Event Site Date BASEBALL 1974 Omaha, Neb. June 14-20 BASKETBALL East Regional 1974 Raleigh, N.C. Mar. 14,16 Mideast Regional 1974 Tuscaloosa, Ala. Mar. 14,16 Midwest Regional 1974 Las Cruces, N.M. Mar. 14,16 West Regional 1974 Tucson, Ariz. Mar. 14,16 Finals 1974 Greensboro, N.C. Mar. 23,25 FENCING 1974 Cleveland, 0. Mar. 28-30 GOLF 1974 San Diego, Cal. June 19-22 GYMNASTICS 1974 University Park, Pa. Apr. 4-6 ICE HOCKEY 1974 Boston Garden Mar. 14-16 LACROSSE 1974 New Brunswick, N.J. June 1 SKIING 1974 To be determined SOCCER 1974 Miami Orange Bowl Jan. 2,4 SWIMMING 1974 Long Beach, Cal. Mar. 28-30 TENNIS 1974 Los Angeles, Cat. June 17-22 TRACK & FIELD Cross Country 1973 Spokane, Wash. Nov. 19 Indoor 1974 Detroit, Mich. Mar. 8-9 Outdoor 1974 Austin, Tex. June 6-8 VOLLEY BALL 1974 To be determined May 24-25 WATER POLO 1973 To be determined Nov. 23-24 WRESTLING 1974 Ames, Iowa Mar. 14-16 -- -- THE OFFICIAL National Collegiote Athletic Association WRESTLING GUIDE produced and distributed by the NCAA PUBLISHING SERVICE Shawnee Mission, Kansas ON THE COVER: Ore on State senior Greg Strobel, whose 39tf victory in an un- beaten junior season earned the national collegiate 190-pound championship and honor as the meet's outstanding wrestler in 1973. That triumph tied the Oregon State record for most wins in a season and set Strobel's career mark at 92-7-1. The native of- Scappoose, Ore., was a three-time state champion in high school and competed on an Oregon cultural exchange team that tour- ed New Zealand in the summer of 1970. This past summer he participated in the South Africa Games. A business and tech- nology major at OSU, Strobel will defend his championship in March at this year's meet in Ames, Iowa. 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Contents OFFICIA,L RULES SECTION [back section, numbered from WR-I] NCAA, Wrestling Rules Committee -..-.-------.-.--..----------------------3 EYEING HIS PREY-Massive Chris Taylor sizes up one of the five opponents he pinned en route to national heavyweight championship. The graduation, of the Iowa State ace throws the heavyweight title up for grabs in the 1974 season. NATIONAL PREVIEW-REVIEW Hilton Coliseum's Friendly Confines Might Assist Cyclone ~epeatEfforts By RUSS 1. SMITH Sports Editor, The Waterloo (Iowa) Courier The National Collegiate Athletic Association's 44th national tournament will unfold in March in Ames, Iowa, home of the Iowa State University Cyclones and just about the only place, in recent years, that the Cyclones haven't won a national championship. Since they won their first in 1965 at Laramie, Wyo., the Cyclones have won five championships, but one of the four they missed was the 1966 meet which was in the Iowa State Armory in Ames. This season's edition will be in grand, new 14,500-seat Hilton Coliseum and, just as in 1966, Iowa State will enter as defending champion. Whether or not the Cyclones have the strength to repeat without huge heavyweight Chris Taylor for an anchorman is a matter that will possibly remain under contention right up until 10 p.m. Saturday, March 16. The only thing that seems relatively certain about that evening is that Hilton Coliseum will be jammed to its high, girderless ceiling with the largest crowd ever to see collegiate wrestling in the United States. AMES IS BIG EIGHT COUNTRY AND THAT IS WRESTLING COUNTRY. That Con- ference has claimed 38 undisputed championships and tied for another in the previous 43 years, and the state of Iowa won two of the four champion- ships that got away from the Big Eight. Only once in the long history of NCAA wrestling did the team title leave the Midwest, when Fenn State claimed it back in 1953. Dr. Harold Nichols has only been out of the win, place or show ring once since he coached Iowa State to a third place in 1957. However, the West Coast got into the picture last year like it never has befork. Oregon State had Russ Smith won the Bob Dellinger Award as a shot at the championship the wrestling writer of the year in 1963, the first going into the final round year after Bob decided to and finally finished a retire from the honor. So it is only natural strong second behind the perhaps that he succeed; Cyclones. el ling& as the Guide's author of the national HOST WASHINGTON, shat- wrestling preciew article. tered by injuries that per- Dellinger leff newspaper- sisted right up through ing this year to take n position with the U.S. the NCAA tournament, Wrestling Federation. still finished seventh. Smith sports editor of the ~ahooCourier since And Brigham Young 1966 and a staffer since came out of the moun- 1949, grew up in the tains for a stunning fourth- Wa-terloo-Cedar Falls hot- bed of wrestling, where a place finish ahead of both $ports journalist HAD to follow the sport. He Big Eight champ Okla- became active on the collegiate beat in 1958. homa State and confer- ence power Oklahoma. 5 6 THE OFFICIAL WRESTLING GUIDE 1974 The East's best threat in the meet doesn't show up in the team stand- ings. Clarion State had three champions and could have tabulated more points than all but Iowa State, Oregon State and Michigan, but the Eagles, as a college division school, can not compete for the national title. Two of Clarion's champions will be among the six individual titlists returning this year. But the Eagles will have to do without two-time champion Wade Schalles, who lost only one match in two years, none last year. Schalles was named outstanding wrestler in 1972 when he won at 150 pounds. Last year he moved up to 158 and won again, defeating Ore- gon State senior Mike R. Jones in the finals and formally clinching the team championship for Iowa State. BUT THE OUTSTANDINC3-WRESTLER AWARD went to Oregon State's likewise undefeated and untied 190-pounder, Greg Strobel, a junior who will be out to repeat this year at Ames. Schalles will wrestle through the dual meets with the Eagles. However, he is a transfer student with no more tournament eligibility. Not so Clarion State freshman Don Rohn, who was the second straight wrestler from his school to win the 134-pound university division crown after placing third in that weight in the college division. He'll have three more shots at a University Division title. Bill Simpson, powerful 167-pound champion, also will have another try. Iowa State lost three of its six placewinners via graduation. Two of the returnees have placed in two previous NCAA meets. Taylor. the 1973 meet's pinning champion, Capt. Keith Abens at 167 and Bill Fjetland at 134 were seniors. CHAMPION RICH BlNEK AT 177 WAS A JUNIOR. He placed third at the weight the year before. A1 Nacin was fifth at 190 pounds as a sophomore after finishing second at 177 as a freshman in 1971. Nacin did not compete in 1972. Ron Class, a sophomore, placed second at 126 pounds. Nichols. of course, didn't stav home during the recruiting season. His prize catch would have to be Bob Holland, a middleweight out of East Leyden High in Schiller Park, Illinois. One of the most sought after high school wrestlers in the nation last spring, Holland was a prep all-America, undefeated and with a victory by fall over another high school all-America, Tony Cordes of Waterloo, Iowa. It was the only defeat suffered last year by Cordes. a close personal friend and wrestling protege of Olympic champion Dan Cable. Cordes won two state titles and a second for West Waterloo High and has followed Gable, now an assistant coach at the University of Iowa, to the Hawkeye squad where he joins three other high school all-America recruits. HE MAY HAVE A HARD TIME MAKING THE HAWKEYES' LINEUP what with re- turning third place winner Don Holm at 159 pounds and Tan Sanderson, a 1972 sixth place finisher, back again at 158.