Wrestlers Top Yale, 32-5, But Tigers Take Ivy Title

Harvard's wrestling team crushed Yale Saturday, 32-5, but failed to gain a share of the Ivy League wrestling championship as Princeton nipped Cornell, 17-15, to take the title.

Harvard's win gained it undisputed possession of second place with a 5-1 Ivy record. Cornell took third at 4-2. It was the third time since the Ivy League began in 1955 that Cornell has not won the championship.

At New Haven, Harvard's victory was never in doubt as Carl Baum (137), captain Ed Franquemont (152), and Bob Panoff (hvy.) all recorded second-period pins.

Dick Low (160) was the only Harvard wrestler to lose, and his defeat was an 8-0 decision to undefeated Eli Tom Mc Ewan, one of the top wrestlers in the East. Chris Wickens, wrestling for the first time this year at 177, tied Ed O'Hare, 5-5, in the only other match in which Yale won any team points.

Howie Henjyoji rested Saturday after suffering some minor injuries in practice. In his place, Andy Kopecki (123) trounced Don Joseph, 7-2, and Danny Naylor (130) did likewise to Yale's John Weber by the same score.

Then Baum got the first of three pins with an easy reverse nelson on George Ospovat in the second period. He was ahead, 2-0, at the time on the strength of a first-period takedown.

Franquemont closed out an unbeaten, once-tied season by pinning Yale captain Chris Wick. Franquemont was ahead, 9-1, at the time of his pin.

And Panoff rounded off the season with his third pin, this one over Rick Mattas.

Other Harvard decisions went to Bill Zinn (145), Paul Padlak (167), and Howie Freedman (191). Padlak--wrestling the weight at which he will enter next week's Eastern tournament--pulled out his 6-5 victory over Fred Southwick with a last-second take-down.

Princeton trailed Cornell, 15-12, going into the final match. But the Tigers' heavyweight Ollie Kenen--the man who won the Harvard meet for them--pulled a dramatic pin to avert a three-team tie for the title among Harvard, Cornell, and Princeton.