President Obama visits OTC
President Barack Obama shakes hands with past World champion and USA Wrestling Director of Program Development Les Gutches in the U.S. Olympic Training Center wrestling room on Aug. 9 in Colorado Springs. Obama stopped by practice and met with wrestlers during his visit. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.
NCAA wrestling champion Curley Culp named 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame Senior nominee
CANTON, OHIO – Defensive tackle Curley Culp was named by the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Seniors Committee as a finalist for election into the Hall of Fame with the Class of 2013. Culp will join 15 yet to be named modern-era candidates on the list of finalists from which the Class of 2013 will be selected. The Hall of Fame selection meeting will be held on Feb. 2, 2013, the day before Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, La. The wrestling community has a special interest in Culp, who was a two-sport star at Arizona State. He was a 1967 NCAA wrestling champion at heavyweight for the Sun Devils, the first NCAA wrestling champion in Arizona State history. He received the Gorriarian Award for the Most Pins at the 1967 NCAA Championships. Culp was also a two-time Arizona state wrestling champion
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from Yuma High School (1962, 1963). He is a charter member of the Arizona State Hall of Fame.
Culp was selected in the second round of the 1968 draft by the Denver Broncos, but was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. He spent the six seasons with the Chiefs where he was an integral member of the team’s Super Bowl IV championship team.
He continued his dominating play after a blockbuster trade landed him with the Houston Oilers in 1974. He was named the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year in 1975.
He earned six Pro Bowl selections, and was first- or second-
team All-Pro five times and was named All-AFC his first three full seasons with the Oilers. He finished his NFL career with the Detroit Lions.
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