If you look at the way they used to add up the points, and with Oklahoma State sucking up so many points for so many years, teams could finish in the Top Few with a couple of good wrestlers.
In 1939 we were second (our high-water mark) with 12 points, behind Oklahoma State with 33. Illinois was 3rd with 11 points and four teams tied with 9. We had two placewinners -- Henry Matthes won and Tom King was 3rd. There were eight weights and just three placewinners per weight, and finalists weren't guarantee a place. So two guys got us the runner-up position. CCNY had a guy finish 2nd; that was good for 9th place.
Some of our modern "fans" would jump all over Billy Sheridan's case for all the injuries that messed up the team's effort at the title (2x EIWA champ Gus Hagerman was unable to compete at NCAAs; Harold Masem broke his hand in the semis against Harold Nichols and failed to place), not to mention allowing Matthes to not return for his senior year in 1940 and allowing EIWA runner-up Bob Craig to flunk out. We live in a different world now. We've forgotten what a terrible job Sheridan did that year, so now we regard it as one of Lehigh's finest seasons.
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