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...wrestler with a 12-1 record and 10 pins. He settles into the heavier of the two slots this time, pushing Fred Smith (2-7-1) out of his starting job. Sal's only loss last season came at the hands of Yale's Joe Cooper when the Crimson grappler was forced by the team score to gamble...
...Cusumano, who wrestled at 134 pounds, was named the "Most Improved" grappler as he posted a 3-1-2 mark while Bixby received the annual plaque awarded to the wrestler who shows the most intestinal fortitude during the course of the season. Doug Mason was honored with the junior varsity equivalent of Bixby's plaque...
Smith triumphed in ten of 12 bouts this year and probably is the Harvard grappler with the best chance to make it to Oklahoma. "There's no other way to put it," Lee said. "When Kip was a freshman, he was a clumsy oaf. He went 1-16 that first year. But he's worked like hell and improved and now he can beat practically everyone he faces, everyone but the really fine athletes...
...Eastern tournament heavyweight class will be short on really super athletes, matmen like Princeton's John Seftnor, who is the man to beat. With any luck, Smith ought to finish second and could even nip the Tiger grappler if he can take advantage of Seftnor's one weakness. The Princeton heavyweight once broke his neck playing football. If he gets in trouble, he is incapable of bridging to avoid a pin. The only problem is, how do you get him on his back to begin with...
Also wrestling at this weight is Princeton's Keith Ely, who made All-Ivy last year as a freshman and will probably make the second team this year behind the Yale grappler who administered D'Agostino's lone loss when Sal was forced by the team score to gamble for a pin. Ely and D'Agostino did not meet because the Crimson matman missed the Princeton mat with a rib injury...