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...Fenton is pretty clearly the top wrestler in New England, so the match realistically edde on Sal's event," said...
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...
...When a wrestler does win in Stillwater, he becomes an instant campus hero. The school comes down with "wrastlin' " fever before big matches. On the evening of a showdown with powerful Iowa State recently, the beer joints were crammed with students fueling up on draught Coors. By match time, every available space was filled in 7,100-seat Gallagher Hall-named after former O.S.U. Wrestling Coach Edward Clark Gallagher, father of the modern college sport. Once the Cowboys were introduced and started whipping their opponents, the chanting crowd exploded. Right through the final contest between 290-lb. Freshman Jimmy...
Dartmouth's 167-pound Kevin Young, the team's best wrestler, edged one of the Crimson's best, Bruce Johnson, in a close decision. Johnson came on strong in the closing minute but Young did a good job in staving off the threat...
Ferguson started roping chickens and cats at home in Tahlequah, Okla., when he was three. The son of a clothing retailer who was once a steer wrestler himself, Ferguson later attended California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo "because it was a good rodeo school." With him in the saddle, Cal Poly won the national intercollegiate championship three out of four years - and for the period 1967-72, Ferguson...