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40th Annual EIWA Championships
Wrestling Tournament
@ Grace Hall (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
Friday-Saturday, March 10-11, 1944

Leading Contenders in Easterns
Leading Contenders in Easterns
The 40th annual Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships to be held at Grace Hall Friday and Saturday of this week are unique in that this contest is one of few major intercollegiate sporting events still being held in spite of wartime difficulties. SOURCE: Brown and White, Lehigh University, March 8, 1944.

Album: General

Leading Contenders in Easterns Bernard Tops Land To Gain 175 Crown Bill 'Zulu' Bernard, the new 175 pound king Roy Zackey, Ted Niewenhaus

Varsity (Level: Collegiate, Style: Folkstyle)
Participating Teams
Columbia University [NY], Cornell University [NY], Dartmouth College [NH], Lehigh University [PA], Pennsylvania State University [PA], Princeton University [NJ], U.S. Military Academy (Army) [NY], U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD], University of Pennsylvania [PA]
Team Final
1. U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]  32 points
2. U.S. Military Academy (Army) [NY]  26
3. Lehigh University [PA]  15
University of Pennsylvania [PA]  15
5. Dartmouth College [NH]  7
6. Pennsylvania State University [PA]  6
7. Princeton University [NJ]  5
8. Columbia University [NY]  2
Cornell University [NY]  2
Award Winners
Outstanding Wrestler Award: Malcolm MacDonald (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD], 121 lbs)
Championship Final (1st)
121 lbs: Malcolm MacDonald (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]) > Fred McNair (Cornell University [NY]), FALL 2:59
128 lbs: Fred Barkovitch (University of Pennsylvania [PA]) > Howard Blum (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]), FALL 5:15
136 lbs: Jack Sullivan (University of Pennsylvania [PA]) > Ray Oliver (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]), FALL 8:57
145 lbs: Josh Henson (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]) > George Fee (U.S. Military Academy (Army) [NY]), DEC 14-7
155 lbs: John Hale (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]) > Ted Niewenhous (Lehigh University [PA]), DEC 4-2
165 lbs: Dave Wood (U.S. Military Academy (Army) [NY]) > Malcolm Lowe (Princeton University [NJ]), FALL 7:28
175 lbs: Bill Bernard (Lehigh University [PA]) > Bob Land (U.S. Military Academy (Army) [NY]), FALL 3:48
HWT: Joe Stanowicz (U.S. Military Academy (Army) [NY]) > Gordon Steele (Cornell University [NY]), FALL 2:28
Consolation Final (3rd)
155 lbs: Gale Stockdale (U.S. Military Academy (Army) [NY]), DEC 3-2
165 lbs: Clarence Creel (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]), FALL 1:59
175 lbs: Peter Fuller (Dartmouth College [NH]), FFT 
True Second (2nd)
121 lbs: Robert Lowrie (Pennsylvania State University [PA]) > Fred McNair (Cornell University [NY]), DEC 2-1
128 lbs: Howard Blum (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]) > Robert Bach (Dartmouth College [NH]), DEC 3-2
136 lbs: Roy Zackey (Lehigh University [PA]) > Ray Oliver (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]), DEC 2-1
145 lbs: George Fee (U.S. Military Academy (Army) [NY]) > Bill Haydock (University of Pennsylvania [PA]), DEC 3-2
HWT: John Coppedge (U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) [MD]) > Gordon Steele (Cornell University [NY]), FALL 4:05

Attachments
Brackets (PDF)
Lehigh Entertains E.I.W.A. (Bethlehem, Mar 8) (PDF)



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