Word: takedowns
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...meet couldn't have started much better for Harvard. Pete Keeler scored a quick takedown and won a 2--0 decision from Yale's once-beaten Bob Foster. Jack Linn, wrestling for the second time this year, followed with a 5-3 win over Jack Gordon...
...Grant, in an exciting contest at 191 lbs. against Penn co-captain Al Donzanti, went off the mat ten times but just missed a tie-breaking takedown. With the score 15-15 Penn's agile Denny Wooley pinned Harvard heavy-weight Bill Hurley to clinch the meet for the Penn team...
...other Harvard pins were registered by Pete Stanley and Ted Robbins. Stanley, a sophomore scoring his first varsity win, racked up five points in the first period against John Overdeck on a takedown and a near-fall, and went on to pin the Tech 167-pounder at 4:28. Robbins, beaten in his first two starts by highly-rated Cornell and Franklin and Marshall heavyweights, came up with an easy victory, pinning Jack Smith...
Capt. Joe Noble, wrestling at 157, gained his third straight victory of the season, outclassing John Sullivan, 4-0. Noble, dominating the match throughout, picked up two points in the first period on a takedown and two more in the second frame on a reversal...
...even more convincing decision was scored by Bob Foster, the varsity's other unbeaten wrestler, over Tech 177-pounder Bob McCullough. Foster, swarming all over McCullough from the start, gained a quick takedown and earned another point for a predicament in the first period. In the second frame, Foster appeared to have pinned his man, but the referee had an obstructed view and was unable to call it. Three points for this near-fall and six more for a reversal, another near-fall and a one-minute time advantage made Foster's final margin...