Joseph Garcia

By school

As a wrestler

Joe Garcia wrestled for Illinois at four NCAA championships, 1946–1949, and went 5–5. Garcia lost in the quarterfinal in 1946, 1947 and 1949, and in round 4 in 1948.

Joe Garcia's full wrestler record, every bout →

Coach and wrestler matched from Latino American Wrestling Experience: Over 100 years of wrestling heritage in the United States, National Wrestling Hall of Fame (authored by Dr. Jorge Iber and Dr. Lee Maril) (Chapter 'JOSEPH GARCIA' (banner: 'Wrestled 1945-1949, University of Illinois, 145lbs // 155lbs'), PDF page 18 (printed page 18), the second half of the first paragraph and the whole second paragraph, from 'Upon the end of the conflict' through 'between 1950 and 1978;'. Read visually on the rendered page; text also confirmed against pdftotext output of page 18 (check_excerpt.py cannot search a compressed PDF).).

How these are counted

• NCAA tournaments are the championship years in which Joseph Garcia 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.