1950 NCAA Championships

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

The 1950 NCAA championships had eight weights and 147 bouts. Northern Iowa won the team title with 30 points; Purdue (IN) was second with 16. Northern Iowa had three of the eight individual champions.

8weights

8individual champions

147bouts

13wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: James LaRock, Ithaca (NY) · 2 falls in 8:35

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Individual champions

1950 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
121	Tony GizoniWaynesburg (PA)	Waynesburg (PA)	Dec 7–6 over Arnold Plaza (1), Purdue (IN)
128	Joe Patacsil (3)Purdue (IN)	Purdue (IN)	Dec 3–2 over Walter Romanowski (4), Cornell College (IA)
136	Lowell Lange (1) · 3rd titleCornell College (IA)	Cornell College (IA)	Dec (no score) over Floyd Oglesby, Northern Iowa
145	Keith Young (1) · 2nd titleNorthern Iowa	Northern Iowa	Dec 5–2 over Charles 'Jack' Moreno, Purdue (IN)
155	Bill Nelson (1) · 3rd titleNorthern Iowa	Northern Iowa	Dec 8–1 over Ken Hunte (2), Syracuse (NY)
165	Bill Smith (1) · 2nd titleNorthern Iowa	Northern Iowa	Dec 10–7 over James LaRock (3), Ithaca (NY)
175	Joe Scarpello (1) · 2nd titleIowa	Iowa	Dec 13–4 over George Gebhardt (3), Syracuse (NY)
Unlimited	Dick Hutton (1) · 3rd titleOklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec (no score) over Fred Stoeker (3), Northern Iowa

Team standings

Scoring details →

Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1950

Head coach for the 1950 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1950 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Northern Iowa	Dave McCuskey	30
2	Purdue (IN)	Claude Reeck	16
3	Cornell College (IA)	Paul K. Scott	14
4	Syracuse (NY)	Joe McDaniel	10
5	Oklahoma State	Art Griffith	9
6	Iowa	Mike Howard	7
T7	Ithaca (NY)	Clyde E. Cole	6
T7	Waynesburg (PA)	Raymond Murdock	6
9	Penn State	Charlie Speidel	5
T10	Illinois	Glenn Law	3
T10	Navy (MD)	Ray Swartz	3
T12	Michigan State	Fendley Collins	2
T12	Oklahoma	Port Robertson	2
T12	Wheaton (IL)	George Olson	2
T12	Wyoming	Everett Lantz	2
T16	Auburn (AL)	Arnold W. Umbach	1
T16	Lock Haven (PA)	Hubert Jack	1

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

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1950 scoring rules.

1950 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach
18*	Brigham Young (UT)	Reed Nilsen
18*	California-Berkeley	Henry Stone
18*	Colorado	Ray Jenkins
18*	Colorado (College)	Not yet established
18*	Franklin & Marshall (PA)	W. Roy Phillips
18*	Indiana (IN)	Charlie McDaniel
18*	Iowa State	Hugo Otopalik
18*	Kansas State	Leon Reynard
18*	Minnesota	Dave Bartelma
18*	Nebraska	B.R. Patterson
18*	Nebraska Omaha	Allie Morrison
18*	North Carolina	Chuck Quinlan
18*	Northern Colorado	John Hancock
18*	Ohio State	Casey Fredericks
18*	Oregon State	Bob Antonacci
18*	Springfield (MA)	Raymond E. Sparks
18*	Wartburg (IA)	Melvin Nelson
18*	Washington State	William Tomaras
18*	West Virginia	Steve Harrick
18*	Wisconsin	George Martin

Cite this page: “1950 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1950/