Dale Brand

Dale Brand was a wrestler who made the 1936 US Olympic team but served only as an alternate in bantamweight freestyle, and did not compete. Brand wrestled at Cornell College, where he was the 1937 NCAA champion, although he later earned a graduate degree at Drake University. He spent four years in the military during World War II, serving as a medical corpsman with the 3rd Armored Division.

Brand became a teacher and wrestling coach, leading Clarion High School to 14 conference championships, and developing 23 Iowa individual state champions. Brand was made a member of the Fort Dodge High School Hall of Fame, the Cornell College Sports Hall of Fame, the Iowa Athletic Association Coaches Hall of Fame, and the Iowa High School Athletic Association Wrestling Hall of Fame. He was Iowa high school wrestling coach of the year in 1972 and was awarded the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Lifetime Service to Amateur Wrestling Award.