1931 NCAA D1 National Championship
Info
Date: March 27-28
Location: Providence, RI
Venue: Brown Gym
Host: Brown (RI)
Teams: 25
Wrestlers: 66
Milestones
- First National Champ/Finalist/AA for Lehigh (PA)
- First National Champ/Finalist for Kansas State
- First Finalist/AA for Haverford (PA)
- First Finalist/AA for Northern Iowa
- First Finalist/AA for Navy (MD)
- First AA for Michigan State
- 4x Consecutive Team National Titles for Oklahoma State
Participating Teams
Brown (RI)
Case-Western Reserve (OH)
Chicago (IL)
Cornell (IA)
Harvard (MA)
Haverford (PA)
Iowa State
Kansas State
Lafayette (PA)
Lehigh (PA)
Massachusetts Tech
Michigan
Michigan State
Navy (MD)
Northern Iowa
Northwestern (IL)
Oklahoma State
Rhode Island
Rutgers (NJ)
Springfield (MA)
Syracuse (NY)
Tufts (MA)
Virginia Military
Washington & Jefferson (PA)
Wheaton (IL)
Participating Wrestlers
118 (8)
Jesse Arends – Northern Iowa
Stanley Ball – Michigan State
Samuel Daniels – Tufts (MA)
Daniel Dicenzo – Rhode Island
John Engel – Lehigh (PA)
Sumner Forward – Syracuse (NY)
Andrew Hesser – Oklahoma State
Clarence ‘Clarry’ Kasden – Brown (RI)
126 (5)
Joe Fickel – Kansas State
Arthur Klein – Harvard (MA)
Hyman ‘Henry’ Krakowsky – Case-Western Reserve (OH)
Lyle Morford – Cornell (IA)
Bobby Pearce – Oklahoma State
135 (11)
Bill Anderson – Syracuse (NY)
Harry Byam – Michigan State
Dick Cole – Iowa State
John Devine – Oklahoma State
Finn Eriksen – Northern Iowa
James Hastings – Tufts (MA)
Francis Quillan – Brown (RI)
Frank Shaw – Lehigh (PA)
Herman Shea – Massachusetts Tech
Stuart Will Sr. – Virginia Military
Joseph Woodard – Michigan
145 (12)
George Dewey Jr. – Virginia Military
Bill Doyle – Kansas State
William ‘Harry’ Dyer – Chicago (IL)
Giff Foley – Haverford (PA)
Robert Garrigan – Northwestern (IL)
Ernest Jordan – Syracuse (NY)
Al Rometo – Washington & Jefferson (PA)
Bliss Sargeant Jr. – Lafayette (PA)
Ben Spiwak – Brown (RI)
Walter Thomas – Iowa State
William ‘Bud’ Uanna – Tufts (MA)
Walter Young – Oklahoma State
155 (12)
Ned Brody – Brown (RI)
Elmer Carpenter – Syracuse (NY)
Dave Coe – Springfield (MA)
James Fawcett – Rutgers (NJ)
LeRoy McGuirk – Oklahoma State
Bob Miller – Northwestern (IL)
Orville Orr – Northern Iowa
Alexander Pett – Wheaton (IL)
John Richardson – Kansas State
William Robertson – Harvard (MA)
Max Silverstein – Navy (MD)
Louis Vassalotti – Massachusetts Tech
165 (7)
Robert Hess – Iowa State
Ray ‘RD’ Nicholson – Case-Western Reserve (OH)
Meyer ‘Bill’ Shanker – Lehigh (PA)
Winship Story – Tufts (MA)
Woods Talman – Virginia Military
Jack VanBebber – Oklahoma State
Stewart Woodward – Brown (RI)
175 (4)
Henry Batt – Springfield (MA)
Wes Brown Jr. – Northwestern (IL)
Conrad Caldwell – Oklahoma State
Carl Dougovito – Michigan
UNL (7)
Carl ‘Hugh’ Errington – Kansas State
Harry Fields – Haverford (PA)
Harold Hirshberg – Lehigh (PA)
Joe McCrary – Oklahoma State
Thomas Rae – Springfield (MA)
John ‘Jack’ Riley – Northwestern (IL)
George Teitz – Brown (RI)
Match Results
| Weight | Round | W First | W Last | W School | Result | L First | L Last | L School | W Score | L Score | Minutes | Seconds | OT | W Seed | L Seed | Result Notes | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | 1st | John | Engel | Lehigh (PA) | FALL | Jesse | Arends | Northern Iowa | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 118 | 2nd | Jesse | Arends | Northern Iowa | DEC | Andrew | Hesser | Oklahoma State | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 118 | 3rd | Andrew | Hesser | Oklahoma State | FALL | Samuel | Daniels | Tufts (MA) | 1 | 59 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 118 | Champ 4 | Jesse | Arends | Northern Iowa | FALL | Samuel | Daniels | Tufts (MA) | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 118 | Champ 4 | John | Engel | Lehigh (PA) | DEC | Stanley | Ball | Michigan State | 3 | 50 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 118 | Champ 8 | Jesse | Arends | Northern Iowa | FALL | Clarence ‘Clarry’ | Kasden | Brown (RI) | 1 | 45 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 118 | Champ 8 | Stanley | Ball | Michigan State | FALL | Sumner | Forward | Syracuse (NY) | 13 | 54 | x | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 118 | Champ 8 | Samuel | Daniels | Tufts (MA) | FALL | Daniel | Dicenzo | Rhode Island | 5 | 37 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 118 | Champ 8 | John | Engel | Lehigh (PA) | DEC | Andrew | Hesser | Oklahoma State | 3 | 48 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 118 | Consi 4 #2 | Samuel | Daniels | Tufts (MA) | FFT | Clarence ‘Clarry’ | Kasden | Brown (RI) | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 118 | Consi 4 #2 | Andrew | Hesser | Oklahoma State | DEC | Stanley | Ball | Michigan State | 1 | 46 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 126 | 1st | Bobby | Pearce | Oklahoma State | DEC | Lyle | Morford | Cornell (IA) | 2 | 34 | Ref | 0 | 0 | TA | |||
| 126 | 2nd | Lyle | Morford | Cornell (IA) | DEC | Joe | Fickel | Kansas State | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 126 | 3rd | Joe | Fickel | Kansas State | DEC | Arthur | Klein | Harvard (MA) | 2 | 56 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 126 | Champ 4 | Lyle | Morford | Cornell (IA) | DEC | Arthur | Klein | Harvard (MA) | 7 | 51 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 126 | Champ 4 | Bobby | Pearce | Oklahoma State | DEC | Joe | Fickel | Kansas State | 4 | 22 | Ref | 0 | 0 | TA | |||
| 126 | Champ 8 | Joe | Fickel | Kansas State | DEC | Hyman ‘Henry’ | Krakowsky | Case-Western Reserve (OH) | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | 1st | Dick | Cole | Iowa State | DEC | John | Devine | Oklahoma State | 1 | 53 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | 2nd | John | Devine | Oklahoma State | DEC | Harry | Byam | Michigan State | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | 3rd | Harry | Byam | Michigan State | FALL | Joseph | Woodard | Michigan | 5 | 45 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 135 | Champ 16 | Harry | Byam | Michigan State | FALL | James | Hastings | Tufts (MA) | 2 | 55 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 135 | Champ 16 | Dick | Cole | Iowa State | FALL | Francis | Quillan | Brown (RI) | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 135 | Champ 16 | John | Devine | Oklahoma State | DEC | Frank | Shaw | Lehigh (PA) | 8 | 23 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | Champ 4 | Dick | Cole | Iowa State | DEC | Finn | Eriksen | Northern Iowa | 1 | 55 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | Champ 4 | John | Devine | Oklahoma State | DEC | Stuart | Will Sr. | Virginia Military | 5 | 41 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | Champ 8 | Dick | Cole | Iowa State | FALL | Harry | Byam | Michigan State | 8 | 21 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 135 | Champ 8 | John | Devine | Oklahoma State | DEC | Joseph | Woodard | Michigan | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | Champ 8 | Finn | Eriksen | Northern Iowa | FALL | Herman | Shea | Massachusetts Tech | 3 | 44 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 135 | Champ 8 | Stuart | Will Sr. | Virginia Military | DEC | Bill | Anderson | Syracuse (NY) | 9 | 12 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | Consi 4 #1 | Harry | Byam | Michigan State | FALL | Francis | Quillan | Brown (RI) | 2 | 52 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 135 | Consi 4 #1 | Joseph | Woodard | Michigan | DEC | Frank | Shaw | Lehigh (PA) | 0 | 48 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | Consi 4 #2 | Harry | Byam | Michigan State | DEC | Finn | Eriksen | Northern Iowa | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 135 | Consi 4 #2 | Joseph | Woodard | Michigan | DEC | Stuart | Will Sr. | Virginia Military | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 145 | 1st | Bill | Doyle | Kansas State | DEC | Walter | Young | Oklahoma State | 1 | 48 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 145 | 2nd | Walter | Thomas | Iowa State | DEC | Walter | Young | Oklahoma State | 4 | 48 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 145 | Champ 16 | Bill | Doyle | Kansas State | FALL | Ernest | Jordan | Syracuse (NY) | 0 | 0 | 5:25 or 7:30? | ||||||
| 145 | Champ 16 | Bliss | Sargeant Jr. | Lafayette (PA) | FALL | George | Dewey Jr. | Virginia Military | 6 | 40 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 145 | Champ 16 | Walter | Thomas | Iowa State | FALL | Ben | Spiwak | Brown (RI) | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 145 | Champ 16 | Walter | Young | Oklahoma State | FALL | William ‘Harry’ | Dyer | Chicago (IL) | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 145 | Champ 4 | Bill | Doyle | Kansas State | FALL | William ‘Bud’ | Uanna | Tufts (MA) | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 145 | Champ 4 | Walter | Young | Oklahoma State | DEC | Robert | Garrigan | Northwestern (IL) | 5 | 56 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 145 | Champ 8 | Bill | Doyle | Kansas State | DEC | Walter | Thomas | Iowa State | 0 | 55 | Ref | 0 | 0 | TA | |||
| 145 | Champ 8 | Robert | Garrigan | Northwestern (IL) | DEC | Giff | Foley | Haverford (PA) | 7 | 17 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 145 | Champ 8 | William ‘Bud’ | Uanna | Tufts (MA) | FALL | Al | Rometo | Washington & Jefferson (P | 4 | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 145 | Champ 8 | Walter | Young | Oklahoma State | DEC | Bliss | Sargeant Jr. | Lafayette (PA) | 1 | 56 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 145 | Consi 4 #1 | Walter | Thomas | Iowa State | FALL | Ernest | Jordan | Syracuse (NY) | 1 | 39 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 145 | Consi 4 #2 | Walter | Thomas | Iowa State | FFT | William ‘Bud’ | Uanna | Tufts (MA) | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 155 | 1st | LeRoy | McGuirk | Oklahoma State | DEC | John | Richardson | Kansas State | 3 | 35 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | 2nd | John | Richardson | Kansas State | DEC | Bob | Miller | Northwestern (IL) | 1 | 48 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | 3rd | Orville | Orr | Northern Iowa | MFFT | Bob | Miller | Northwestern (IL) | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 155 | Champ 16 | Elmer | Carpenter | Syracuse (NY) | DEC | William | Robertson | Harvard (MA) | 7 | 40 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | Champ 16 | Dave | Coe | Springfield (MA) | DEC | Alexander | Pett | Wheaton (IL) | 6 | 58 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | Champ 16 | James | Fawcett | Rutgers (NJ) | FALL | Louis | Vassalotti | Massachusetts Tech | 1 | 35 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 155 | Champ 16 | LeRoy | McGuirk | Oklahoma State | DEC | Bob | Miller | Northwestern (IL) | 0 | 0 | Ref | ||||||
| 155 | Champ 4 | LeRoy | McGuirk | Oklahoma State | DEC | Max | Silverstein | Navy (MD) | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | Champ 4 | John | Richardson | Kansas State | DEC | Elmer | Carpenter | Syracuse (NY) | 9 | 38 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | Champ 8 | Elmer | Carpenter | Syracuse (NY) | DEC | James | Fawcett | Rutgers (NJ) | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | Champ 8 | LeRoy | McGuirk | Oklahoma State | DEC | Dave | Coe | Springfield (MA) | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | Champ 8 | John | Richardson | Kansas State | DEC | Orville | Orr | Northern Iowa | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | Champ 8 | Max | Silverstein | Navy (MD) | FALL | Ned | Brody | Brown (RI) | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 155 | Consi 4 #1 | Bob | Miller | Northwestern (IL) | DEC | Dave | Coe | Springfield (MA) | 1 | 29 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | Consi 4 #2 | Bob | Miller | Northwestern (IL) | DEC | Max | Silverstein | Navy (MD) | 1 | 30 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 155 | Consi 4 #2 | Orville | Orr | Northern Iowa | DEC | Elmer | Carpenter | Syracuse (NY) | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 165 | 1st | Jack | VanBebber | Oklahoma State | FALL | Meyer ‘Bill’ | Shanker | Lehigh (PA) | 4 | 25 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 165 | 2nd | Robert | Hess | Iowa State | DEC | Meyer ‘Bill’ | Shanker | Lehigh (PA) | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 165 | Champ 4 | Meyer ‘Bill’ | Shanker | Lehigh (PA) | DEC | Ray ‘RD’ | Nicholson | Case-Western Reserve (OH) | 0 | 56 | Ref | 0 | 0 | TA | |||
| 165 | Champ 4 | Jack | VanBebber | Oklahoma State | FALL | Robert | Hess | Iowa State | 7 | 25 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 165 | Champ 8 | Robert | Hess | Iowa State | FALL | Winship | Story | Tufts (MA) | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 165 | Champ 8 | Ray ‘RD’ | Nicholson | Case-Western Reserve (OH) | FALL | Stewart | Woodward | Brown (RI) | 2 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 165 | Champ 8 | Jack | VanBebber | Oklahoma State | DEC | Woods | Talman | Virginia Military | 4 | 35 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 165 | Consi 4 #2 | Robert | Hess | Iowa State | DEC | Woods | Talman | Virginia Military | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 175 | 1st | Conrad | Caldwell | Oklahoma State | DEC | Carl | Dougovito | Michigan | 3 | 52 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 175 | 2nd | Carl | Dougovito | Michigan | FALL | Henry | Batt | Springfield (MA) | 4 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 175 | 3rd | Wes | Brown Jr. | Northwestern (IL) | MFFT | Henry | Batt | Springfield (MA) | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 175 | Champ 4 | Conrad | Caldwell | Oklahoma State | DEC | Henry | Batt | Springfield (MA) | 9 | 19 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 175 | Champ 4 | Carl | Dougovito | Michigan | FALL | Wes | Brown Jr. | Northwestern (IL) | 9 | 34 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 450 | 1st | John ‘Jack’ | Riley | Northwestern (IL) | FALL | Harry | Fields | Haverford (PA) | 4 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 450 | 2nd | Harry | Fields | Haverford (PA) | FALL | Joe | McCrary | Oklahoma State | 5 | 53 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 450 | 3rd | Carl ‘Hugh’ | Errington | Kansas State | DEC | Joe | McCrary | Oklahoma State | 2 | 49 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 450 | Champ 4 | Harry | Fields | Haverford (PA) | FALL | Carl ‘Hugh’ | Errington | Kansas State | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 450 | Champ 4 | John ‘Jack’ | Riley | Northwestern (IL) | FALL | Thomas | Rae | Springfield (MA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 450 | Champ 8 | Carl ‘Hugh’ | Errington | Kansas State | DEC | Harold | Hirshberg | Lehigh (PA) | 3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| 450 | Champ 8 | Harry | Fields | Haverford (PA) | FALL | George | Teitz | Brown (RI) | 1 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 450 | Champ 8 | John ‘Jack’ | Riley | Northwestern (IL) | FALL | Joe | McCrary | Oklahoma State | 1 | 55 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 450 | Consi 4 #2 | Carl ‘Hugh’ | Errington | Kansas State | MFFT | George | Teitz | Brown (RI) | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 450 | Consi 4 #2 | Joe | McCrary | Oklahoma State | DEC | Thomas | Rae | Springfield (MA) | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | TA | ||||
| Weight | Round | W First | W Last | W School | Result | L First | L Last | L School | W Score | L Score | Minutes | Seconds | OT | W Seed | L Seed | Result Notes | Notes |
Final Individual Results
Final Team Scores
Unofficial Team Championship
Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
1st | Oklahoma State | 29 |
2nd | Iowa State | 17 |
3rd | Kansas State | 13 |
4th | Northern Iowa | 8 |
5th | Lehigh | 7 |
6th | Northwestern (IL) | 5 |
6th | Michigan State | 5 |
6th | Michigan | 5 |
9th | Cornell (IA) | 3 |
Team Table
1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oklahoma State | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
Kansas State | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Iowa State | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Lehigh (PA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Northwestern (IL) | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Northern Iowa | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Cornell (IA) | 1 | 1 | ||
Haverford (PA) | 1 | 1 | ||
Michigan | 1 | 1 | ||
Michigan State | 1 | 1 |
Stats/Leaderboard
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Awards
No awards given.
Rules
Weights: 8 (118, 126, 135, 145, 155, 165, 175, UNL)
Type: Single Elimination
Placers: 3
Seeds: Up to 2
Consi Qualifiers: Only those who lost to the champion may wrestle for a place
Runner-Up: True 2nd; The wrestler that loses the finals will have to beat the winner of the bouts between all other wresters losing to the champ.
3rd: If the wrestler who lost in the finals also loses the True 2nd match, then he will get 3rd. However, if he wins, then the wrestler he beat will have to wrestle the winner of the bouts between the losers to the 2nd place finisher.
Championship Bouts: 10 Minutes
OT: 2x 3 minute periods – Both start in referee’s position
Takedown: If a takedown occurs within the first 2 minutes then the bout will be a straight 10 minutes.
No Takedown: If no takedown or fall occurs in the first 2 minutes then the last 8 minutes will be split into 4 minutes periods with each wrestler starting in the top position at the beginning of each period.
Fall: In the first 4 minute period, if a fall occurs, then only that period is ended. The second 4 minute period will occur with the other wrestler having the chance to earn a faster fall.
Consolation Bouts: 6 minutes (3x 2 minute periods)
OT: If no winner can be declared by the ref then extra periods are wrestled.
Fall: 2 seconds
No Fall Winner: If there is no fall at the end of the bout then the ref will award the bout to the wrestler that shows the greater wrestling ability & aggressiveness when that wrestler has at least 1 minute of riding-time advantage.
OT/Consi Winner: The ref will still declare the winner, but 1 minute of riding-time is not required.
Team Scoring:
No Team Scores