1941 NCAA Championships

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

The 1941 NCAA championships had eight weights and 160 bouts. Oklahoma State won the team title with 37 points; Michigan State was second with 26. Oklahoma State had four of the eight individual champions.

8weights

8individual champions

160bouts

35wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Bill Maxwell, Michigan State · 3 falls in 20:09

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Individual champions

1941 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
121	Merle Jennings (3)Michigan State	Michigan State	Dec 9–5 over Calvin Mehlhorn (1), Oklahoma State
128	Burl 'Bo' Jennings (4)Michigan State	Michigan State	Dec 16–6 over Mike Slepecky, Kent State (OH)
136	Al Whitehurst (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 6–2 over Bill Maxwell (2), Michigan State
145	David Arndt (1)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 8–3 over Vernon Hassman, Northern Iowa
155	Earl VanBebber (1)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 3–1 over Leland Porter (3), Kansas State
165	Virgil Smith (2)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 11–0 over John Roberts (1), Wisconsin
175	Dick DiBatista (3)Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	Dec 5–4 over Al Crawford (1), Appalachian State (NC)
Unlimited	Leonard 'Butch' Levy (2)Minnesota	Minnesota	Dec 5–2 over Larry Pickett (4), Yale (CT)

Team standings

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Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1941

Head coach for the 1941 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1941 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Oklahoma State	Art Griffith	37
2	Michigan State	Fendley Collins	26
3	Minnesota	Dave Bartelma	12
4	Yale (CT)	Edward D. O’Donnell	8
T5	Appalachian State (NC)	R.W. Watkins	7
T5	Kent State (OH)	Joe Begala	7
T5	Wisconsin	George Martin	7
T8	Kansas State	B.R. Patterson	6
T8	Pennsylvania	W. Austin Bishop	6
T10	Franklin & Marshall (PA)	Charles William Mayser	5
T10	Iowa	Mike Howard	5
T10	Northern Iowa	Dave McCuskey	5
T13	Illinois	H.E. Kenney	3
T13	Iowa State	Hugo Otopalik	3
T13	Lafayette (PA)	C.J. Gallagher	3
T13	Penn State	Charlie Speidel	3
T17	Dubuque (IA)	William C. Schulz	2
T17	Michigan	Cliff Keen	2
T17	Ohio State	Bernard Mooney	2
T17	Temple (PA)	J. Lloyd Bohn	2
T21	Rutgers (NJ)	Fred E. Shepard	1
T21	Springfield (MA)	Erastus W. Pennock	1
T21	Virginia Military	Sam Barnes	1
T21	Wyoming	Everett Lantz	1

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

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1941 scoring rules.

1941 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
21*	Cornell College (IA)	Dick Barker	1*
24*	City College (NY)	Joseph Sapora	0*
24*	Colorado State	Julius Wagner	0*
24*	Harvard (MA)	Pat O. Johnson	0*
24*	Idaho	Denny Hess	0*
24*	Indiana (IN)	Billy Thom	0*
24*	Lehigh (PA)	Billy Sheridan	0*
24*	Lock Haven (PA)	Henry Blake	0*
24*	Nebraska	Jerry Adam	0*
24*	Northern Colorado	John Hancock	0*
24*	Princeton (NJ)	Jimmy Reed	0*
24*	St. Lawrence (NY)	Not yet established	0*
24*	Washington & Lee (VA)	Archie Mathis	0*
24*	West Virginia	Albert Gwynne	0*

Cite this page: “1941 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1941/