Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-19 | Page 16 | The Old Mat Master Shows a Champion

The Old Mat at Master Shows a Champion 4 George Doc Nelson Utah 55 States State's wrestling coach shows S Gerald Palmer Falmer a few tricks of the trade in preparation preparation y e tion for the defense of their western division wrestling title in Salt Lake City Friday S and Saturday afternoons Tho The AS 4 Aggie are heavy favorites to i repeat their conquest of Utah and B BY BYU Y U registered In dual y meets nr u A B r F r j. j f s sr i r 1 s- s 6 1 a r i s l n i N yr f 7 5 S S 'S r 5 y 7 5 f f tJ ft v f I nR I Nelsons Nelson's Wrestlers Help Hep Aggie Fans Forget Sport Setbacks LOGAN Feb 19 Bluff 19 Bluff hearty hearty- Nordic George Nelson up at Utah State is the one bright spot this year in the hard luck Aggie athletic athletic athletic ath ath- letic picture Unperturbed by familiar sighs of no material and bad sports year Nelson went ahead to build his sixth consecutive state collegiate collegiate collegiate col col- col- col champion wrestling squad And he brings into Salt Lake Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- Fri Fri- day a top-conditioned top team favored to win the 1942 western division championship The most recent three years in division mat competition have seen Utah B BY BYU Y U and Utah State i win the crown in that order For all three of those years the Farmers Farm Farm- ers have beaten both the Cougars and Utes to win the state title but in the divisional meet each season it has been the host school which has won top honors So Doc as he is called on the State campus is running up against a pattern in spi spite te of his favored position since its it's Utah university's turn to win division on its own mats But the canny Aggie trainer is counting on victory victory victory vic vic- tory in the finals Saturday by virtue of th the pronounced supremacy supremacy supremacy acy his grapplers have displayed in dumping both division competitors tors before Counting the number of wrestlers wrestlers wrestlers wres wres- from each of three colleges who are undefeated on the mat matthis matthis matthis this year the would take three weights with firsts B BY BYU Y U another three and Utah two Utah States State's trio of unbeaten are Gerald Palmer in inthe inthe inthe the pound division La Mar Mackay in the pound weight and Tom the North Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- DaI Da- I kota light I