I was 12 when this happened. People today have no idea what it was like to get information back then. No internet, no espn etc. I would find out the results the following YEAR when my dad would bring home his copy of the NCAA rulebook and I would go theough it front to back because it had college results and also high school champions every year. My brother and I got to see Chris Taylor wrestle at the Naval Academy that year and got pictures with him. Scary! Had the good fortune of my son being coached by Schalles 7 or so years ago in Northern Virginia. Great times
I love Wade Schalles's imagination, balance, guts, and intelligence. I consider him one of the greatest NCAA wrestlers of all time. I wish he was my coach when I started wrestling.
He was my coach personally, and I tell ya the man was just as good of a mentor and a teacher as he was a wrestler himself. His son enrolled in the Naval Academy and that brought him and his Eaglehawk Academy to my area. His passion, kindness, and ability to inspire were always fantastic. The man taught wrestling like it was chess, and knew how to make a steel-tough wrestler howl like an infant in pain without causing any lasting injury. Taking him down was like trying to crush a bar of soap with your foot in the shower, it was the strangest sensation I've ever personally experienced. He demonstrated five spladle variants I remember, one was on a darned high crotch if you can believe it. It was a spladle that worked with the opponents head on the BACK of your kidney rather than the front and he just kinda cartwheeled while falling and it just worked. Nobody else was able to get it though haha he said he was still "working on that one." Man those were excellent times.
@@Zachthesloth Wonderous Wade is a awesome coach. Had him for a clinic at my club years ago. Afterwards, he hung around, ate some hotdogs and told us wrestling war stories about the SOviet Team.
No you don’t! He has bad history coaching . Was told by one college that if he didn’t resign they would drop the program. Wade resigned . But he was a magnificent wrestler ❗️
I don’t know if anyone else caught the one inaccuracy there…but it actually wasn’t Schalles that won the award for most pins in the least amount of time, it was actually John Panning of Minnesota that won the award. Both had 4 pins, but Panning pinned them in less time. Just saying 😉👍🏼
Do you have full footage or footage of the NIU wrestlers from the same ‘72 championship? Been trying to find footage of my grandfather that wrestled named Larry Johnson
I guess you both can be right at the same time. Owings was a very unorthodox and thrill a minute type wrestler. He was a very strong 142 pounder. These were the reasons why he was able to upset Gable, one of the greatest to ever do it. But Milkovich was a VERY defensive type wrestler (those that really know the mechanics of wrestling will see what I’m talking about in the match here). So I think his style ended up frustrating Owings. Had a he been a very offensive and attack type wrestler I think Owings could have taken advantage. So Milkovich wrestled a very smart match that day in my opinion. Hats off to both NCAA champions 👏🏽
I was 12 when this happened. People today have no idea what it was like to get information back then. No internet, no espn etc. I would find out the results the following YEAR when my dad would bring home his copy of the NCAA rulebook and I would go theough it front to back because it had college results and also high school champions every year. My brother and I got to see Chris Taylor wrestle at the Naval Academy that year and got pictures with him. Scary! Had the good fortune of my son being coached by Schalles 7 or so years ago in Northern Virginia. Great times
I hear you!
I remember reading about the Gable/Owings match from a wrestling book I bought. I never imagined being able to see the match.
Crazy skill from schalles, threw that lat drop from nowhere!! Awesome footage thanks!
Imagine being warned for stalling when you have CHRIS TAYLOR on top of you 😂 The man was a beast.
I love Wade Schalles's imagination, balance, guts, and intelligence. I consider him one of the greatest NCAA wrestlers of all time. I wish he was my coach when I started wrestling.
He was my coach personally, and I tell ya the man was just as good of a mentor and a teacher as he was a wrestler himself. His son enrolled in the Naval Academy and that brought him and his Eaglehawk Academy to my area. His passion, kindness, and ability to inspire were always fantastic. The man taught wrestling like it was chess, and knew how to make a steel-tough wrestler howl like an infant in pain without causing any lasting injury. Taking him down was like trying to crush a bar of soap with your foot in the shower, it was the strangest sensation I've ever personally experienced. He demonstrated five spladle variants I remember, one was on a darned high crotch if you can believe it. It was a spladle that worked with the opponents head on the BACK of your kidney rather than the front and he just kinda cartwheeled while falling and it just worked. Nobody else was able to get it though haha he said he was still "working on that one."
Man those were excellent times.
@@Zachthesloth Wonderous Wade is a awesome coach. Had him for a clinic at my club years ago.
Afterwards, he hung around, ate some hotdogs and told us wrestling war stories about the SOviet Team.
No you don’t! He has bad history coaching . Was told by one college that if he didn’t resign they would drop the program. Wade resigned . But he was a magnificent wrestler ❗️
The top tier wrestling has advanced by a lot.
It is crazy. The level of this wrestling, you can find in high school today.
The sport has gchanged so much.
I don’t know if anyone else caught the one inaccuracy there…but it actually wasn’t Schalles that won the award for most pins in the least amount of time, it was actually John Panning of Minnesota that won the award. Both had 4 pins, but Panning pinned them in less time. Just saying 😉👍🏼
RIP Chris Taylor
OK, the audio is clearly added to the video later. The announcer describes what is happening before it has happened.
We’d Schalles, man. No matter what you do, you end up on your back.
Toledo
SIU-Carbondale
Washington
All great programs, that produce some great wrestlers that we no longer have
Any chance that you have any footage from the 1974 NCAA championships? I'd love to see Shorty Hitchcock of Bloomsburg winning his title that year.
Do you have any other footage from older NCAA tourneys?
Do you have full footage or footage of the NIU wrestlers from the same ‘72 championship? Been trying to find footage of my grandfather that wrestled named Larry Johnson
LOL..."Challis" instead of Schalles :D
Larry wrestled too careless
NO, Milkovich was a beast.
I guess you both can be right at the same time. Owings was a very unorthodox and thrill a minute type wrestler. He was a very strong 142 pounder. These were the reasons why he was able to upset Gable, one of the greatest to ever do it. But Milkovich was a VERY defensive type wrestler (those that really know the mechanics of wrestling will see what I’m talking about in the match here). So I think his style ended up frustrating Owings. Had a he been a very offensive and attack type wrestler I think Owings could have taken advantage. So Milkovich wrestled a very smart match that day in my opinion. Hats off to both NCAA champions 👏🏽
Awesome