Word: lonergan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard completed its best wrestling season in years Saturday in the IAB by whipping Yale 21-11, but Eli captain Mike Lonergan took away some of the luster by ruining Tack Chace's undefeated season...
...Crimson put the meet away by winning the first seven matches in a row, all by incredibly lopsided decisions. But Yale rallied to take the final three bouts, turning the rout into a retreat. And the last bout was Lonergan's 4-2 win over Chace, who had put away all eight of his heavyweight opponents prior to facing the Eli captain...
...questionable call by the referee contributed to Chace's downfall. Trailing Lonergan 1-0 in the last period. Chace reversed the Yale wrestler and seemed to be a hair away from a pin. But Lonergan twisted back into a reversal of his own, and the referee refused to award Chace the three-point near-fall or two-point predicament that he seemed to deserve. A point's worth of riding time gave Lonergan the 4-2 decision...
...meet will be the last for the man who suddenly turned into one of the best heavyweights in the East this year: Tack Chace. The towering senior has beaten all eight of his adversaries, and though Yale captain Mike Lonergan won't be a pushover, Chace should make him number nine...
...Besides Lonergan, the Elis' best wrestlers are Tip Himes at 177 and Fred Southwick at 160. Ken Haltenhoff, who finished fourth in the Nationals last year as a sophomore, quit the team earlier in the season...