Word: picketts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This, by all rights, should be the year. Coach Bob Pickett has eight lettermen returning, and will start an untested wrestler at only one position. His squad is strong, healthy, and experienced...
This year, Pickett seems to have the material. He has Ed Franquemont at 153 pounds, a smooth, sly junior who lost only one match last year, finished third in the Eastern Intercollegiates, and was by far the team's best wrestler...
...Pickett will start a pair of sophomores, and in large part, the team's chances depend on them. Paul Padlak, the captain of last year's freshman team, will start it 160. Padlak had to wrestle as high as heavyweight last year, but still compiled a 7-1 record and finished second in the Freshman Easterns at 147. He has displaced letterman Dave Worcester...
...match that will make the season, this year as always, will be Cornell. The Big Red wins Ivy League championships with numbing regularity, and Pickett, head coach since 1950, has never beaten them. Harvard's particular albatross is to have to wrestle Cornell immediately after Christmas vacation without the steadying influence of a match or two against some of the League's pushovers...
...Pickett picked Columbia as the team's most serious league rival after Cornell, and predicted that Princeton, blessed with a good crop of sophomores, will be considerably improved over last year's sixth place finish. Penn, Yale, and Brown will fight for the crumbs...