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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a Harvard loss at 134, captain Carl Biello look to the mat to help fill in the injury hampered middle weight divisions. Biello, competing despite a neck injury that has kept him a spectatoe for over a month turned in a surprising 9-3 victory to even the match...
Gold Medal. Armed with a sizable travel budget and the inducement of 19 wrestling scholarships, O.S.U. Coach Tommy Chesbro has recruited in schools from Virginia to California. Last year he ended up with four of the nation's ten best high school wrestlers. Chesbro, once a State mat star, does not limit his scouting to the U.S. Two former O.S.U. grapplers now living in Japan keep him posted on blue-chip prospects there. For good reason: probably the finest wrestler in Oklahoma State's history was Yojiro Uetake, a two-time Olympic gold-medal winner for Japan...
...only three or four points, depending on how much he dominated the contest. "A football player may go out and play a lousy game," says Chesbro, "but if the team wins big, he's still a hero. Not here. Every time a kid gets out on the mat, everybody knows whether he won or lost...
Despite an already certain Columbia victory, tremendous effort was registered by Sal D'Agostino at 190 as he came around from a twenty point disadvantage to pin his opponent Columbia freshman Mat Peckman, formerly a high-school All-American...
Saturday's 21-19 victory over the highly-touted Pennsylvania Quakers clearly gave legitimacy to the Crimson's claim of prowess on the mat, as heavyweight Kip Smith decisioned his Quaker opponent in the final bout to secure the win for Harvard...