NCAA Wrestling Data1928–2025

1955 NCAA Championships

191 lb

Champion Peter Blair, Navy (MD).

Placers

Places 1 to 8 as the record has them.

  1. 1Peter BlairNAVY
  2. 2Ken LeuerIOWA
  3. 3Richard AnthonyIND
  4. 4Gus GattoUNI

Championship

Round of 16 · 4 bouts

  1. Ken Culbert, Harvard (MA) over Elwood Reese, Lock Haven (PA) — Fall 2:21 · View bout
  2. Ken Leuer (2), Iowa over Dave Gallaher, Lehigh (PA) — Dec 9–2 · View bout
  3. Peter Blair (1), Navy (MD) over Abe Cohen, Tennessee-Chattanooga — Fall 5:24 · View bout
  4. Richard 'Jim' Macaleer, Princeton (NJ) over Ben Egerton, Cornell (NY) — Dec 4–0 · View bout

Quarterfinal · 4 bouts

  1. Gus Gatto (3), Northern Iowa over Richard 'Jim' Macaleer, Princeton (NJ) — Dec 4–2 · View bout
  2. Ken Leuer (2), Iowa over Ron Schirf, Pittsburgh (PA) — Dec 2–0 · View bout
  3. Peter Blair (1), Navy (MD) over Jim Coln, Oklahoma — Fall 7:50 · View bout
  4. Richard Anthony (4), Indiana (IN) over Ken Culbert, Harvard (MA) — Dec 9–0 · View bout

Semifinal · 2 bouts

  1. Ken Leuer (2), Iowa over Gus Gatto (3), Northern Iowa — Dec · View bout
  2. Peter Blair (1), Navy (MD) over Richard Anthony (4), Indiana (IN) — Dec 6–3 · View bout

Final · 1 bout

  1. Peter Blair (1), Navy (MD) over Ken Leuer (2), Iowa — Fall 5:01 · View bout

Consolation

Consolation round 5 · 2 bouts

  1. Dave Gallaher, Lehigh (PA) over Ron Schirf, Pittsburgh (PA) — Dec 3–2 · View bout
  2. Jim Coln, Oklahoma over Abe Cohen, Tennessee-Chattanooga — Dec 3–1 · View bout

Consolation semifinal · 2 bouts

  1. Gus Gatto (3), Northern Iowa over Dave Gallaher, Lehigh (PA) — Dec 4–2 · View bout
  2. Richard Anthony (4), Indiana (IN) over Jim Coln, Oklahoma — Dec 3–1 · View bout

Placement bouts

3rd-place bout · 1 bout

  1. Richard Anthony (4), Indiana (IN) over Gus Gatto (3), Northern Iowa — Dec 2–2 · View bout

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