MAC The wrestling dynasty of MAC Coach Cyril Mitchell spanned more than 30 years- from Virgil Cavagnaro, 1939 national heavyweight champion, to Rick Sanders.
Herb Haberlach, 1942 state high school champion, first wrestled for MAC in 19SO, and won numerous PCI, Oregon AAU, Far West and Northwest AAU heavyweight championships in the early '50s. An alternate for the '52 Olympic team, Haberlach took part in Helsinki's Olympic ceremonies but did not compete. Haberlach shared in an especially sweet victory, MAC's first national AAU team title, in 1953. He and Lee Allen, Wilbur
Bauer and Paul Buhler did not win individual firsts, but three second-place wins were enough for the title. Haberlach later won two national masters championships in the late '70s. Lee Allen, who began wrestling for MAC in 1952, won the national Greco-Roman title in 1954, but a broken leg kept him from defending in 1955. Winning the 1956 Far Western and Pacific Northwest titles led to that year's Olympics at Melbourne and the 1960 Olympics at Rome. Coach Cyril Mitchell, top center, accepts the trophy for the 1953 National AAU Wrestling Team Championship from an official. Ernie Biggs is at top right. In front, Lee Allen, Wilbur Bauer, Paul Buhler and Herb Haberlach .
MAC pinned down a second national team title at San Francisco in 1965, with a freestyle team including
Rick Sanders, Garry Stensland and Gerald Konine. The
next year, MAC's team took third place in the world championships. Garry Stensland, nine-time national heavyweight champion, won three national Greco-Roman titles, and was first in Pacific Northwest Olympic Trials in 1960, '64 and '68. In 1968 he was picked for Olympic training camp but did not make the team. Rick Sanders, from Lincoln High SchooL was one of Oregon's
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