NCAA Wrestling Data1928–2025

1942 NCAA Championships

Unlimited lb

Champion Loyd Arms, Oklahoma State.

Placers

Places 1 to 8 as the record has them.

  1. 1Loyd ArmsOKST
  2. 2Walter PorowskiKENT
  3. 3Frank RuggieriPUR
  4. 4Charles 'Shuford' SwiftNAVY

Championship

Round of 16 · 2 bouts

  1. Charles 'Shuford' Swift (4), Navy (MD) over James Wilson, Iowa State — Fall 8:31 · View bout
  2. Mearl 'Mike' Greene (3), Alfred State (NY) over Alex Agase, Illinois — Dec 9–3 · View bout

Quarterfinal · 4 bouts

  1. Charles 'Shuford' Swift (4), Navy (MD) over Walter Haloupek, Cornell College (IA) — Dec 9–4 · View bout
  2. Loyd Arms (1), Oklahoma State over Fred Schleicher, Ohio — Dec 8–1 · View bout
  3. Mearl 'Mike' Greene (3), Alfred State (NY) over Burt VanDerClute, Wesleyan (CT) — Dec 8–2 · View bout
  4. Walter Porowski, Kent State (OH) over Frank Ruggieri (2), Purdue (IN) — Fall 6:23 · View bout

Semifinal · 2 bouts

  1. Loyd Arms (1), Oklahoma State over Charles 'Shuford' Swift (4), Navy (MD) — Dec 7–2 · View bout
  2. Walter Porowski, Kent State (OH) over Mearl 'Mike' Greene (3), Alfred State (NY) — Dec 6–0 · View bout

Final · 1 bout

  1. Loyd Arms (1), Oklahoma State over Walter Porowski, Kent State (OH) — Dec 7–5 · View bout

Consolation

Consolation semifinal · 2 bouts

  1. Charles 'Shuford' Swift (4), Navy (MD) over Fred Schleicher, Ohio — Dec 6–3 · View bout
  2. Frank Ruggieri (2), Purdue (IN) over Mearl 'Mike' Greene (3), Alfred State (NY) — Dec 5–0 · View bout

Placement bouts

3rd-place bout · 1 bout

  1. Frank Ruggieri (2), Purdue (IN) over Charles 'Shuford' Swift (4), Navy (MD) — Dec 11–4 · View bout

Bouts as the source workbook records them, in round order. No bracket positions or byes are inferred.