1942 NCAA Championships
Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 8 weights.
The 1942 NCAA championships had eight weights and 98 bouts. Oklahoma State won the team title with 31 points; Michigan State was second with 26. Oklahoma State had four of the eight individual champions.
Most falls in the least time: Charley Ridenour, Penn State · 3 falls in 13:47
Individual champions
| Weight | Champion | Program | Title bout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 121 | Merle Jennings (1) · 2nd titleMichigan State | Michigan State | Dec 3–2 over Malcolm 'Mickey' McDonald (3), Purdue (IN) |
| 128 | Burl 'Bo' Jennings (1) · 2nd titleMichigan State | Michigan State | Dec 5–3 over Sidney Marks (3), Oklahoma State |
| 136 | Bill Maxwell (1)Michigan State | Michigan State | Fall 5:16 over Fred Bishop, Cornell College (IA) |
| 145 | David Arndt (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Dec 18–5 over Manly Johnson (2), Michigan |
| 155 | Vernon Logan (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Dec 9–3 over Ted Seabrooke (2), Illinois |
| 165 | Virgil Smith (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Dec 2–1 over Bill Carmichael (3), Navy (MD) |
| 175 | Dick DiBatista (1) · 2nd titlePennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Dec 5–5 (tiebreaker) over Leon Martin (3), Northern Iowa |
| Unlimited | Loyd Arms (1)Oklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Dec 7–5 over Walter Porowski, Kent State (OH) |
Team standings
Scoring details →Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1942
Head coach for the 1942 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma State | Art Griffith | 31 |
| 2 | Michigan State | Fendley Collins | 26 |
| 3 | Penn State | Charlie Speidel | 10 |
| 4 | Michigan | Cliff Keen | 8 |
| T5 | Kent State (OH) | Joe Begala | 7 |
| T5 | Navy (MD) | Ray Swartz | 7 |
| T5 | Purdue (IN) | Claude Reeck | 7 |
| T8 | Illinois | H.E. Kenney | 6 |
| T8 | Pennsylvania | W. Austin Bishop | 6 |
| 10 | Northern Iowa | Dave McCuskey | 5 |
| 11 | Cornell College (IA) | Paul K. Scott | 4 |
| T12 | Kansas State | B.R. Patterson | 2 |
| T12 | Nebraska | Jerry Adam | 2 |
| 14 | Princeton (NJ) | Jimmy Reed | 1 |
9 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings
* Calculated from the bouts under the 1942 scoring rules.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15* | Alfred State (NY) | Not yet established | 0* |
| 15* | Denver (CO) | Granville Johnson | 0* |
| 15* | Illinois State | Eugene L. Hill | 0* |
| 15* | Iowa State | Hugo Otopalik | 0* |
| 15* | Ohio | Thor Olson | 0* |
| 15* | Rutgers (NJ) | Wilfred E. Cann and Fred E. Shepard co-heads | 0* |
| 15* | San Jose State (CA) | Not yet established | 0* |
| 15* | Wesleyan (CT) | Norm Daniels | 0* |
| 15* | Wyoming | Everett Lantz | 0* |
Cite this page: “1942 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1942/