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THE WRESTLING SCENE ■■- «fejl As the 1951-52 season ended, the wrestlhij; future of VMI shone hrightly. The team, on the huihl, had functione l far better than had been expected. It appeared that Maryland ' s supremacy might be strongly challenged this year. One champion, two third place men and one fourth place man (Ed Brown, Walt Sanders, Ted Mariani, and Miles Nowitsky) formed a solid core round which to fashion the team. There were also many others whose hard work in gaining much-needed experience and whose strong desire to win made them valuable cogs in the grappling machine. It was not in the cards, however, for this group of men to take to the mat as a unit at full strength. Even before the season opened Mariani suffered a neck injury that made it impossible for him to compete for the duration of the season. Shortly after the Christmas holidays, Sanders, who had three falls to his credit, was the victim of a freak accident in practice that put him out of commission for the remainder of the season with a leg fracture. After these disasters set the pace, the influenza epidemic and various other injuries stepped in to weaken the entire squad and sideline more talent. The wrestlers who filled the gaps worked long and hard, but their inexperience proved too much of an obstacle to bring the team up to its original power. Jock Wheeler, who was counted out with an injury late in the season, did a grand job of wrestling against opponents of greater experience in most of the meets. Bill Berry, Buck Anderson and Troy Carter also turned in good accounts in the face of some of the roughest contests. Despite the heavy loss of key men, and the consequent decline of team strength, the grapplers suffered only one bad defeat and that was to the conference champion. The other meets were about evenly matched. Credit is due to the team as a whole, for the substitution of spirit in lieu of experience makes a long hard road to travel. Brown Berry NowilKky J
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