Event Site Date BASEBALL 1975 Omaha, Neb. June 6-12 BASKETBALL East Regional 1975 Providence, R.I. Mar. 20,22 Mideast Regional 1975 Dayton, 0. Mar. 20, 22 Midwest Regional 1975 Las Cruces, N.M. Mar. 20,22 West Regional 1975 Portland, Ore. Mar. 20, 22 Finals 1975 San Diego, Cal. Mar. 29,31 FENCING 1975 To be determined Mar. 27-29 GOLF 1975 To be determined June 18-21 GYMNASTICS 1975 Terre Haute, Ind. Apr. 3-5 ICE HOCKEY 1975 St. Louis, Mo. Mar. 13, 15 LACROSSE 1975 To be determined June 7 SKIING 1975 Durango, Colo. To be determined SOCCER 1974 St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 5, 7 SWIMMING 1975 Cleveland, 0. Mar. 27-29 TENNIS 1975 Corpus Christi, Tex. June 16-21 TRACK & FIELD Cross Country 1974 Bloomington, Ind. Nov. 25 Indocii 1975 Detroit, Mich. Mar. 14-15 Outdoor 1975 Provo, Utah June 5-7 VOLLEY BALL 1975 To be determined May 23-24 WATER POLO 1974 To be determined Nov. 22-23 WRESTLING 1975 Princeton, N.1. 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COPYRIGHT,1974 BY THE NATIONALCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION &WED IN - UNITEDSTATES OF &ERICA Contents THE HARDER THEY FALL-Western Illinois heavyweight Jim Woods performs a single leg takedown of Michgnn's Gary Ernst in national title match won by Woods, 9-5. A win by Emst would have given Michigan the team championship. NATIONAL PREVIEW-REVIEW Cowboys Prep For Another Title Run, But Sooners And Cyclones Loaded Too By RUSS 1. SMITH Sports Editor, The Waterloo (Iowa) Courier The 1974 National Collegiate wrestling tournament started a half hour late, swirled through some 700 matches in three da s and around 21 hours of wrestling, and the championship was decided in tie final minute of the final match on 'the final da . The dramatic finish was male possible by Oklahoma State. It's one thing to lose all eight Saturday matches, each one of which would assure the win- ner a higher finish in his weight class. But it's even more devastating when such a collapse as the Cowboys suffered last year at Ames set up cross-state rival Oklahoma for the championship. Coach Tom Chesbro has taken some monumental strides to make certain that when the nation's mat elite gather next March at Princeton, the Cow- boys are on top, not only first but last. CHESBRO ADDED UP HIS ASSETS and noted that when wrestling practice starts again, he'll have back on the mat 56 of the 64 points which were good for third place in the meet last year. But instead of propping his booted feet up on top of his desk, inserting thumbs in vest and tilting back in his chair with a self-satisfied smirk, Ches- bro added two former national collegiate champions to his coaching staff and the troupe went out and signed a total of 11 outstanding high school wrest- lers to national letters of intent. Four of these recruits could realistically be mentioned among the top half dozen high school wrestling products turned out in the nation last year. Some of them, as freshmen in 1974-75, will surely turn out to pasture members of the Oklahoma State squad which scored or placed in the NCAA tourna- ment last year. When the wrestling writers from across the Defending champion country got together last winter to organize, they Oklahoma isn't hurting for named Russ Smith the first president of the grbyp returning talent and is se- which calls itself ~restlzni cond only to Oklahoma Media of America. State in that regard with It wasn't the first time his peers had honored the 49 points back. The Soon- Waterloo Courier sports ers also feel they have editor. He won the Bob signed another of those Dellinger Award as the wrestling writer of the year half dozen bluest of the in 1963. 1974 blue chip preps. Sports editor since 1966 IOWA and Courier staffer since STATE, which fin- 1949, Smith grew u in the ished fourth one point be- Waterloo-Cedar ~af&hot- hind Oklahoma State, re- bed of wrestling where a sports iozrrnalist ' HAD to turns 48 points. Iowa, ollow the sport. He hecame. active on the coL which finished fifth, lost fegiate beat in 1958. 18% of its 48% points, but has one of the nation's out- 5 6 THE OFFICIAL WRESTLING GUIDE standing young squads and the sixth member of the theoretical most talented half dozen recruits. 1 Runner-up Michigan was all but wiped out at season end. All but four and i one half points of the 67 scored by the Wolverines have completed their eli- 4 gibility and coach Rick Bay has resigned to enter business. i It was Iowa, the Big Ten champion, and Oklahoma State, the Big Eight Y champion, who were supposed to battle for the NCAA title last year at An~es' beautiful new Hilton Coliseum. ; BUT WHEN IT CAME DOWN to the heavyweight championship match, Michi- gan, the Big Ten runner-up, and Oklahoma, the Big Eight runner-up, were the two contenders. Michigan had the last chance. Heavyweight Gary Ernst, who had placed fourth in the 1973 NCAA meet, had only to repeat a Midlands tournament victory over Jim Woods, the Di- vision I1 champion from Western Illinois, to give the Wolverines the team title by a 71-69%margin over the Sooners. But Woods waited until1 the last minute to score a 9-5 decision and deprive Michigan. Eastern fans will see only two defending champions next year at Prince- ton, but one of them, Pat Milkovich, will be trying to put another leg on becoming the first collegian ever to win the ultimate - four NCAA crowns. The Michigan State 126-pounder came off the 1973 injured list to win his second title in 1974. But he admits it was a hard pull, which means he could make his 1975 bid at 134 pounds. Sooner sophomore Rod Kilgore, whose last-second victory over Minnesota junior Larry Zilverberg proved to be the decisive factor in Oklahoma's title bid. is the other 1974 cham~iondue to return. DAN MUTHLER OF NAVY, &e 142-pound winner in 1973, will be a senior in ., 1975. He was one of four defending champions going into the 1974 meet who did not repeat. Another was 134-pounder Don Rohn of Clarion State who will still be only a junior next March. Rohn was third in 1974. What has Chesbro done in an attempt to thwart all of the excitement caused by the close 1974 finish? The Cowboy returnees include Billy Martin, Big Eight champion and NCAA runner-up at 126; Big Eight champion Steve Barrett at 134 and Big Eight champion Rick Jones at 177 among others. But Chesbro wasn't satisfied to stand pat. First he signed a couple of Stillwater, Okla., businessmen, Dwayne Keller, former two-time NCAA champion for the Cowboys, and Dave Martin, a 1970 champion at Iowa State, as part-time coaches. It wasn't much of a coup for Martin to induce his brother, Paul, who left ; Algona, Iowa, with three state high school championships and 90 consecu- tive victories, to sign an Oklahoma State letter.