ANNUAL WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP MEET

The 13th annual National Collegiate Wrestling Championship
Meet held at the University of Illinois on March 29th and 30th was
the most successful meet we have ever conducted. 112 contestants
representing 36 different colleges and universities participated in
the meet. This was next to the largest meet we have ever held, both
in number of individual participants and institutions represented.
The geographical distribution was as follows: From New England,
1 institution and 1 contestant only; from the East exclusive of New
England, 10 institutions with 32 participants—a very good repre-
sentation in comparison with other years when the annual meet was
held in the middle West; from the South, 2 institutions with 5 par-
ticipants; from the middle West, 16 institutions with 53 partici-
pants; from the Southwest, 3 institutions with 15 participants; from
the Rocky Mountain district, 3 institutions with 4 participants, and
1 institution with 2 contestants representing the West Coast.

The meet was conducted in four sections on Friday afternoon,
Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday evening. During
the entire meet 135 matches were held and divided as follows:
preliminaries on Friday afternoon with 50 matches; quarter-finals
Friday evening with 31 matches; semi-finals Saturday afternoon
with 16 matches; and finals and second and third place consolation
rounds Saturday evening with 38 matches. Whenever necessary
three matches were conducted simultaneously.

Results of Competition

Twenty-one of the 36 teams participating scored one or more
points. For the fourth consecutive year Oklahoma A. & M. College
won the team championship by a decisive margin because of their
well balanced team which won places in six out of the eight weight
classes, and scored a total of 24 points. Indiana University won
second place with a total of 14 points, and the University of Michi-
gan placed third with 10 points. Colorado State College, Lehigh
University, and Ohio State University tied for fourth, fifth, and
sixth places with 7 points each; Iowa State Teachers College and
the University of Minnesota tied for seventh and eighth with 6
points; Iowa State College and the University of Oklahoma came
next with 5 points; Franklin and Marshall College and the Uni-
versity of Illinois with 4 points each; Kansas State College and
Kent State University with 2 points each; and Dubuque, Lafayette,
Michigan State, Oklahoma Southwest State Teachers, Purdue,
Syracuse, and Temple failed to win first, second, or third places but
each of these institutions scored one point for a fall sometime dur-
ing the progress of the meet.

The general improvement in intercollegiate wrestling is clearly
demonstrated by the fact that only one institution (Oklahoma A. &
M. College) was able to annex two championships; the State Uni-
versities of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Oklahoma, Lehigh Uni-

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