1940 NCAA Championships

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

The 1940 NCAA championships had eight weights and 133 bouts. Oklahoma State won the team title with 24 points; Indiana (IN) was second with 14. Oklahoma State had two of the eight individual champions.

8weights

8individual champions

133bouts

30wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Leon 'Red' Reynard, Kansas State · 2 falls in 12:23

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Individual champions

1940 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
121	Robert Antonacci (2)Indiana (IN)	Indiana (IN)	Dec (no score) over Delbert Jensen, Northern Iowa
128	Harold Byrd (2)Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Dec (no score) over Dale Hanson (1), Minnesota
136	Al Whitehurst (1)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec (no score) over Joe Roman (2), Indiana (IN)
145	Harold Masem (2)Lehigh (PA)	Lehigh (PA)	Dec (no score) over Bill Combs (1), Michigan
155	Vernon Logan (1)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec (no score) over Harland Danner (2), Michigan
165	Gene Grenard (2)Colorado State	Colorado State	Fall 7:47 over Chauncey McDaniel (1), Indiana (IN)
175	Don Nichols (1)Michigan	Michigan	Dec (no score) over Garnett 'Tuffy' Inman (3), Indiana (IN)
Unlimited	George DownesOhio State	Ohio State	Dec (no score) over John Sikich (2), Illinois

Team standings

Scoring details →

Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1940

Head coach for the 1940 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1940 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Oklahoma State	Ed Gallagher	24
2	Indiana (IN)	Billy Thom	14
3	Michigan	Cliff Keen	10
T4	Colorado State	Julius Wagner	7
T4	Lehigh (PA)	Billy Sheridan	7
T4	Ohio State	Bernard Mooney	7
T7	Minnesota	Dave Bartelma	6
T7	Northern Iowa	Dave McCuskey	6
T9	Iowa State	Hugo Otopalik	5
T9	Oklahoma	D.C. Matthews	5
T11	Franklin & Marshall (PA)	Charles William Mayser	4
T11	Illinois	H.E. Kenney	4
T13	Kansas State	B.R. Patterson	2
T13	Kent State (OH)	Joe Begala	2
T15	Dubuque (IA)	William C. Schulz	1
T15	Lafayette (PA)	C.J. Gallagher	1
T15	Michigan State	Fendley Collins	1
T15	Purdue (IN)	Claude Reeck	1
T15	Southwestern Oklahoma	Marion Surbeck	1
T15	Syracuse (NY)	Pop Davison	1
T15	Temple (PA)	J. Lloyd Bohn	1

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

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1940 scoring rules.

1940 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach
21*	Appalachian State (NC)	R.W. Watkins
21*	City College (NY)	Joseph Sapora
21*	Cornell College (IA)	Dick Barker
21*	Denver (CO)	Granville Johnson
21*	Harvard (MA)	Pat O. Johnson
21*	Nebraska	Jerry Adam
21*	Northwestern (IL)	Wesley Brown
21*	Ohio	Thor Olson
21*	Penn State	Charlie Speidel
21*	Rutgers (NJ)	Fred E. Shepard
21*	San Jose State (CA)	Eugene B. Grattan
21*	St. Lawrence (NY)	Kenneth L'Hommedieu
21*	Washington & Lee (VA)	Archie Mathis
21*	West Virginia	Albert Gwynne
21*	Wyoming	Everett Lantz

Cite this page: “1940 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1940/