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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-
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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 _
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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
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