Iowa State’s first national wrestling champion (1928), winning the 135-pound title after failing to make weight at his qualification weight of 125 pounds
Holding’s title came in Ames at the first-ever NCAA-sanctioned national tournament
First three-time conference champion – Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Conference – in school history (1927-29)
National AAU champion in 1928
First Cyclone wrestling Olympian, competing in the 1928 Games in Amsterdam as a bantamweight
Member of Iowa State’s first conference championship team in 1929