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Jack Waters, Director; lm Van Valkenburg, Associate Director; Steve ~oda,kesearchDirectw; Greg Mauldin, Jules ?!'inn, Jim Wright, Research-Co@datlonr. 0 ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE to the Editorial and Sales offices, including requests for written permission to reprint any material appearing in this book. COPYRIGHT,1976, BY THE NATIONALCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICASSOCIATION PRINTED IN THE UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICA Contents page National Preview-Review ............................................................................ 5 by Russ L . Smith Helms Foundation Hall of Fame ................................................................ 8 National Collegiate Championships ........................................................ 11 by Jack Richard National Division I1 Championships ....................: ................................... 19 by Ed Kolpack National Division Ill Championships ........................................................ 23 by Steve A2lspach Collegiate Reviews ........................................................................................ 27 East-West College All-stars ...................................................................... 28 1976 Dual Meet Records............................................................................ 37 National Junior College Championships ................................................ 40 California Junior College Championships ............................................ 41 Scholastic Reviews ...................................................................................... 42 Administrative Procedures ..................................................................... 57 OFFICIAL RULES SECTION [back section. numbered from WR-I] NCAA Wrestling Committee ...................................................................... 3 Major Rules Changes for 1976-77 ...........................CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 4 Official NCAA Wrestling Rules .................................................................. 5 Penalty Chart................................................................................................. 47 Referee's Signals ................................................................... 2 ...................... 62 lndex to Rules ................................................................................................ 70 3 HEAVY DATES???-Okhhoma State\ Jimmy Jackson (left) and Iowa State's Bob Fouts dbguise themselves as dates, dancing to romantic music, in a ddmeet heavywez ht match. As a sophomore, Jackson conquewd Fouutr in Big Eight competition and won a national &e. NATIONAL PREVIEW-REVIEW Also-Rans Return The Strength lowa Lost To Set Up Four-Team Struggle In Norman By RUSS SMITH Sports Editor, The Waterloo (lowa) Courier After what ha pened there last Februarv 21, the University of Iowa wrestling team might just$ feel that if it never retukned to the University of Oklahoma's Lloyd Noble Center it would be too soon. So, then, next March 17 may well be too soon. That's when the Hawke es will go in quest of a third straight National Collegiate Athletic Association 6ivision I wrestlin championship, something that has never been achieved before except by ~klaaomaState. The Hawkeyes graduated some bi achievers from the squad that set an NCAA tournament scoring record with 123f /4 points in winning the 1975 tournament at Tucson, Ark., but they will not qo to Norman, Okla., next s ring unloaded. IT'S JUST THAT THEY THOUGH^ they were pretty well stackecfthis year-as the? surely were-and they bowed 27- 12 to the Sooners in a dual meet on February 2 1 in LIoyd Noble Center, the site of the 1976 NCAA meet. It was Iowa's only loss in any kind of a wrestling meet in two years. The closest the Hawkeyes came to bowing in 1974-75 wh& they won the NCXA meet with 102 points was in a 19-19 dual meet tie with state rival Iowa State. They won the Midlands and the Big Ten championships and 311 other dual meets the last two seasons. They defeated Oklahoma twice in duals in 1974-75. This figured to be an Iowa year. The finger was on both of Iowa's big state universities, Iowa and Iowa State, from the beginning and, at the end, in second place 37% points behind the Hawkeyes at 'Tucson,.was Iowa State. Now ~t'sOklahoma's turn-both to host the nationals and, so far as Sooner coach Stan Abel is concerned, to win it. The biggest argument he gets may come from cross-state rival Oklahoma State. But both of the Iowa teams should challenge. Russ Smith, who p-evz~wsthe collegiate wrestling scene This year, in other words, . for the Guide for the fourth strazpht war. has been cover in^ there are four teams that can NCA~&t championships eve6 be accurately categorized as year since 1958, "loaded." ~hat'iroughly The Iowa native has also made the Olympic wrestling twice as many as last year. scene in u re orting capacity THE NEW 1 1,500-seat No- three times-k;exico Czty in ble Center has had a full 1968, Munich in 1972 and year's shakedown at OU. Montreal in 1976. And, in effect, Abel himself Smith was thejirst recz ient $ devoted last year to prepara- the Bob Dellinger awarBas Am- tions for the meet. ateur Wrestlin Writer of the. Year and servefas charter presi- He held out of com- dent of the Amateur Wrestling petition two seniors who, be- Media of America. tween them, have won five As a, biogra her he ha5 : to his credit "The Legend of Dan wrestling all-America Gable: The &restier". awards including one na- tional championship. 6 THE OFFICIAL WRESTLING GUIDE 1977 1 Without 134-pounder Brian Beatson, 1975 runner-up, and 158-167-pounder \ Rod Kilgore, fourth in 1975 and a 1974 champion, the Sooners were a somewhat 1 disa pomtin ninth at Tucson. AE 34%okheir NCAA points return for the 1976-77 season tq join Beatson, i Kilgore and a flashy class of seven recruits that Abel is bringin in. Big Eight champion Shawn Garel, the defending 118-pouncfchampion, ran i into some disfavor in Tucson when he couldn't make weight for the second dav of I wrestling. He wasjust ajunior, and if he com letes his ehgibility this year, he may still face the prospect of the long pull to 11g pounds. THAT'S BECAUSE ONE OF THE SOONERS' brightest prosrts last year was at 126 z ounds-sophomore Ken Nelson who went into the Big ight meet undefeated, gut ham ered by a rib injury he had sustained in the dual meet against Iowa. - ~elson$aced second to Iowa State's Bob Antonacci in the conference but third in .. the natlon, a highly respectable finish for a physically-ailing so homore. The on1 other Swner to place last March was 190-pounder arkNeumann. I- Still ~dhomastarts this season with Garel, Nelson and Beatson in the first three weights and come along later with Kilgore, probably at 167,and Neumann. They went to Montana for two of their leading