. Barron County was organized in 1874. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a community of Russian immigrants moved to Barron County. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (3.0%) is water. Adjacent counties * Washburn County – north * Sawyer County – northeast * Rusk County – east * Chippewa County – southeast * Dunn County – south * St. Croix County – southwest * Polk County ...
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Wrestling At The 1975 Pan American Games
This page shows the results of the Men's Wrestling Competition at the 1975 Pan American Games, held from October 12 to October 26, 1971, in Mexico City, Mexico. Men's Freestyle Freestyle (– 48 kg) Freestyle (– 52 kg) Freestyle (– 57 kg) Freestyle (– 62 kg) Freestyle (– 68 kg) Freestyle (– 74 kg) Freestyle (– 82 kg) Freestyle (– 90 kg) Freestyle (– 100 kg) Freestyle (+ 100 kg) Men's Greco-Roman Greco-Roman (– 48 kg) Greco-Roman (– 52 kg) Greco-Roman (– 57 kg) Greco-Roman (– 62 kg) Greco-Roman (– 68 kg) Greco-Roman (– 74 kg) Greco-Roman (– 82 kg) Greco-Roman (– 90 kg) Greco-Roman (– 100 kg) Greco-Roman (+ 100 kg) Medal table See also *Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics References Sports 123 {{DEFAULTSORT:Wrestling At The 1975 Pan American Games Events at the 1975 Pan American Games P 1975 It was also declared the ''Int ...
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Iowa State Cyclones Hall Of Fame
The Iowa State Cyclones Hall of Fame is a hall of fame that recognizes former student-athletes that achieved great success during their time at Iowa State University over the past 120 years. History The Hall of Fame was first created in 1997. Since the program's inception in 1997, there have been 161 individuals inducted. Induction process Former student-athletes can be nominated by either athletic department employees or members of the Letterwinners Club. A nominated committee is selected by the Letterwinners Club executive committee who then selects members for induction. A varying number of members are inducted each year. Each fall during Letterwinners Weekend, the Iowa State Letterwinners Club hosts the Iowa State University Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Inductees are honored at a Friday night banquet at which each honoree is presented a medallion and given the opportunity to speak and they are then honored at halftime of the football game the following d ...
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Big Eight Conference
The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored American football, football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Nebraska, and Washington University in St. Louis. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an original member of the MVIAA, while maintaining joint membership in the Western Conference (now the Big Ten Conference). The conference's membership at its dissolution consisted of the University of Nebraska, Iowa State University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, the University of Missouri, the University of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State University. The Big Eight's headquarters were located in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1994, a ...
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Iowa State University
Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the nation's first designated land-grant institutions when the Iowa Legislature accepted the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, Morrill Act on September 11, 1862. On July 4, 1959, the college was officially renamed Iowa State University of Science and Technology. Iowa State is the second largest university in Iowa by total enrollment. The university's academic offerings are administered through eight colleges, including the Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, the Iowa State University College of Engineering, ...
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Wrestling
Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves different grappling-type techniques, such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins, and other grappling holds. Many different wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat sports, and military systems. Wrestling comes in different forms, the most popular being professional wrestling, which is a form of athletic theatre. Other legitimateThe term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to predetermined professional wrestling, which is very different from the legitimate (or real-life) wrestling combat predominantly detailed in this article. competitive forms include Greco-Roman, freestyle, judo, sambo, folkstyle, catch, shoot, luta livre, submission, sumo, pehl ...
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American Football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at each end. The offense (sports), offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped Ball (gridiron football), football, attempts to advance down the field by Rush (gridiron football), running with the ball or Forward pass#Gridiron football, throwing it, while the Defense (sports), defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance the ball at least ten yard, yards in four Down (gridiron football), downs or plays; if they fail, they turnover on downs, turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the Glossary of American football#drive, drive. Points are scored primarily b ...
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Cumberland High School (Wisconsin)
Cumberland School District is a school district that serves students from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. This district is located in Cumberland, Wisconsin, which is located at the intersection of US Hwy 63 and Wisconsin Hwy 48 just 50 miles north of Interstate 94. The approximate enrollment is about 1,100 students. Cumberland is nicknamed the “Island City“ and it is located in Wisconsin's “Great Northwest.” Schools Cumberland Elementary School Cumberland Elementary School is for kindergarten to fourth grade students. The school's principal is Jim Richie. There are about 397 students who attend Cumberland Elementary. For every teacher there is about fifteen students. The policy at the school is to always put the child first. Cumberland Middle School Cumberland Middle School is for fifth through eighth grade students. The school's principal is Colin Green. There are about 247 students who attend Cumberland Middle School. When teaching the curriculum, it is enhanced wit ...
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Comstock, Wisconsin
Comstock is an unincorporated community located in Barron County, Wisconsin, United States. Comstock is located on U.S. Route 63 southwest of Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish ..., in the town of Crystal Lake. Comstock has the ZIP code 54826, but no longer has a post office of its own. History A post office called Comstock has been in operation since 1881. The community was named for H. S. Comstock, a Wisconsin judge. References Unincorporated communities in Barron County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{BarronCountyWI-geo-stub ...
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Maranatha Baptist University
Maranatha Baptist University is a private Baptist university in Watertown, Wisconsin. History The institution was founded in 1968 as Maranatha Baptist Bible College by B. Myron Cedarholm. The college was named for the Aramaic phrase '' Maranatha'', which means "Lo, He cometh" (I Corinthians 16:22). Cedarholm helped raise $150,000 to purchase the Watertown campus, now valued at $18 million, from the Brothers of the Holy Cross located in South Bend, Indiana. Maranatha Baptist Bible College opened just three months later, on September 10, 1968, with 173 students and 27 faculty members. Maranatha awarded degrees to the first graduating class, 13 students, on May 31, 1969. Maranatha was chartered by the State of Wisconsin in 1968 and accredited by the Higher Learning Commission in 1993. In 2013, the institution changed its name to Maranatha Baptist University. The current president is David Anderson, who began his duties during the summer of 2023. Since 2021, Matthew Davis has f ...
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Iowa State Cyclones
The Iowa State Cyclones are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Iowa State University, located in Ames. The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference and competes in NCAA Division I, fielding 16 varsity teams (6 men's and 10 women's teams) in 12 sports. The "Cyclones" name dates back to 1895. That year, Iowa suffered an unusually high number of devastating cyclones (as tornadoes were called at the time). In September, the football team from what was then Iowa Agricultural College traveled to Northwestern University and defeated that team by a score of 36–0. The next day, the ''Chicago Tribune''s headline read "Struck by a Cyclone: It Comes from Iowa and Devastates Evanston Town." The article began, "Northwestern might as well have tried to play football with an Iowa cyclone as with the Iowa team it met yesterday." The nickname stuck. Sports sponsored Iowa State's athletic director is Jamie Pollard. Since his arrival in 2005, Pollard has replaced head ...
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NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. It also organizes the Athletics (physical culture), athletic programs of colleges and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports. The headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Until the 1956–57 academic year, the NCAA was a single division for all schools. That year, the NCAA split into the NCAA University Division, University Division and the NCAA College Division, College Division. In August 1973, the current three-division system of NCAA Division I, Division I, NCAA Division II, Division II, and NCAA Division III, Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special convention. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer athletic scholarships to students. Divi ...
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