Raymond G. Clapp

(1875-1967) lived in Lincoln. Physician, educator, coach, athlete, known for leading the development of early-day collegiate rules and collegiate tournaments in the field of wrestling, serving as chairman of NCAA wrestling rules committee from 1927 to 1945, he was instrumental also for initiating several sports at the University of Nebraska and for encouraging the role of physical education; during World War I he supervised physical training of U.S. Army inductees, and earlier held the world record for pole vaulting until 1904; inducted as a distinguished member into the amateur National Wrestling Hall of Fame at Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1976. Consult UNL Nebraska Alumnus, February 1934, pp. 3-4, 29 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 53 (1971) 430-431 and Mike Chapman, Encyclopedia of American Wrestling (Leisure Press, 1990) 483-484.

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