West York Wrestling
West York Wrestling
Don Lehman
West York Area High School
∙ 3-time YCIAA Sectional Wrestling Champion
(1971-72-73).
∙ 2-time
Easton Holiday Tournament Champion
('71 &
'72).
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(1972 - Easton
Holiday Wrestling Tournament OW).
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1972-73 West York Wrestling Team Captain.
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D. Lehman -
59-5-1
Overall Career Record @ Heavyweight.
∙
Don
Lehman
Career
Dual Meet Record... 40-1-1 (1971-73).
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Don Lehman Off-Season Wrestling Tourney's...
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1972 West York Summer Wrestling Int. Hwt. Champion.
West York Summer Finals - Don Lehman (WY) dec. Wayne Jockers, Lower Dauphin 5-0.
∙
1972 U.S.W.F. PA Junior Freestyle Championships.
USWF PA State Finals @ 198lbs. - 1st Place
∙
1971 Tyrone Recreation Tournament Champion @ Hwt.
July 17, 1971 - Finals... Don Lehman (WY) dec. Brad Benson (Altoona) 2-1.
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1971 Allentown YMCA Takedown Hwt. Champion.
Allentown YMCA Finals - Don Lehman dec. Mike Stambaugh 10-1.
∙
York College Alumni Tourney Champion.
1980 (195lbs.) & 1994 (220lbs.)
1980 York College Alumni Finals @ 195lbs.
▪ Don Lehman (West York/ESU) dec. Mark Miller (Dallastown/YCP) 3-2
1994 York College Alumni Finals @ 220lbs.
▪ Don Lehman (West York/ESU) dec. Dave Paul (Shrewsbury) 1-0 ot
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'69-'70 WYJH Wrestling
1969-70 West York Junior High
Wrestling
(after the last dual
meet of the '69-'70 season - @ York Suburban)
(L-R)
Barry Albright, *Kevin McCleary,
Keith Lichty,
Rick Albright & *Don Lehman.
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*Kevin McCleary and Don
Lehman were 9-0 per the '69-70 WYJH season.
∙ Kevin McCleary was undefeated during his 3-year West York Junior High
campaign!
(WYJH Coaches were - Whedon Myers and Herbert Yost)
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larger photo
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1972-73 West York Wrestling Captains
▪
Keith Lichty,
Kevin McCleary & Don Lehman...
before their last home match
for West York High School.
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1970-71 West York Wrestling Team Photo
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1971-72 West York
Wrestling Team Photo
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1972-73 West York Wrestling Team
Photo
(West York HS was 40-2 as a
team in dual meets during above 3 seasons!!!)
EASTON HOLIDAY WRESTLING
TOURNAMENT
1972 Easton Area Holiday Tourney Champions
(results)
Front
(L-R)
Greg Shoemaker, Easton; Greg Duke,
Manheim Twp.; Garth Springer, Manheim Twp.;
Rich Rodriguez, Saucon
Valley; Curt Stanley, Easton; Len Kaminski, Hanover Area.
Back
(L-R)
Russ
Snyder, Easton; Fred Landis, Manheim Twp.; Kevin McCleary, West York (ow);
Wayne Horton, Bethlehem Freedom; Lee Guzzo, Easton; Don Lehman, West York (ow).
1972 - West York vs. Dallastown Football Senior Day
▪
WY Football Game Captain - Don Lehman with parents.
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1972 West York Area
Senior High Football Team
1972 West York Area
Senior High Football Team
1972 Senior Front Row:
(L-R) Don Lehman, Jeff Markey, Keith Zimmerman.
Second Row: (L-R) Dan Markey,
Larry Schultz,
Bob Berger, Paul Sentz,
Steve Yohe, Jeff Kochenour, Jeff Hershey.
▪
Larger '72 WY Football Team Photos
-
HERE!
▪
The 1972-73 West York Varsity Club Photo -
HERE!
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WEST YORK VARSITY
WRESTLING '72
1972 West York
YCIAA Sectional Champions
@ Gettysburg College
Kneeling (L-R) Paul Mulay, Kevin McCleary, Neil Bupp.
Back (L-R) Head Coach John T. Toggas, Scott Callahan, Don Lehman,
Mike Stambaugh, Asst. Coach Robert Bowers.
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1971-72 West York HS Varsity Wrestling
"The Gang"
(L-R) Kevin McCleary, Neil
Bupp, A. Scott Callahan, Mike Stambaugh, Don Lehman.
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∙ 1971-72
Junior Season - Don Lehman (21-1) @ Heavyweight.
Don Lehman
East Stroudsburg University
▪ 4-Year ESU Wrestling Letterman.
▪ 3-Time PSAC Tourney Medalist.
▪ Don Lehman ESU Career Varsity Record ... (58-22-5).
Click & view ESU All-Time Wrestling
Letterwinners
1970-2010.
1976-77 ESSC Varsity
Team
1976-77 East Stroudsburg State College
Varsity
Wrestling Team
1st Row (L-R) Sal Picone, Desi McNelis, Jim
Vargo, Galen McWilliams.
2nd Row (L-R) Coach Rich Schumacher, Don Lehman, Gary Kessel, Skip
Falcone, Bill Cuff, unknown.
3rd Row (L-R) Coach Bob Dalling, Bill Katinowsky, Kerry Hyman, Wayne
Carroll, Greg Shoemaker,
Don Blair, Head Coach Clyde "Red" Witman.
▪ (Not pictured: Kerry Ciatto, Harvey
Freeman, Ken Magaro)
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1976-77 ESSC Varsity Wrestling Team Record (12-4-1)
ESSC 30 Elizabethtown 12,
ESSC 20 F&M 18, ESSC 24 Trenton State 14,
ESSC 31 Mass. Maritime 21,
ESSC 23 Slippery Rock 14, ESSC 24 Montclair St. 14, Millersville 32
ESSC 11, ESSC 21 Lock
Haven 21,
Shippensburg 20 ESSC 18,
ESSC 42 Mansfield 3, ESSC 25 Yale 13,
ESSC 30
Kutztown 11,
ESSC 31 West Chester State 6, Wilkes
College 24
ESSC 13, Bloomsburg State 27 ESSC 4,
ESSC 20 Columbia University 12,
ESSC 35 Bucknell University 6.
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Head Coach: Clyde Hilton "Red" Witman
Asst. Coaches: Robert Dalling & Rich Schumacher
ESU Wrestling
Team
Manager: Kathy Koch
• East Stroudsburg Open - Gary Kessel (1st), Don Lehman (4th), Greg Shoemaker
(4th)
• Lafayette Invitational Wrestling Tournament: ESSC Team
- 3rd Place
(Lafayette Invitational Tourney Champions - G. Shoemaker, S. Picone, G. Kessel, D. Lehman)
• EIWA Team Wrestling Championships @ Syracuse University: ESSC Team - 5th Place
• Team's Outstanding Wrestler - Gary Kessel (1st PSAC) (1st - EIWA)
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▪ 1977 EIWA Wrestling Championship Brackets -
CLICK HERE!
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Lafayette Invitational Wrestling
Tournament
Team Scoring: Princeton 67, Army
66, East Stroudsburg 64 1/2, F&M 41, Rider 35 1/2,
Lafayette College 26
1/2, University of Delaware 23 1/2, University of Pennsylvania (Penn) 11.
1976 Lafayette College Invitational Wrestling
Champions
@ Lafayette College, Easton PA
(118lbs.) Tom Coleman, Army
(126lbs.) Greg Shoemaker, East Stroudsburg State
(134lbs.) Sal Picone, East Stroudsburg State
(142lbs.) Brian Brown, Franklin & Marshall College
(150lbs.) Steve Grubman, Princeton University
(158lbs.) Gary Kessel, East Stroudsburg State
(167lbs.) Jeff Culp, Army
(177lbs.) Keith Ely, Princeton University
(190lbs.) Don Lehman, East Stroudsburg State
(Hwt.) John Sefter, Princeton University
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√ Other ESSC Placewinners:
Randy Tillman (118lbs.) - 2nd place
▪ ESSC Wrestlers who did not place: Galen McWilliams (142lbs.) Ken Magaro
(150lbs.)
Harvey Freeman (167lbs.)
Don Blair (177lbs.) Bill Katinowsky (Hwt.)
1974-75 ESSC Wrestling Season/Team Photo
1975-76 East Stroudsburg
State College Wrestling Results
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1975 PSAC WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
(L-R) Tom Jackson (California State),
Don Lehman (East Stroudsburg State),
*Bill Shuffstall (Slippery Rock State),
Eric Guyll (Millersville State), Matt Tydor (Bloomsburg State),
Andy Aronstam (West
Chester State).
*Bill
Shuffstall placed
6th at the 1974 NCAA DI Championships and
6th at
the 1975 NCAA DI Championships...to become a 2-time All-American!
∙ 1975 PSAC Wrestling Championship
Preview
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East Stroudsburg University Wrestling
ESU Wrestling Archive..1973 to 1977
-
CLICK HERE!
(Bill Luckenbaugh, Mike Stambaugh, Don Lehman,
Keith Lichty)
ESU Wrestling Lettermen 1960-2007
-
CLICK HERE!
(10 West York Wrestlers on the ESU Lettermen List)
West York Wrestlers Lettered @ ESU -
CLICK HERE!
(Eby, Luckenbaugh, Stambaugh's, Lehman, Lichty,
Gay, Buelow, Sprenkle, Wolfe)
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▪ 1978 -
Scott Callahan (top) and Don Lehman
(bottom)
with their escorts at good friend... Keith Lichty's wedding.
(State College, PA)
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▪ Don Lehman - @
West York Alumni Golf Outing
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▪ Don Lehman and his 1999 Harley Davidson 1450cc Dyna
Low-Rider!
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1/10/09
West York 1977-78 Championship Team Reunion
Front Row (L-R) Don Botterbusch, Bruce Stambaugh, Rod Stough, John Silar.
Back Row (L-R) Larry Gay, Barry Gay, Asst. Coach Don Lehman, Randy Blasdell,
Dave Stram, Head Coach John T. Toggas, Asst. Coach John Sprenkle.
▪ Photo by
Kevin Drawbaugh of
JK Images
Larger 1/10/09 West York 78' Team Photo/Recap!
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▪
Don Lehman - owner/webmaster
of westyorkwrestlingalumni.com website.
@ Randy Blasdell's 2009 Bulldog
Open
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