THE OFFICIAL @National Collegiate Athletic Association WRESTLING GUIDE produced and distributed by the >NCAA PUBLISHING SERVICE Shawnee Mission, Kansas ON THE COVER Iowa's national cham- pion Chuck Yagla, who avenged one of . just two '75 dual meet losses with his hCAA title victory over Wisconsin's Lee Kemp. The 150-pound senior grappler is a native of Waterloo, Iowa, and followed in the footsteps of two older brothers to be- come a Hawkeye. As a high school senior, Yagla won the national freestyle crown at 145. He gained all-America honors as a soph, finishing fourth in the national meet at Ames. in '74, and in 1975 won the Big Ten title. The Iowa co-captain has led his team in falls the last two sasons. Second in the world junior games in 1973, the business education major hopes to make a bid for the '76 Olympics. PUBLISHED ANNUALLY by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, John A. 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Smith Helms Foundation Hall of Fame ----...-.---...-...----------------------------8 National Collegiate Championships ._----..-.........----------------------1 1 by Jack Pfeifer OFFICIAL RULES SECTION [back section, numbered from WR-I] Major Rules Changes for 1975-76 ---.-.----....-...--------------------------5 Index to Rules .--.-....---..--.------------------------------------------------.--------- 72 J - 3 NATIONAL PREVIEW-REV1EW lowa Grabs Crown Ahead Of Schedule;' Expects Wrestle Royal For '76 Honor By RUSS 1. SMITH Sports Editor, The Waterloo (lowa) Courier Were the Hawkeyes a year early? Or were they just in time? By the time the University of Iowa's youthful wrestlers had wrapped up the national collegiate championship at Princeton, N.J., the surprise had worn off. Iowa wasn't involved in a losing meet all season. At the time the season started, however, it was calculated that Iowa's bid for its first national title might be another year away. But you take them when you can get them. Now, of course, this IS the year that was supposed to be for Iowa, and the Hawkeyes will be strong. They lost only one senior regular-national 158-pound champion Dan Holm-and have 80% of their 1975 total of 102 points returning from the national tournament. BUT THERE ARE AT LEAST FOUR OTHER squads around the country which aren't conceding the Hawkeyes even the time of day. When the big show invades the Southwest next March for the first time, the fans around the University of Arizona in Tucson can rest assured that the title is still open. In the first place, there are as many as six of last year's champions who may be seeking repeats this year along with no fewer than three former champions who didn't win in 1975. One of the defending champions is from Iowa, but two are from Lehigh and one from Oklahoma, and the Sooners also have one of the three in the "former" category. Oklahoma and Lehigh figure to give the Hawkeyes their stiffest argument. Further, nobody wins a wrestling crown without reckoninn with Oklahoma State and-1owa State and, suddenly, Wisconsin has Now sercing his second term as president of the Wrestline Media of America, Waterloo's Russ become a major factor. Smith prmiews the national The Sooners went into college wrestling scene in the Guide fur a third the NCAA tournament straight season. with a mind to defend He recently authored their '74 title and finished a biography on Olympic champion Dan Gable en- a strong second. titled "The Legend of Dan THEY'VE LOST Jeff Callard, Gable: The Wrestler". Smith has been sports second and fifth the past editm of the Waterloo two years at 167 pounds, Courier since 1966, and he and Bill Kalkbrenner, the has written fur that Iowa publication since 1949. fourth-place heavyweight, He became active on the but coach Stan Able re- collegiate wrestling beat in cruited nine athletes and 1958-only natural for a euu who grew uv i n the Waterloo-Cedar Falls describes it as Oklahoma's best crop of freshmen-to- be ever. 6 THE OFFICIAL WRESTLING GUIDE 1976 Oklahoma went from coast-to-coast and then back home for three wrestlers who were named the most outstanding in their states. Frank DeAngeles, a 134-pounder, was a two-time New York state cham- pion. Gary Baker of Corbett, Ore., was a two-time champion at 154 pounds as well as the outstanding wrestler in the state. Brian Evans, a 118-pounder from Norman, Okla., was named outstanding class AAAA prep, winning the 123-pound state championship. Oklahoma's No. 1 returnee is sophomore 118-pounder Shawn Garel, who won the national chmpionship at Princeton. ABEL ALSO HAS N~AARUNNERUP Brian Beatson back at 134 along with Rod Kilgore, who slipped from the championship in 1974 to fourth this year at 158. The Sooners are srong enou h in the middle to consider moving Kilgore to 167 pounds, at least for the cfual meets, to replace Callard. At heavyweight, Herb Calvert, a sophomore from New Jersey, wrestled close to Kalkbrenner in the Sooner wrestling room all last year. The Lehigh Engineers will have six Eastern Intercolle iate champions in their lineup including 134-pound national titlist Mike ~ric&and 177-pounder Mike- - - Lieberman. both of whom won the NCAA as juniors in 1975. Frick, a two-time m~st'outstandin~Eastern wrestler, added'that distinction in the national tournament last March. Lehigh's other returning Eastern champions are Lance Leonhardt, 118 pounds; Pat Sculley, 142; Mark Lieberman, 167, and Don McCorkel, 190. The nationals have been a disaster the past two years for Oklahoma State which both times entered a slight favorite and finished third. BUT THAT DOESN'T MARK THE COWBOYS for consistency. Two years ago they folded the final day after, seemingly, having the title wrapped up. Their '75 chances went down the drain almost before the strains of The Star-Spangled Banner had died out for the opening session. Big Eight champion Billy Martin was defeated in a preliminary round match 10-5 by Jim Blair of Eastern Carolina. Martin was at 118 for a shot at the title he missed the year before when he bowed to Michigan State's two-time winner Pat Milkovich in the finals at 126 pounds, The other half of that upset parlay was completed when Milkovich dropped an overtime bout to John Fritz of Penn State, a senior who'd placed third behind Milkovich and Martin in '74. Milkovich, thus, is denied the opportunity to become the first NCAA wrestler ever to find four national titles, though he can still become the first to win three firsts and a second as a senior next year. - But Martin's loss, coupled with Blair's 165 loss in the second round which knocked Martin out of the consolation bracket, doomed Oklahoma State to an uphill battle and the Cowboys didn't make it. THEY WON A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP with senior Ron Ray at 167 pounds, while senior Steve Randall slipped from second to fourth at 142. Their second best finish was by freshman Paul Martin, third at 150 pounds. They had another freshman, Dave McQuaig, fifth at 177 pounds, and a sophomore, Steve Barrett, the same at.134. Other than Ray and Randall their biggest graduation loss was 190-pounder Rich Jones, a former conference 177-pound champion. Searching for instant help the Cowboys have recruited two former national junior college champions- John Phillips of Claremore, Okla., 118 pounds, and Roger Williams of Tonkawa, Okla., at 142 pounds. Other recruits include a 'four-time Kansas high school champion in Doug NATIONAL PREVIEW-REVIEW 7 Duel1 at 126 pounds, three-time champion Pat Pace from Oklahoma at 158, and a two-timer from California, John Azevedo, 118 pounds. Iowa State's fourth place finish last year was close enough to have been second, and the Cyclones, who have won it all five times since 1965, have some things up their sleeves in 1976.