INDUCTEES

2008 inductee's will be Chet Yorton, Chuck Buser and Paul Jacobson. Induction ceremony to take place at the April 5th Natural Bodybuilding Association Classic in the Philadelphia, PA area.

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CHET YORTON

Chester Marian Yorton was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin on June 1, 1939. He began competing in 1959. He first became aware of steroids in 1964 when he was at a beach and ran into a friend who gave him a box containing 100 vials of Nilavar (oxandrolone). Yorton contemplated using them, but checked with a doctor he was seeing at the time who told him to forget it… that the stuff was nothing but trouble. The doctor told Yorton about side effects that could result like acne, gynecomastia (formation of breasts), impotence, hair loss, headaches, increased risk of heart disease, stunted growth if used at too early of an age, kidney problems, liver problems and high blood pressure. Yorton started speaking out against steroid use immediately afterwards.

Yorton won the IFBB Mr. America and NABBA Mr. Universe titles in 1966. In 1975 he claimed the NABBA Pro Mr. Universe Tall class title.

Yorton organized the first natural bodybuilding federation in 1977, the Natural Bodybuilder’s Association (NBA), and conducted the first-ever drug tested bodybuilding competition, the NBA Natural Mr. America, on March 4-5, 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Yorton, along with Mike Dayton, launched Natural Bodybuilding magazine in October 1981.

Yorton’s Partial Contest History
1960 AAU Mr. Milwaukee, 1st Overall
1960 AAU Mr. Wisconsin, 1st Overall
1960 AAU Mr. Michigan, 1st Overall
1961 AAU Mr. Great Lakes, 1st Overall
1963 AAU Mr. San Pedro, 1st Overall
1963 AAU Mr. Los Angeles, 1st Overall
1964 AAU Mr. Los Angeles, 1st Overall
1964 AAU Mr. Pacific Coast, 1st Overall
1966 IFBB Mr. America, 1st Overall
1966 NABBA Mr. Universe, 1st Overall
1975 NABBA Pro Mr. Universe, 1st in Tall Class
 

CHUCK BUSER

Charles (Chuck) G. Buser was born in 1951 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He began weightlifting around 1966 and started competing in 1970. He withdrew from competition for a number of years after 1974 due to his frustration over the amount of drug use that was going on in bodybuilding. He returned in 1979 after the emergence of the natural movement.

Buser was active in the formation of the American Natural Bodybuilding Conference (ANBC), served as its Chief Judge, developed its original judging system, and was a member of its advisory council. He contributed to the ANBC publication (Natural Bodybuilder/ANBC Journal of Natural Bodybuilding) as well as Natural Bodybuilding magazine.

Injuries kept Buser out of competition after 1983 until his return in 1989. His last competition was in 1990.

Contest History
1970 AAU Junior Mr. America, 21st
1970 AAU Mr. Middle Atlantic, Junior 2nd, Open 5th
1970 AAU Teen Mr. America, 4th
1972 AAU Mr. East Coast, 5th
1972 AAU Mr. Pennsylvania, 1st Overall
1974 AAU Mr. World, Medium, did not place
1979 NBA Natural Mr. Las Vegas, 1st Overall
1980 NBA Natural Mr. America, 1st Overall
1980 NBA Natural Mr. Eastern America, 1st Overall
1981 AAU Mr. USA, Middleweight, 3rd
1982 NPC Nationals, Middleweight, 12th
1982 NBA Natural Universe, 1st Overall
1983 AAU Junior Mr. USA, Medium, 2nd
1989 ANBC U.S. Natural, Masters Short, 1st
1990 ANBC U.S. Natural, 1st Overall Masters
 

PAUL E. JACOBSON

Paul Eagol Jacobson was born November 27, 1941. In 1979 he became a member of gym in his hometown of Huntington, N.Y. He soon discovered he had an eye for bodybuilding and got into judging competitions. When he realized how heavily steroid use had become in bodybuilding he became upset and angry. He felt misled by promise of “health” associated with the sport.

In 1982 Jacobson found out about two natural bodybuilding sanctioning bodies: the Natural Bodybuilder’s Association (NBA) that was operating in Pennsylvania and the Natural Body Builders of America (NBBA) that was operating in New York. Jacobson promoted his first natural contest in 1983 on Long Island in New York. He formed the American Natural Bodybuilding Conference (ANBC) in 1984, the year following the demise of both the NBA and NBBA. Under his leadership the ANBC grew from having three shows a year in two states to having 22 shows a year in 10 states by 1989.

Jacobson published Natural Bodybuilder/ANBC Journal of Natural Bodybuilding from 1985 – 1989. The publications promoted future events, documented the organization’s activities, printed contest coverage of ANBC events, featured competitors, and published informative articles pertaining to natural bodybuilding.