1930 NCAA Championships

Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 8 weights.

The 1930 NCAA championships had eight weights and 96 bouts. Oklahoma State won the team title with 27 points; Illinois was second with 14. Oklahoma State had three of the eight individual champions.

8weights

8individual champions

96bouts

19wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Earl McCready, Oklahoma State · 3 falls in 6:18

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Individual champions

1930 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
115	Joe Sapora · 2nd titleIllinois	Illinois	Medical forfeit over Marvin Leach, Oklahoma
125	Laurance Mantooth · 2nd titleOklahoma	Oklahoma	Dec TA 1:49 over Lyle Morford, Cornell College (IA)
135	Hugh LinnIowa State	Iowa State	Dec TA 5:08 over Louis Bauerle, Illinois
145	Hardie LewisOklahoma	Oklahoma	Dec TA 1:33 over William 'Harry' Dyer, Chicago (IL)
155	James 'Otto' KellyMichigan	Michigan	Dec TA 6:46 over Phil Berry, Oklahoma
165	Jack VanBebber · 2nd titleOklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec TA 7:40 over Sam Church, Kansas
175	Conrad Caldwell · 2nd titleOklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec TA 0:58 over Von Robbins, Missouri
Unlimited	Earl McCready · 3rd titleOklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Fall 2:17 over Lloyd Burdick, Illinois

Team standings

Scoring details →

Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1930

Head coach for the 1930 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1930 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Oklahoma State	Ed Gallagher	27
2	Illinois	H.E. Kenney	14
3	Oklahoma	Paul V. Keen	12
4	Iowa State	Hugo Otopalik	7
5	Michigan	Cliff Keen	6
T6	Kansas State	B.R. Patterson	5
T6	Massachusetts Tech	Jay Ricks	5
T8	Central Oklahoma	Pat Murphy	4
T8	Cornell College (IA)	Dick Barker	4
T8	Kansas	Leon Bauman	4
T8	Ohio State	Bernard Mooney	4
T12	Chicago (IL)	Spyros K. Vorres	2
T12	Harvard (MA)	C.J. Gallagher	2
T14	Indiana (IN)	Billy Thom	1
T14	Michigan State	Fendley Collins	1
T14	Missouri	Charles Fisher	1
T14	Northwestern (IL)	Orion Stuteville	1
T14	Rochester Tech (NY)	Mark Ellingson	1

11 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1930 scoring rules.

1930 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach
16*	Brown (RI)	Frank Herrick
16*	Case-Western Reserve (OH)	Claude B. Sharer
16*	Kent State (OH)	Joe Begala
16*	Lafayette (PA)	Not yet established
16*	Penn State	Charlie Speidel
16*	Syracuse (NY)	Pop Davison
16*	Tufts (MA)	Samuel Ruggeri
16*	Virginia Military	Theodore Hesmer
16*	Virginia Tech	George Herring
16*	Waynesburg (PA)	J. M. Miller
16*	West Virginia	Steve Harrick

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