Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight
# Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight

The freestyle featherweight was one of five freestyle wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Like all other wrestling events, it was open only to men. The featherweight was the second-lightest class, allowing wrestlers of up to 60.3 kilograms (133 lb). Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.

11 British athletes and 1 American participated.

## Competition format

The event was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match between the semifinal losers. The final and bronze medal match were best two-of-three, while all other rounds were a single bout. Bouts were 15 minutes, unless one wrestler lost by fall (two shoulders on the ground at the same time). Other than falls, decisions were made by the judges or, if they did not agree, the referee.

Wrestlers could "take hold how and where they please[d]" except that "hair, flesh, ears, private parts, or clothes may not be seized"; striking, scratching, twisting fingers, butting, and kicking were prohibited. Holds "obtained that the fear of breakage or dislocation of a limb shall induce a wrestler to give the fall" were outlawed, and particularly the double-nelson, hammerlock, strangle, half-strangle, scissors, hang, flying mare with palm uppermost, and the foot twist.

## Results

### Standings

| Place | Wrestler | Nation |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | George Dole | United States of America |
| 2 | James Slim | Great Britain |
| 3 | William McKie | Great Britain |
| 4 | William Tagg | Great Britain |
| 5 | Alfred Goddard | Great Britain |
| 5 | Sidney Peake | Great Britain |
| 5 | James Webster | Great Britain |
| 5 | Joseph White | Great Britain |
| 9 | Walter Adams | Great Britain |
| 9 | Percy Cockings | Great Britain |
| 9 | Risdon Couch | Great Britain |
| 9 | William Jones | Great Britain |

### Bracket

| First Round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| Decision | | |
| George Dole (USA) | | |
| George Dole (USA) | Decision | |
| Percy Cockings (GBR) | Decision | |
| Percy Cockings (GBR) | George Dole (USA) | |
| Fall (2:14) | George Dole (USA) | |
| Fall (2:14) | James Webster (GBR) | |
| James Webster (GBR) | James Webster (GBR) | |
| James Webster (GBR) | | Fall (6:00) |
| Walter Adams (GBR) | | Fall (6:00) |
| Walter Adams (GBR) | | George Dole (USA) |
| Fall (11:56) | | George Dole (USA) |
| Fall (11:56) | | William McKie (GBR) |
| Joseph White (GBR) | | William McKie (GBR) |
| Joseph White (GBR) | Decision | |
| William Jones (GBR) | Decision | |
| William Jones (GBR) | Joseph White (GBR) | |
| | William McKie (GBR) | |
| | | | 2–0 (fall (9:28)/decision) |
| | | | George Dole (USA) |
| Fall (10:48) | | | George Dole (USA) |
| Fall (10:48) | | | James Slim (GBR) |
| Alfred Goddard (GBR) | | | James Slim (GBR) |
| Alfred Goddard (GBR) | Fall (5:00) | | |
| Risdon Couch (GBR) | Fall (5:00) | | |
| Risdon Couch (GBR) | Alfred Goddard (GBR) | | |
| | William Tagg (GBR) | | |
| | | Decision | |
| | | William Tagg (GBR) | |
| | | James Slim (GBR) | Third place |
| | Fall (9:00) | | 1–0 (decision/retired) |
| | James Slim (GBR) | | William McKie (GBR) |
| | Sidney Peake (GBR) | | William Tagg (GBR) |
