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Oberl
Lions Trail
Ags, 40-31;
Krufka 2nd
By ROY WILLIAMS
For the first time in the 46-
year history of Penn State
wrestling, the Lions have come
home with two National Col
legiate At h letic Association
wrestling champs—Larry For
nicola, 137-pound Eastern tit
list, and Bill Oberly, crown
bearer of the 1955 heavyweight
honors.
Oberly and Fornicola, along
with Joe Krufka, burly Lion
sophomore who copped five points
for second place in the 177-pound
class, were the men who pushed
the Lions from a seventh-place
slot before the outset of the finals
to a final second place spot with
31 points Saturday night at Cor
nell's Barton Hall. Oklahoma A
and M won its 17th team title
with 40 points to successfully de
fend its 1954 title with two champs
and one runnerup.
Fornicola won the champion
ship with a 6-0 whitewashing of
Michigan's Big Ten senior champ,
Andy Kaul, who held a 7-1 rec
ord. After taking a first period
3-0 lead, Fornicola rode Kaul the
second period while keeping con
trol of Kaul's legs. In the final
period Fornicola escaped and
gained a point for time.
Oberly's win came over Le
high's Werner Seel, 5-2. Oberly
got a takedown in the first per
iod. Seel escaped from the down
position in the second period to
knot the score 2-2, but Oberly
reversed to lead 4-2. In the final
period Seel rode Oberly, while
attempting 'in vain to gain a
near fall. Oberly's riding time
accumulated in the first and
second periods, added his final
point.
Krufka, who defeated Frank
Rosenmayer, Colorado, in the
semi finals 7-6, met Dan Hodge,
Oklahoma soph with an 11-0 card.
Hodge, 1954 AAU champ, pinned
Krufka at 4:23. Hodge got a two
point takedown in the first per
iod, but Krufka rallied in the clos
ing seconds as he started to re•
Hart, Oklahoma, in the 137-pound tussle for the national crown.
Fornicola dropped Hart, 6-0. Fornicola also beat Pacific Coast,
Big Ten, and, Big Seven individual champions to earn his berth
in the finals. Fornicola is the first 137-pound Penn State matman
to win an NCAA title.
verse just as the bell sounded to
nullify a move that would have
definitely netted two points.
The East had 16 place winners
of the 44 wrestlers who finished
in the top four brackets in ten
weight divisions. Five were cham
pions, while three earned second
place honors. Two Eastern men
won third place honors, and six
wound up in fourth place.
After he won the 147-pound
NCAA crown, classy Ed Eichel
berger —L ehig h's 147-pound
Eastern champ and the out
standing wrestler of the EIWA
tourney two weeks ago was
awarded the NCAA trophy for
the tourney's outstanding per
former. Eichelberger turned in
five snappy victories—four of
them pins—to clinch the crown.
Defending 191-pound champ
Pete Blair, Navy, breezed past
four opponents—four of them by
pins to retain his title. After
dropping Dick Anthony, Indiana,
6-3, in the semi-finals, Blair pin
ned Len Leuer, lowa, in 5:01 for
the title. Blair led the lowa junior,
who showed an 11-1 card, 4-0,
when he scored the pin.
It was East vs. East when Ed
Peery, Pitt, and Lewis Guidi, West
Virginia, met for the 123-pound
title. Peery led 3-1 after taking
an early first-period lead with a
takedown—when he eked out a
pin at 8:30.
At 115 lowa's Terry McCann
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
jumped from his third place slot
of 1954 in the NCAA's to cop
the title with a pin at 7:06 over
Dave Bowfin, Oklahoma A and
M. McCann dominated the
match. 4-0, in the final period
atfer putting in a showy first
and second period stand.
Myron Roderick, 1954 NCAA
137-pound champ from Oklahoma
A and M, clamped a 13-2 score on
Bob Lyons of Oklahoma in win
ning the 130-pound title.
A merry-go-round of scoring
highlighted the frantic race for
the 157-pound cro w n between
Bill Weick, lowa State Teachers,
and Michigan's Mike Rodrigues.
Weick, just out o the armed ser
vice, and 1952 157-pound champ,
and Rodrigues, Big Ten title win
ner, were even 2-2 at the Send of
the second period. In the final
period, with the score 4-4, Weick
grabbed a takedown in the final
21 seconds to win 6-4.
Fred Davis, Oklahoma A and
M, won the laurels at 167-pounds
—the same class in which he was
fourth last year. He defeated Lar
ry Ten Pass, Illinois, third place
winner a year ago, 8-2. men Pass,
hampered by an injured leg sttf
fered in his semi-final win, man
aged to gain only two points by
escapes.
Following are the team scores
and the order in which each
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