Head coach
Bill Koll
Bill Koll was head coach of Penn State, Northern Iowa and Cornell College (IA) at 26 NCAA championships, 1952–1978. Koll's teams finished in the top four once. Koll's wrestlers won six individual titles and earned 32 All-American places.
By school
| School | NCAA tournaments | Team titles | Top four | Top ten | Champions | All-Americans | Entries | Wrestlers | Record | Falls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn State | 1965–1978 (14) | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 94 | 51 | 165–129 | 21 |
| Northern Iowa | 1953–1964 (11) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 50 | 35 | 62–63 | 6 |
| Cornell College (IA) | 1952 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2–6 | 1 |
- Another head coach at Northern Iowa: 1958.
As a wrestler
Bill Koll wrestled for Northern Iowa at three NCAA championships, 1946–1948, and went 12–0. Koll won three titles, at 145 lb in 1946 and 1947, and at 147 lb in 1948.
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Northern Iowa | 147 | No seed listed | 1st | 5–0 | 5 bouts |
| 1947 | Northern Iowa | 145 | 1 | 1st | 4–0 | 4 bouts |
| 1946 | Northern Iowa | 145 | No seed listed | 1st | 3–0 | 3 bouts |
Bill Koll's full wrestler record, every bout →
Coach and wrestler matched from Koll, William, UNI Special Collections & University Archives (Biography body, paragraph beginning "Koll in 1948 Koll began his wrestling career in high school" (after the coaching paragraph)).
How these are counted
- NCAA tournaments are the championship years in which Bill Koll was the established head coach of a team with entrants. They are not years of employment; there were no championships in 1943–45 or 2020.
- A year inside the span with no established coach is listed but not counted. A year with two head coaches counts in full for both.
- Team titles are official NCAA titles from the published standings (1928, 1931 and 1933 have none). Top four and top ten come from the same standings.
- Entries count each wrestler once per tournament; All-Americans are counted as each era awarded them; wins and losses include forfeit, default and disqualification results; falls exclude forfeits.
- The head coach for each year, with sources, is on that year's program page. Report a correction.
Cite this page: “Bill Koll, head coach”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/coaches/ch_b70dac6f1a7144ce/bill-koll/