Penn State Wrestling Great John Fritz on Penn State Wrestling History and David Taylor’s Move West
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John Fritz is is one of the classiest guys to ever step on a wrestling mat. I watched him dismantle Jimmy Carr at a summer Great Lakes Open years ago, just another day at work. Bernie is a pretty good guy too, never got to see him wrestle but great to talk to.
Yes, I really love Coach Fritz! Great wrestler, coach and man.
When he was coaching at F&M I was a local high school wrestler. On snow days when our school and wrestling room were shut down I'd head into the Diplomats wrestling room and he would let me work out with them (and get my a$$ kicked
). Really helped me manage my weight cut. I now wonder if that was an NCAA violation, not that I was serious recruit. Coach Stan Zeamer helped me out along the way too.
Got me thinking, I haven't been to an F&M dual in years....I should support them and catch a match or two. They aren't a force but it's pretty amazing that a small school like this is D1 and competes in the EIWA.
When he was coaching at F&M I was a local high school wrestler. On snow days when our school and wrestling room were shut down I'd head into the Diplomats wrestling room and he would let me work out with them (and get my a$$ kicked
). Really helped me manage my weight cut. I now wonder if that was an NCAA violation, not that I was serious recruit. Coach Stan Zeamer helped me out along the way too.Got me thinking, I haven't been to an F&M dual in years....I should support them and catch a match or two. They aren't a force but it's pretty amazing that a small school like this is D1 and competes in the EIWA.
In the early 80's, most of my youth wrestling team went to Fritz's camp at Bloomsburg. My kids all loved him - except for one boy who got homesick and had to come home on a Wednesday.Yes, I really love Coach Fritz! Great wrestler, coach and man.
When he was coaching at F&M I was a local high school wrestler. On snow days when our school and wrestling room were shut down I'd head into the Diplomats wrestling room and he would let me work out with them (and get my a$$ kicked
Got me thinking, I haven't been to an F&M dual in years....I should support them and catch a match or two. They aren't a force but it's pretty amazing that a small school like this is D1 and competes in the EIWA.
My little brother wrestled Stan Zeamer in the Regional finals.
F&M was one of my college team's regular opponents. You sound like you know your way around F&M. Is it true that they used to heat their swimming pool with an obsolete 2nd generation computer they kept in the room beneath it? That's the story I heard back in the day.
It was a 1st generation computer. 1st Gen technology used vacuum tubes. Those suckers were huge. They had to be water-cooled.
If F&M was given one, it certainly could have heated the pool.
And when I was at Gburg, I think I spent more time in the steam room than on the mat.
If F&M was given one, it certainly could have heated the pool.
And when I was at Gburg, I think I spent more time in the steam room than on the mat.
I worked at a company that had our data center in the basement (5 floors + basement) and the heat from the system was used to heat the entire building in the winter. When they moved the data center to NJ, they had to fix the furnace for the winter.
Fritzie was there when I was a student at PSU. Back in the day wrestling was one of those sports that was free to attend. I remember running on the indoor track at Rec Hall and then filtering down into the seats to watch Koll’s teams. Any match Fritzie was always entertaining.
