laiUf VOL 62. No: "V 6 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA..MONDAY MORNING. MARCH 12. 1962 FIVE CEN . __ ' _ ~.: -_--S r ~ <l± ! Peery Blue; As jßrown d By JOHN MORRIS ! Assistant Sports Editor : Pitt wrestling coach* Rex , walked .dejectedly . around! the backedges of the crowd | Saturday night He looked tilled, but he also looked relaxed for the first” time in two days. : ' i ’ The veteran coach had broughj his to Rec Hall as cd ‘ favorites for the Eastern' Inter collegiate Wrestling Association team championship, but by the end of the semi-final round Peery -. knew, that liis team would] never catch Lehigh- j j : .“We will have to win* every ' thing and have them lose all their . matches to catch them ’now,” ; Peery said before the final round, IT SEEMED UNLIKELY that - Lehigh would lose all . its matches Saturday night, but it appeared , just as dubious that the Engineers could .possibly win them all eitheri i However,] that is exactly, what they 'did,, taking six individual championships, ; scoring a new team recordiof 98 points and com pletely dominating,what was sup ' posed-to bo a 16-team tourney. - Total attendance ;for the. four sessions wai l2;900- Most, of the ’ fans were, for at least sounded like, Lehigh partisans who had come to iheer their Engineers to victory. : They j weren’t ' disapr pointed. -I- , - ’ The 96 {joints 'topped the old record of 88, set. by Lehigh in • last year?s competition. The ’ Engineers' six championr are the most for any team since . Penn State had.six in 1918 wher there were only seven weigh’ classes. The Lions had five chani . pions in 1937. . . LEHIGH 'MOVES ahead of Pern ’ State ;th the number of all-time individual] champions with 81 . The! Lidfas have Shad 78. Army assistant coach Greg Ruth : a former Ltiugk grappler himself had. an explanation for the* Eh ginecrs’ success Saturday night , “This thing: started building uf ‘'when'Bifir iMetnan* beii Martin eers r Ruth Sees Red nd White Dominat (Pitt defending 123-pound cham pion Dick Martin). That was the end of the: tournament and I don’t mean that this thing was psychological either. All the of ficials'could see was brown and white..’;Brown and 'white are Le high’s colors, in case you hadn’t guessed. The Merriam-Martin match, one of the Closest battles in the toura ment, ended in a 7-6 decision for the cocjcy Merriam. Martin „was only one of four former Champions to taste defeatl in-the championship round. I STATE'S RON PITER lost at 147, Pitt’s John Zolikoff wis de feated, at 137-and A 1 Rushata at Arirv was defeated at 167. The Rushatz-Dave Angell match ended iin a 1-1 deadlock regulation time and was still: 1-1 at the end of the over|im< The referee’s decision was giv to the Lehigh grappler. The {decision • stirred a ldt controversy among the coaches. J6e Scandura of Syracuse was one of several coaches to question -the officiating of the bout Most' of the controversy raged over an takedown by- Rushatz. 'Referee ; Raymond • B. Oliver raised two fingers as the ngnal.for a takedown. But then, is the wrestlers rolled off/the mat, his other hand came* up to ugnal a neutral position. Scandura approached Lien coach "Tharhe! Speidel about a (loaches' nvestigatfon and review of the .natch. Speidel agreed to look into he matter, but didn’t want “any iart of an attempt to change; the ’ccision. . FOR; ALL THE controversy bout : the officiating in ; the tourney, there was no debate about he outstanding wrestler. Kirki Pendleton, Lehigh’s 157- EAST ISSUE ToiUy's issue of The Dally Collegian is the lest of the term.) Regular publication will resume Thursday. March £3. pound champion, was voted t award by the 16 member coach The cat-quick junior pinned thi of his four opponents and accurr lated 8:09 riding time on Arm Mike Natvig in the finals. Martin received the Fletcl Memorial Award as the wrest who has contributed the most his team in EIWA tournament All the matches in the eonsc tion . bracket were limited to 1 minutes since consolation winn face£ the prospect of wrestl three matches in one day. As Brown’s Willie Wood s after wrestling Army’s Da (Kuhns, Temple's Bill Lites t iState’s Ed Pohland to finish th in the heavyweight divisi “Whew.” : y LEHIGH'S JIM _ Kn But thzriog fbtdz HaS Seiirrdaj sight EIW As Capture Six Crowns; (.ions Finish Fourth .| By DEAN SI LUCK j , Assistant, Sport* Editor . . | !' The 58th annual ETWA tournament is history now, hut the upsets and records it produced may take future wrestlers another 58 years to erase, j • / s j j The upsetting of six! of nine top-seeded grapplers, the winning of six individual'titles.by one team,) the almost;un believable losses of two national runners-up! and defending eastern champs and the scoring of 86- points by the champions ail combined to make this year’s tourney at Hec Hall one, of tse most record-breaking in history, ■ . .[ Lehigh ran. away with the team title, copping six cham pionships and setting an EIWA record by sqoring 98 points during the two-day affair.'ln fact the Engineer so dominated the action that the 'finals Saturday night looked like a dual meet with Lehigh against the rest of the East,’ THE OTHERS stacked-up like this: Pitt 69. Navy 49. Penn State 48, Arrrfy 43, Rutgers 37,'Syracuse 16, Yale 9, Cornell 7, Brown 7, F&M 6, Harvard 4, Penn 4, Columbia 3, Temple 2, and Princeton 1. - i In winning their 16th EIWA title, the Engineer* copped championships with Bill Merriam at 123, Pat Smartt at 130, J Kirk Pendleton at 157, Dave Angell at 167, Jim Detrixhe at 177, and Chuck Moore at 191. Other title winners were Mike Harman of 137, DaryLKelvington of Pitt at 147 and Ed Scharer of Rutgers at heavyweight, 1 : ' Lehigh’ssix champions are the most since State produced six in 1918 when there were only seven weight classes. The evening of upsets began with the first bout! at 123 and didn’t end until the! heavyweight clash. Pitt’s njational runner-up and defending' eastern champion Dick Martin was the first top-seeded grappler to go down the drain. MARTIN RAN HEAD INTO Lehigh’s little tiger Merriam apd the two hooked-up in one of the most thrilling bouts of the tournament. Martin, who has never lost a dual meet match and whose three year record was 35-3. scored a first 4 period takedown. But Merriam reversed and then added a takedown apd escape in the second period to go in front, 5 i 2. - • Martin came right back with a reversal in the last stanza but so did the fired-up The Panther added ah escapes with 59 seconds remaining and then tried desperately jfbr - the Merriam was warned for stalling iri theJast secohds, but the Engineer had the 7-6 stunning upset and the 123-pound championship.- ! Smartt was the next Engineer to win. The 130-pounder came from behind with a last period reversal to score a 6-j4 win oyer Navy’s Denny Farrar. 1 j ° Farrar built up a 4-3 lead in the third, period, but Smartt countered with a last minute reversal and riding time. ’ At 137, top-seeded John Zolikoff of Pitt lost a 3-2 overtime decision to Navy’s Harman. The pair battled to a Irl draw in regulation time, each scoring an escape, In overtime Zolikoff had two escapes while Harman had' a takedown and an escape. * j State’s defending champion Pifer suffered one of his most humilating defeats, 3-1. to the Panthers’ Kelving (Continued on ' the us. iee r u- - roll Pits'*. to win his sccead coosaculira ETWA champion* > h*ttl« Us Roc ship cs Lahigh ran awa* from lha itit oi th« best Barr. 4-0, field is teas* scoring with OS points..
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