1969 NCAA Championships

Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 11 weights.

The 1969 NCAA championships had 11 weights and 462 bouts. Iowa State won the team title with 104 points; Oklahoma was second with 69. Iowa State had three of the 11 individual champions.

11weights

11individual champions

462bouts

77wins by fall

Most falls in the least time: Dan Gable, Iowa State · 5 falls in 20:59

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Individual champions

1969 individual champions by weight
Weight	Champion	Program	Title bout
115	John Miller (9)Oregon	Oregon	Dec 4–3 over Sergio Gonzales (4), California-Los Angeles
123	Wayne Boyd (6)Temple (PA)	Temple (PA)	Fall 7:20 over Stan Keeley (1), Oklahoma
130	David McGuire (1) · 2nd titleOklahoma	Oklahoma	Fall 4:32 over Len Groom (2), Northern Colorado
137	Dan Gable (1) · 2nd titleIowa State	Iowa State	Fall 4:17 over Marty Willigan (2), Hofstra (NY)
145	Mike Grant (1)Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Dec 5–4 over Ray Murphy Jr. (7), Oklahoma State
152	Gobel Kline (2)Maryland	Maryland	Dec 4–1 over Rich Mihal (4), Iowa
160	Cleo McGlory (1)Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Dec 5–3 over Dave Martin (6), Iowa State
167	Jason Smith (2)Iowa State	Iowa State	Dec 5–4 over John Woods (1), California-Poly
177	Chuck Jean (4)Iowa State	Iowa State	Fall 7:25 over Pete Cornell (7), Michigan
191	Tom Kline (1)California-Poly	California-Poly	Dec 8–4 over Robert Grimes, San Diego State (CA)
Unlimited	Jess Lewis (1)Oregon State	Oregon State	Dec 7–1 over Jeff Smith (2), Michigan State

Team standings

Scoring details →

Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1969

Head coach for the 1969 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.

1969 team standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
1	Iowa State	Harold Nichols	104
2	Oklahoma	Tommy Evans	69
3	Oregon State	Dale Thomas	58
4	Michigan State	Grady Peninger	57
5	California-Poly	Vaughan Hitchcock	52
6	Oklahoma State	Myron Roderick	51
7	Iowa	Dave McCuskey	38
8	California-Los Angeles	Dave Hollinger	28
9	Michigan	Cliff Keen	27
10	Temple (PA)	Robert McCreary	22
11	Hofstra (NY)	Bob Getchell	21
12	Maryland	Sully Krouse	20
T13	Northern Colorado	Jack LaBonde	18
T13	Washington (WA)	Jim Smith	18
15	Indiana State	Chester Sanders	17
16	Oregon	Art Keith	16
T17	Arizona	William J. Nelson	15
T17	San Diego State (CA)	Shuford Swift	15
19	Navy (MD)	Ed Peery	14
T20	Lehigh (PA)	Gerry Leeman	13
T20	Northern Iowa	Chuck Patten	13
T20	Penn State	Bill Koll	13
T20	San Francisco State (CA)	Allen Abraham	13

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1969 team standings, continued
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
T24	Bloomsburg (PA)	Russ Houk	11
T24	Minnesota	Wally Johnson	11
T24	Winona State (MN)	Robert W. Gunner	11
27	Brigham Young (UT)	Fred Davis	10
28	Pittsburgh (PA)	Dave Adams	9
T29	Lock Haven (PA)	Gray Simons	8
T29	Minnesota-Moorhead	Bill Garland	8
T29	Northwestern (IL)	Ken Kraft	8
T32	Colorado	Shelby Wilson	7
T32	Southern Illinois Carbondale	Linn Long	7
T32	Utah	Marvin G. Hess	7
T32	Wilkes (PA)	John Reese	7
T36	California-Berkeley	Bill Martell	5
T36	Clarion (PA)	Bob Bubb	5
T36	Colorado State	Don Mullison	5
T36	Drake (IA)	Lonnie Timmerman	5
T36	Indiana (IN)	Charlie McDaniel	5
T36	Missouri	Hap Whitney	5
T42	Buffalo (NY)	Gerald Gergley	4
T42	Harvard (MA)	John Lee	4
T42	Northern Illinois	Don Flavin	4
T42	Ohio State	Casey Fredericks	4
T42	Portland State (OR)	Howard Westcott	4
T47	Adams State (CO)	Frank Powell	3
T47	Army (NY)	LeRoy Alitz	3
T47	Kent State (OH)	Joe Begala	3
T47	Long Beach State (CA)	Dale Deffner	3
T47	Maritime (NY)	Larry Sciacchetano	3
T47	Northwest Missouri State	Gary Collins	3
T47	Ohio	Harry Houska	3
T47	Wisconsin	George Martin	3
T55	Air Force (CO)	Karl Kitt	2
T55	Arizona State	Ted Bredehoft	2
T55	East Stroudsburg (PA)	Clyde H. Witman	2
T55	Idaho State	Tom Jewell	2
T55	Ithaca (NY)	Herbert Broadwell	2
T55	Kansas State	Fritz Knorr	2
T55	North Central (IL)	Ron Bachman	2
T55	Old Dominion (VA)	Thomas Merrill Robinson	2
T55	Oswego (NY)	James Howard	2
T55	South Dakota State	Frank Kurtenbach	2
T65	Long Island Post (NY)	James Davey	1
T65	Montana State	Herb Agocs	1
T65	Nebraska	Orval Borgialli	1
T65	New Hampshire	Irv Hess	1
T65	Pennsylvania	Donald Frey	1
T65	Stanford (CA)	Dave Reed	1
T65	Washington State	Roger James	1
T65	West Chester (PA)	Milton Collier	1

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

* Calculated from the bouts under the 1969 scoring rules.

1969 programs not in the published standings
Rank	Program	Head coach	Points
65*	Virginia Tech	Frank Teske	1*
74*	Alabama	Jim Tanara	0*
74*	Auburn (AL)	Arnold W. Umbach	0*
74*	Ball State (IN)	Peter B. Samuels	0*
74*	California Poly Pomona	Jack Frost	0*
74*	California-Davis	Bob Brooks	0*
74*	Citadel (SC)	Chip Snead	0*
74*	Davidson (NC)	Charles W. Parker	0*
74*	Delaware	Paul G. Billy	0*
74*	Eastern Kentucky	Not yet established	0*
74*	Fairleigh Dickinson (NJ)	Ray Barker	0*
74*	Fresno State (CA)	Dick Francis	0*
74*	George Washington (DC)	Not yet established	0*
74*	Georgia	Rex Jackson	0*
74*	Illinois	Jack Robinson	0*
74*	Indiana (PA)	Bill Blacksmith	0*
74*	Louisiana State	Dale Ketelsen	0*
74*	Marquette (WI)	Barney Karpfinger	0*
74*	Massachusetts	Homer J. Barr	0*
74*	Miami (OH)	Joseph J. Galat	0*
74*	Minnesota-Mankato	Rometo Macias	0*
74*	Montana	Michael Delaney	0*
74*	New Mexico	Ron Jacobsen	0*
74*	North Carolina State	Jerry Daniels	0*
74*	Notre Dame (IN)	Thomas Fallon	0*
74*	Oneonta (NY)	Albert H. Sosa	0*
74*	Princeton (NJ)	John Johnston	0*
74*	San Jose State (CA)	Hugh Mumby	0*
74*	Syracuse (NY)	Ed Carlin	0*
74*	Texas-El Paso	Bruno Rolak	0*
74*	Toledo (OH)	Dick Wilson	0*
74*	Virginia	George Edwards	0*
74*	Weber State (UT)	Ralph Hunter	0*
74*	Western Colorado	Leroy Tracy Borah	0*
74*	Western Illinois	Bob McMahan	0*
74*	William & Mary (VA)	Richard Besnier	0*
74*	Wyoming	Joe McDaniel	0*

Cite this page: “1969 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1969/