Could robes wrap wrestlers again?
May 05, 2016

 

What do Cael Sanderson, Dan Gable and Dan Hodge have in common?

Before stepping onto the mat, these legendary college wrestling champs -- and thousands of mat stars of the past -- wore robes over their wrestling uniforms.

Nowadays, most college wrestlers wear warmups or sweat suits before and after matches. That has not always been the case. In the early 1900s, wrestlers at a number of schools wore sweaters while on the sidelines. As for robes ... that tradition of wrapping wrestlers in robes goes back decades at a number of colleges and high schools in the past, roughly from the 1930s into the 1960s and early 70s when they were largely replaced by warmups.





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