1952 NCAA Championships
Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 10 weights.
The 1952 NCAA championships had 10 weights and 153 bouts. Oklahoma won the team title with 22 points; Northern Iowa was second with 21. Oklahoma had two of the 10 individual champions.
Most falls in the least time: Maynard Skinner, Colorado · 3 falls in 14:41
Individual champions
| Weight | Champion | Program | Title bout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | Hugh Peery (1)Pittsburgh (PA) | Pittsburgh (PA) | Dec 13–6 over Will Howard (3), Denver (CO) |
| 123 | Bill Borders (1)Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Dec 15–6 over Harry Arthur (3), Indiana (IN) |
| 130 | Gene Lybbert (1)Northern Iowa | Northern Iowa | Dec 8–1 over Donald Reece (3), Oklahoma |
| 137 | George Layman (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Dec 6–4 over Bob Morris, Northern Iowa |
| 147 | Jay 'Tommy' Evans (1)Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Dec 16–2 over Jim Harmon, Northern Iowa |
| 157 | Bill Weick (4)Northern Iowa | Northern Iowa | Dec 6–0 over Tom Titsworth, Oklahoma State |
| 167 | Joe Lemyre (1)Penn State | Penn State | Dec 6–0 over George Bender, Michigan State |
| 177 | Bentley Lyon (1)California-Berkeley | California-Berkeley | Dec 3–3 (tiebreaker) over Maynard Skinner (3), Colorado |
| 191 | Harry Lanzi (2)Toledo (OH) | Toledo (OH) | Dec 7–5 over George Myers (4), Iowa |
| Unlimited | Gene Nicks (1)Oklahoma State | Oklahoma State | Fall 4:19 over John Witte, Oregon State |
Team standings
Scoring details →Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1952
Head coach for the 1952 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma | Port Robertson | 22 |
| 2 | Northern Iowa | Dave McCuskey | 21 |
| 3 | Oklahoma State | Art Griffith | 20 |
| 4 | Toledo (OH) | Joe Scalzo | 10 |
| 5 | Penn State | Charlie Speidel | 8 |
| T6 | Colorado | Ray Jenkins | 7 |
| T6 | Illinois | B.R. Patterson | 7 |
| T6 | Waynesburg (PA) | Not yet established | 7 |
| T9 | California-Berkeley | Henry Stone | 6 |
| T9 | Indiana (IN) | Charlie McDaniel | 6 |
| T9 | Pittsburgh (PA) | Rex Peery | 6 |
| T12 | Michigan State | Fendley Collins | 5 |
| T12 | Oregon State | Jim Dixon | 5 |
| T14 | Denver (CO) | Lawrence F. Young | 4 |
| T14 | Iowa | Mike Howard | 4 |
| T16 | Kansas State | Leon Reynard | 3 |
| T16 | Michigan | Cliff Keen | 3 |
| T16 | Princeton (NJ) | Jimmy Reed | 3 |
| T16 | Rutgers (NJ) | Dick Voliva | 3 |
| T20 | Cornell College (IA) | Bill Koll | 2 |
| T20 | Maryland | Sully Krouse | 2 |
| T20 | Northern Colorado | John Hancock | 2 |
| T20 | Wyoming | Everett Lantz | 2 |
Show all 26 teams
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| T24 | Harvard (MA) | Bob Pickett | 1 |
| T24 | Iowa State | Hugo Otopalik | 1 |
| T24 | Yale (CT) | John O’Donnell | 1 |
10 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings
* Calculated from the bouts under the 1952 scoring rules.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27* | Brigham Young (UT) | Reed Nilsen | 0* |
| 27* | California-Los Angeles | Briggs Hunt | 0* |
| 27* | Colorado State | Julius Wagner | 0* |
| 27* | Lehigh (PA) | Billy Sheridan | 0* |
| 27* | Lock Haven (PA) | Hubert Jack | 0* |
| 27* | Minnesota | Dave Bartelma | 0* |
| 27* | Minnesota-Mankato | Rometo Macias | 0* |
| 27* | Navy (MD) | Ray Swartz | 0* |
| 27* | South Dakota State | Harold Holmes | 0* |
| 27* | Wisconsin | George Martin | 0* |
Cite this page: “1952 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1952/