Harvard Wrestlers Suffer 26-8 Drubbing by Rutgers

Harvard swallowed a large dose of chagrin at the IAB last night as Rutgers walloped the Crimson wrestlers 26 to 8. Little Howie Henjyoji and big Tack Chace looked like champions in winning their matches, but the Scarlet Knights eradicated every other Harvard wrestler with case.

Henjyoji kicked the match off as though Harvard was really going to make a contest of it, as he dazzled Rutgers' Bill Durling for a period and a half before pinning him at 5:20. Henjyoji held a 13-4 lead at the time.

And Chace finished the match up in fine style, spending most of the last two periods on top of the Scarlet Knights' heavyweight Paul Goble to roll up an 8-2 win.

But everything in between was just embarrassing. Ed Franquemont was the most embarrassed of all, losing his first match of the year 4 to 2 to Rutgers' Gene O'Donnell at 152. O'Donnell picked up a 3-2 lead by the end of the second period and then camped atop Franquemont for the rest of the match.

At 130, Bing Sung of Harvard and Jim Christie of Rutgers made faces at each other for two periods before Christie took the matter into his own hands and won 7 to 1. The Scarlet Knights' undefeated Greg DeMarco survived Tom Gilmore's murderous figure-four and beat the Crimson captain, 8 to 4.

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John Berman, a substitute pressed into service for Harvard against Ray Stys at 145, found himself on his back at 4:53. Rutgers' Tony Peters overpowered Paul Padlak 7 to 1 at 160, and John Welch broke loose against stubborn Chris Wickens of Harvard late in the match for a 9-4 win.

At 177, Stan Sebastian of Rutgers scored all his points in the last period to top Jeff Grant 6 to 2, and Chuck Sadowski polished off Harvard's Bill Malugen by the same score at 191.

The loss was Harvard's second against three wins.