1951 NCAA Championships

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

The 1951 NCAA championships had eight weights and 174 bouts. Oklahoma won the team title with 24 points; Oklahoma State was second with 23.

8weights

8individual champions

174bouts

29wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Bill Borders, Oklahoma · 3 falls in 12:51

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Individual champions

1951 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
123	Tony Gizoni (1) · 2nd titleWaynesburg (PA)	Waynesburg (PA)	Dec 7–6 over Bill Borders (2), Oklahoma
130	Walter Romanowski (4)Cornell College (IA)	Cornell College (IA)	Dec 5–4 over Harold 'Hal' Moore (2), Oklahoma State
137	George Layman (3)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 7–4 over Jay 'Tommy' Evans (1), Oklahoma
147	Keith Young (1) · 3rd titleNorthern Iowa	Northern Iowa	Dec 5–3 over Don Frey, Penn State
157	Phil SmithOklahoma	Oklahoma	Dec 10–2 over Fred McLean, Ohio State
167	Gene Gibbons (1)Michigan State	Michigan State	Fall 7:10 over George Graveson Jr. (2), Yale (CT)
177	Grover Rains (1)Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State	Dec 3–2 over Mike Rubino Sr. (2), Penn State
Unlimited	Brad Glass (1)Princeton (NJ)	Princeton (NJ)	Dec (no score) over Homer Barr (3), Penn State

Team standings

Scoring details →

Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1951

Head coach for the 1951 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1951 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Oklahoma	Port Robertson	24
2	Oklahoma State	Art Griffith	23
3	Penn State	Charlie Speidel	15
4	Northern Iowa	Dave McCuskey	10
5	Princeton (NJ)	Jimmy Reed	8
T6	Michigan State	Fendley Collins	7
T6	Ohio State	Casey Fredericks	7
T6	Toledo (OH)	Joe Scalzo	7
T9	Cornell College (IA)	Lowell Lange	6
T9	Waynesburg (PA)	John R. Conklin acting	6
11	Yale (CT)	John O’Donnell	4
T12	Lehigh (PA)	Billy Sheridan	3
T12	Navy (MD)	Ray Swartz	3
T12	Northern Colorado	John Hancock	3
T12	Wyoming	Everett Lantz	3
16	Auburn (AL)	Arnold W. Umbach	2
T17	Army (NY)	Lloyd Appleton	1
T17	California-Berkeley	Henry Stone	1
T17	Columbia (NY)	Richard Waite	1
T17	Minnesota-Mankato	Rometo Macias	1
T17	San Francisco State (CA)	Bert Gustafson	1
T17	Ursinus (PA)	Kuhrt Wieneke	1
T17	Washington State	William Tomaras	1
T17	Wisconsin	George Martin	1

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

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1951 scoring rules.

1951 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach
25*	Carleton (MN)	Eiler Henrickson
25*	Case-Western Reserve (OH)	Not yet established
25*	City College (NY)	Joseph Sapora
25*	Colorado	Ray Jenkins
25*	Cornell (NY)	Erie J. Miller
25*	Cortland (NY)	David Miller
25*	Davidson (NC)	Charles W. Parker
25*	Harvard (MA)	Bob Pickett
25*	Hofstra (NY)	Walter Stone
25*	Illinois	B.R. Patterson
25*	Indiana (IN)	Charlie McDaniel
25*	Iowa	Mike Howard
25*	Kent State (OH)	Joe Begala
25*	Lock Haven (PA)	Hubert Jack
25*	Maryland	Sully Krouse
25*	Millersville (PA)	Theodore H. Rupp
25*	Pittsburgh (PA)	Rex Peery
25*	Purdue (IN)	Claude Reeck
25*	Rutgers (NJ)	Dick Voliva
25*	Springfield (MA)	Raymond E. Sparks
25*	St. Ambrose (IA)	George Strohmeyer
25*	Syracuse (NY)	Joe McDaniel

Cite this page: “1951 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1951/