1960 NCAA Championships
Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 10 weights.
The 1960 NCAA championships had 10 weights and 268 bouts. Oklahoma won the team title with 59 points; Iowa State was second with 40. Oklahoma had three of the 10 individual champions.
Most falls in the least time: Roy Conrad, Northern Illinois · 3 falls in 8:21
Individual champions
| Weight | Champion | Program | Title bout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | Eliott 'Gray' Simons (2)Lock Haven (PA) | Lock Haven (PA) | Dec 5–5 (tiebreaker) over John 'Dick' Wilson (1), Toledo (OH) |
| 123 | Dave Auble (1) · 2nd titleCornell (NY) | Cornell (NY) | Dec 9–5 over Masaaki Hatta (3), Oklahoma State |
| 130 | Stan Abel (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma | Oklahoma | Dec 5–2 over Larry Lauchle (2), Pittsburgh (PA) |
| 137 | Leslie Anderson (1) · 2nd titleIowa State | Iowa State | Dec 6–3 over Lester Austin Jr. (2), Syracuse (NY) |
| 147 | Larry Hayes (1) · 2nd titleIowa State | Iowa State | Dec 4–1 over Jerry Frude (2), Wyoming |
| 157 | Art KraftNorthwestern (IL) | Northwestern (IL) | Dec 5–3 over Braden 'Thad' Turner (2), Lehigh (PA) |
| 167 | Dick Ballinger (1)Wyoming | Wyoming | Dec 6–4 over Ronnie Clinton (2), Oklahoma State |
| 177 | Roy Conrad (1)Northern Illinois | Northern Illinois | Dec 14–13 over David Campbell (2), Oklahoma |
| 191 | George Goodner (2)Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Dec 4–3 over Jack Stanbro, Ithaca (NY) |
| Unlimited | Dale Lewis (1)Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Dec 3–1 over Sherwyn Thorson, Iowa |
Team standings
Scoring details →Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1960
Head coach for the 1960 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma | Tommy Evans | 59 |
| 2 | Iowa State | Harold Nichols | 40 |
| 3 | Wyoming | Everett Lantz | 36 |
| 4 | Iowa | Dave McCuskey | 32 |
| 5 | Oklahoma State | Myron Roderick | 29 |
| 6 | Lock Haven (PA) | Hubert Jack | 25 |
| 7 | Penn State | Charlie Speidel | 23 |
| 8 | Pittsburgh (PA) | Rex Peery | 21 |
| 9 | Northwestern (IL) | Ken Kraft | 20 |
| T10 | Cornell (NY) | Erie J. Miller | 17 |
| T10 | Northern Illinois | Robert Brigham | 17 |
| 12 | Lehigh (PA) | Gerry Leeman | 16 |
| 13 | Purdue (IN) | Claude Reeck | 14 |
| T14 | Ithaca (NY) | Herbert Broadwell | 11 |
| T14 | Syracuse (NY) | Joe Scandura | 11 |
| T16 | Rutgers (NJ) | Dick Voliva | 10 |
| T16 | Toledo (OH) | Joe Scalzo | 10 |
| T18 | Indiana (IN) | Charlie McDaniel | 9 |
| T18 | Michigan | Cliff Keen | 9 |
| T18 | Michigan State | Fendley Collins | 9 |
Show all 49 teams
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| T21 | Oregon State | Dale Thomas | 8 |
| T21 | Waynesburg (PA) | Raymond Murdock | 8 |
| 23 | Army (NY) | LeRoy Alitz | 7 |
| T24 | Kent State (OH) | Joe Begala | 6 |
| T24 | Minnesota | Wally Johnson | 6 |
| T24 | Portland State (OR) | Howard Westcott | 6 |
| T27 | Cornell College (IA) | Barron Bremner | 5 |
| T27 | Oregon | Mike Reuter | 5 |
| T27 | West Chester (PA) | Willard Trezise | 5 |
| T27 | Yale (CT) | John O’Donnell | 5 |
| T31 | Minnesota-Mankato | Rometo Macias | 4 |
| T31 | Northern Colorado | John Hancock | 4 |
| T31 | Utah | Marvin G. Hess | 4 |
| T34 | Rochester Tech (NY) | Earl Fuller | 3 |
| T34 | Southern Illinois Carbondale | James Wilkinson | 3 |
| T34 | Springfield (MA) | Douglas E. Parker | 3 |
| T37 | Brown (RI) | Ralph G. Anderton | 2 |
| T37 | Kansas State | Fritz Knorr | 2 |
| T37 | Maryland | Sully Krouse | 2 |
| T37 | Northern Iowa | Bill Koll | 2 |
| T37 | Ohio | Fred Schleicher | 2 |
| T37 | Ohio State | Casey Fredericks | 2 |
| T37 | South Dakota State | Warren Williamson | 2 |
| T37 | Washington State | Myron Newell | 2 |
| T45 | Bowling Green (OH) | Not yet established | 1 |
| T45 | Coast Guard (CT) | Frank S. Kapral | 1 |
| T45 | Colorado Mines | Jack Hancock | 1 |
| T45 | Knox (IL) | Al Partin | 1 |
| T45 | Nebraska | Bill Smith | 1 |
28 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings
* Calculated from the bouts under the 1960 scoring rules.
Cite this page: “1960 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1960/