1935 NCAA Championships
Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 8 weights.
The 1935 NCAA championships had eight weights and 155 bouts. Oklahoma State won the team title with 36 points; Oklahoma was second with 18. Oklahoma State had three of the eight individual champions.
Most falls in the least time: Frank Lewis, Oklahoma State · 4 falls in 16:54
Individual champions
| Weight | Champion | Program | Title bout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | Rex Peery · 3rd titleOklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Fall 5:52 over George Ledbetter, Illinois |
| 126 | Ross Flood · 3rd titleOklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Fall 6:53 over Jack Gott, Southwestern Oklahoma |
| 135 | Vernon SisneyOklahoma | Oklahoma | Dec TA 1:32 over Ralph Rasor, Oklahoma State |
| 145 | Wayne Martin · 2nd titleOklahoma | Oklahoma | Dec TA 5:36 over Jack McIlvoy, Illinois |
| 155 | Frank LewisOklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Fall 4:22 over Joe Kalpin, Oklahoma |
| 165 | Howard 'Red' JohnstonPenn State | Penn State | Dec TA 5:13 over Port Robertson, Oklahoma |
| 175 | Ralph SilversteinIllinois | Illinois | Dec TA 3:14 over Orville Nickerson, Southwestern Oklahoma |
| Unlimited | Charles McDanielIndiana (IN) | Indiana (IN) | Dec TA 3:28 over Hugo Bonino, Washington & Lee (VA) |
Team standings
Scoring details →Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1935
Head coach for the 1935 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma State | Ed Gallagher | 36 |
| 2 | Oklahoma | Paul V. Keen | 18 |
| T3 | Illinois | H.E. Kenney | 15 |
| T3 | Indiana (IN) | Billy Thom | 15 |
| T5 | Lehigh (PA) | Billy Sheridan | 8 |
| T5 | Penn State | Charlie Speidel | 8 |
| T7 | Cornell College (IA) | Dick Barker | 6 |
| T7 | Iowa | Mike Howard | 6 |
| T7 | Southwestern Oklahoma | Not yet established | 6 |
| 10 | Washington & Lee (VA) | Archie Mathis | 5 |
| 11 | Central Oklahoma | Ray Swartz | 4 |
| 12 | Northeastern State (OK) | Bill Bynum acting | 3 |
| 13 | Virginia Military | Frank Carek | 2 |
| T14 | Columbia (NY) | Gus Peterson | 1 |
| T14 | Haverford (PA) | Walton Forstall | 1 |
| T14 | Ohio State | Bernard Mooney | 1 |
| T14 | St. Lawrence (NY) | Roy Bennett Clogston | 1 |
25 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings
* Calculated from the bouts under the 1935 scoring rules.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14* | West Virginia | Albert Gwynne | 1* |
| 19* | Army (NY) | Tom Jenkins | 0* |
| 19* | Brown (RI) | Richard Cole | 0* |
| 19* | City College (NY) | Joseph Sapora | 0* |
| 19* | Davidson (NC) | Doc Unger | 0* |
| 19* | East Stroudsburg (PA) | Ralph Mitterling | 0* |
| 19* | Franklin & Marshall (PA) | Charles William Mayser | 0* |
| 19* | Gettysburg (PA) | E.O. von Schwerdtner | 0* |
| 19* | Harvard (MA) | C.J. Gallagher | 0* |
| 19* | Kansas | James Cox | 0* |
| 19* | Kansas State | B.R. Patterson | 0* |
| 19* | Kent State (OH) | Joe Begala | 0* |
| 19* | Lafayette (PA) | Not yet established | 0* |
| 19* | Maryville (TN) | Bob Thrower | 0* |
| 19* | Massachusetts Tech | Jay Ricks | 0* |
| 19* | Michigan | Cliff Keen | 0* |
| 19* | Michigan State | Fendley Collins | 0* |
| 19* | Northern Iowa | Dave McCuskey | 0* |
| 19* | Princeton (NJ) | Jimmy Reed | 0* |
| 19* | Rochester Tech (NY) | Mark Ellingson | 0* |
| 19* | Rutgers (NJ) | Wilfred E. Cann | 0* |
| 19* | Springfield (MA) | Erastus W. Pennock | 0* |
| 19* | Temple (PA) | J. Lloyd Bohn | 0* |
| 19* | Tufts (MA) | Samuel Ruggeri | 0* |
| 19* | Ursinus (PA) | Not yet established | 0* |
Cite this page: “1935 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1935/