West
York Area
Wrestling
Donald S. Lehman '73
WY
Records
West York Area High School - '73 Alumnus
WY High School
Mat Stats...
3-year Mat Letterman
∙
Don Lehman - Overall Career Record @ Hwt./Unl...
59-5-1.
∙
Don
Lehman
Career
Dual Meet Record
•
40-1-1
(1971-73).
∙
3-time YCIAA Section Wrestling Champion
• (1971-72-73).
∙
3-time District III Wrestling Qualifier
• (1971-72-73).
∙
District III Wrestling
Semi-Finalist
• (1973).
∙ 2-time
Easton Holiday Tournament Champion
•
('71 &
'72).
(1972 - Easton
Holiday Wrestling Tournament OW).
∙
1972-73 West York Wrestling Varsity Team Captain.
1973 USA-PA vs. Poland National
Freestyle
Team Member.
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1972-73
West
York
Varsity
Wrestling
1972-73 West York Varsity
Wrestling
Team
(13-1 YCIAA Record - 2nd
Place to Dallastown)
▪ Front (L-R) Greg Henry, Steve Thomas, Scott Hursh, Skip Martin,
*Keith
Lichty & Jeffrey Meckley.
▪
Back (L-R) Alan Eisenhart, Steve Blevins,
*Kevin
McCleary,
Barry King, Michael Root & *Don
Lehman.
*West York Captains
- Lichty, McCleary, Lehman.
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07/9/11 photo by Karen Elicker Gardner (Annapolis, MD)
∙
Cousins Steve Elicker & Don Lehman!
ESSC/ESU Wrestling Letters (4 each)...
Don Lehman Off-Season
Wrestling Tourney's...
∙ 1972 West York Booster Wrestling Int. Hwt. Champion
∙ Don Lehman (WY) dec. Wayne Jockers, Lower Dauphin 5-0.
∙
1972
U.S.W.F.
PA State Junior Freestyle Championships
∙
USWF PA State FS Finals @ 198.5lbs. - 1st Place.
∙ 1971 Tyrone
HS Recreation Tournament Champion Hwt
∙
July 17, 1971 Finals - Don Lehman (WY) dec. Brad Benson (Altoona) 2-1.
∙
1971
Allentown
YMCA
Takedown
Tourney
Hwt.
Champion
∙
Allentown YMCA Finals - Don Lehman dec. Mike Stambaugh 10-1.
2-Time
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. David Paul (Shrewsbury) 1-0 (ot).
1973 PIAA District III
YCIAA Section Wrestling Champions
▪ Front (L-R) Greg Burg (York
Suburban), Tom Clark (Red Lion), Bradley Warner (Dallastown),
Bill Gilbert (Susquehannock),
Joel Hoffman (Dallastown), Jeff Smith (York Suburban).
▪ Back
(L-R) Joe Myers (Dallastown), Kevin McCleary (West York), John Boop
(Northeastern),
John Weston (Dallastown),
Barry
Neff (Dallastown),
Don Lehman
(West York).
1973 Page
1972-73 WEST YORK WRESTLING
CAPTAINS
1972-73 West York Wrestling Captains
▪
Keith Lichty,
Kevin McCleary & Don Lehman before
their... last home match
for West York High School.
∙
1970-71 West York Wrestling Team Photo
∙
1971-72 West York
Wrestling Team Photo
∙
1972-73 West York Wrestling Team
Photo
(West York HS was 40-2 in dual meets during above 3 seasons!)
Easton
Holiday
"Pat
Reilly"
WRESTLING
TOURNAMENT
1972 Easton Area Holiday Tourney Champions
▪
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, Beth. Freedom;
Lee Guzzo, Easton; Don Lehman,
West York (ow).
WEST YORK VARSITY FOOTBALL
1972 - West York/Dallastown Football Senior Day
▪
WY Football Game Captain - Don Lehman,
with parents'
JoAnn & Frederick Lehman.
1972 West York Area
Senior High Football Team
1972 West York Area
Senior High Football Team
1972 Senior 1st Row:
(L-R)
Don Lehman, Jeff Markey, Keith Zimmerman.
2nd Row: (L-R) Daniel Markey,
Larry Schultz,
Robert Berger, Paul Sentz,
Stephen Yohe, Jeffery Kochenour, Jeffery Hershey.
▪
A
"Larger" '72 WYHS Football Team Photo
-
HERE!
▪
'72-73
West York HS
Varsity Club
Photo
- - -
HERE!
VOTED CHAMPIONS!
The
1971-72 West York Varsity Wrestling Team
(14-0)
▪ Front Row (L-R) -
Steve Thomas, Paul Mulay,
Skip Martin, Keith Lichty,
Barry Botterbusch,
Mark
Jenkins, Kevin McCleary,
Neil Bupp.
▪
Back Row (L-R) -
Jim Haas, Barry Albright,
Scott Callahan, Mike
Root,
Barry King,
Mike Stambaugh,
Don Lehman.
6 YCIAA Sectional Champions: (Mulay, McCleary, Bupp, Callahan,
Stambaugh & Lehman).
1972 DIII YCIAA Sectional Champs
1971-72 West York Varsity Wrestling
1972
District III YCIAA Sectional
Champions
▪ Front (L-R) Paul Mulay, Kevin McCleary, Neil
Bupp.
▪ Back (L-R) Head Coach John Toggas, Scott Callahan,
Don Lehman, Mike Stambaugh,
Coach Robert Bowers.
1971-72 West York HS Varsity Wrestling
"The Gang"
(L-R) Kevin McCleary, Neil
Bupp, A. Scott Callahan,
Michael Stambaugh &
Donald
Lehman.
▪ westyorkwrestlingalumni.com's webmaster
in '71
"Above"...1971
-
West York Heavyweight
-
Don Lehman
with PIAA wrestling referee
*William Billet...
after Don Lehman's pin secured a West York HS win over
Dallastown HS.
▪
West York Varsity Wrestling
Cheerleader...Linda Swemley, celebrates!
▪
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
▪
▪
▪
*William
Billet (York High '52) was one of York High's most accomplished
wrestlers!
Billet lost just two matches during his final two years at York High.
Billet won the
1951 95lb.
District III title as a junior and the '52 112lb. District III title as a
senior.
Billet was a
'51
SE Regional runner-up and a '52 SE Regional Champion!
He lost in
the 1952 PIAA State Championship Wrestling semi-finals.
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∙ 1971-72
Junior Season - Don Lehman (21-1) @ Heavyweight.
1978-79 West York Wrestling
Coaching Staff
(L-R)
Don Lehman,
Head Coach John T. Toggas, John Sprenkle.
Don Lehman @
East Stroudsburg State College
▪ 4-Year ESU Wrestling
Letterman
▪ 3 - Time PSAC Tournament Podium
Medalist
▪ Don Lehman ESU Career Varsity Record...
(58-22-5)
Click ESU All-Time Wrestling
Letterwinners
'70-'12.
1976-77 ESSC Varsity
Team
'76-'77 East Stroudsburg State College Wrestling Team
▪ Front (L-R) Sal Picone, Desi McNelis, Jim
Vargo,
Galen McWilliams.
▪ Middle
(L-R)
Coach Rich Schumacher, Don Lehman, Gary Kessel,
Skip
Falcone, Bill Cuff, unknown.
▪
Back (L-R) Coach Robert Dalling, Bill Katinowsky,
Kerry Hyman,
Wayne
Carroll, Greg Shoemaker,
Don Blair, Head Coach Clyde H. "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 & Richard 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)
• The EIWA Team Wrestling Championships @ Syracuse University:
ESSC Team - 5th Place
• Team's Outstanding Wrestler - Gary Kessel
(1st PSAC) (1st - EIWA)
▪
1977 EIWA Wrestling Championship Brackets
CLICK HERE!
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Lafayette Invitational
'76 Wrestling
Tournament Results
∙ 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 Inv. Wrestling
Champions
@ Lafayette College, Easton PA
▪
(118lbs.) Tom Coleman, Army (West Point)
▪
(126lbs.) Greg Shoemaker, East Stroudsburg State
College
▪
(134lbs.) Sal Picone, East Stroudsburg State
College
▪
(142lbs.) Brian Brown, Franklin & Marshall College
▪
(150lbs.) Steve Grubman, Princeton University
▪
(158lbs.) Gary Kessel, East Stroudsburg State
College
▪
(167lbs.) Jeff Culp, Army
(West Point)
▪
(177lbs.) Keith Ely, Princeton University
▪
(190lbs.) Don Lehman, East Stroudsburg State
College
▪
(Hwt.) John Sefter, Princeton University
√ 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.)
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WRESTLING
1975 PSAC Wrestling Championships
190lb. Podium
(L-R) Tom Jackson (California State),
Don Lehman (East Stroudsburg),
*Bill Shuffstall (Slippery Rock State),
Eric Guyll (Millersville State), Matthew Taylor (Bloomsburg State),
Andy Aronstam (West
Chester State).
*Bill
Shuffstall placed
6th at the 1974 NCAA DI Tourney and
6th
@
the 1975 NCAA DI Tourney...to become a 2-time All-American!
∙ 1975 PSAC Wrestling Championship
Preview
East Stroudsburg State College
NCAA
WRESTLING ARCHIVE
1973-74 East
Stroudsburg State College Team
▪ Front
(L-R) Billy Cuff,
Keith
Lichty,
Bill Luckenbaugh, Gary Kessel,
Mel Riddick.
▪
Back (L-R)
Don Lehman, Bob Stetler, Mike Stambaugh, Carl Seitz,
Phil Conlin,
Fred Swanson.
(red
- denotes West York HS graduate!)
note: 3 high school state champions in above photo...
(Billy Cuff - NJ, Bill Luckenbaugh - PA, Fred Swanson - NJ.)
ESU Warrior Football Club Member...Don Lehman
WY/ESU Grads Mike Stambaugh & Don Lehman
- '09 Football Outing
Bulldog Golf Open @ Cool Creek GC.
(L-R) Coach John T. Toggas, Don Lehman,
Jon Trenge, Matt Toggas.
▪ 1978 -
Scott Callahan (top) and Don Lehman
(bottom)
with their escorts at good friend... Keith Lichty's wedding.
(Huntingdon, PA - near State College)
▪
Golf @ Marriott Seaview Resort - in Atlantic City, NJ
with some
Pharmacia/Upjohn
(Pfizer) colleagues.
(Don Lehman, Raul
Jimenez, Gerri Kalita &
Sarah Gault)
▪ Don Lehman - @
West York Alumni Golf
▪ Don Lehman's 1999 Harley-Davidson Low-Rider TC1450cc.
▪ Don Lehman -
Owner/Webmaster
www.westyorkwrestlingalumni.com
2011 photo by
Don
Lehman
Don's 1999 H-D Lowrider
TC1450cc
(w/Thunderheader Exhaust)
01/10/09
West York 1977-78 Championship Team Reunion
▪
Front (L-R) Don Botterbusch, Bruce Stambaugh, Rod Stough, John Silar.
▪ Back (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
1/10/09 West York 78' Team Photo/Recap!
▪
Don Lehman - owner/webmaster
of westyorkwrestlingalumni.com
@ Randy Blasdell's 2009 Bulldog
Open
∙
Don Lehman...AmerisourceBergen Drug Co.
receiving award at Price Chopper Food Show.
(L-R) Randy Blasdell, Don Lehman,
PSU's Cael Sanderson & Scott Miller
2/8/13 PSU @ PITT DUAL MEET.
(Click on a "couple" of my
 favorites
from some younger days!)
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The Allman Bros. Band @
Fillmore East
(click album for one of the
BEST of the 70's!)
"I used to hear this
playing at the... House of Tape!"
"Some of
Don's Favorite Memories & Things"
OLD DOWNTOWN YORK, PA
(above)
I really liked
(like)...
▪ Classic Muscle Cars,
Classic
Rock, Motown Soul
Music, Weist's, Bear's Store,
Cars with 8-Track & Cassette
Decks,
Vinyl Albums with great artistic covers!,
York Newspapers that covered/printed
Junior High/Senior High mat results,
The "Old" York Fair...w/its "livestock barns" &
a double-lighted Ferris Wheel,
Triumph's, BSA's,
H-D's, Norton's @ Old
YF Memorial Day
Pro Flattrack Races!!,
Avalong's,
Gino Marchetti's (Gino's),
S&H Greenstamps @ Weis, The York Mall,
"Sandlot" Baseball and Football, J.M. Field's, Senft's Chips, Mailman's
Stores,
Yorktown Golf Course & Mt. Suribachi, Green's
Ice Cream/Dairy Bar, Shady Dell,
White
Oaks, Gem Store, Lincoln/Stony Brook Drive-In's, Ring-Necked Pheasants,
York US 30 Drag-O-Way, Elephant Hill, Lincoln Highway Garage, CAT,
Robbie's,
A
NHL Ice Hockey Game w/movable men and a NFL Electric Football Game!!,
PE Gym Class... w/Battle-Ball, Crab-Soccer,
Knee-Football &
the PE uniforms!
The Munsters, The Addams Family, Green Acres &
Jackie G's Honeymooner's TV,
The Tonight Show with
J. Carson/E. McMahon &...The Dean Martin Variety Show,
Harry Kalas & Richie "Whitey" Ashburn on...
Philadelphia Phillies
AM Radio,
Old Baseball Cards w/Bubblegum, Old Comic Books &
Cartoons, Hunt's Store,
Parents "yelling" for
their kids to come home for dinner after being outside
"playing
football and baseball" ALL day!,
The great York Barbell Softball Teams,
Burger King's Parking Lot, Barracuda Jackets, Jack
Purcell's, Desert Boots,
HO/Slot
Cars, Revell/AMT Car Models, Schwinn Sting-Ray Bikes, Christmas Day,
"Saturday's",
The Sounds of Streams!, Bass-Fishing, GI Joe's, Death Valley,
Box
Turtles, Salamanders, Snow..."when I don't have to shovel it!", Eggs,
East
Stroudsburg State College, Coffee, Golf w/good friends, Dale Earnhardt #3,
The North Mall, McCrory's, Two Guys
& Rutter's Dairy YF Chocolate Milkshakes!!
and of course -
"hanging out" in the WY
PE/Wrestling Office...
The
Allman Bros. & @
Callahan's "Spring
House!!"
York, PA
Fairgrounds 1/2 mile track
My 1st Bike (it was gold)
Don Lehman... remembering #3
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1973
West
York
HS
Alumnus
Don Lehman
▪ 1980 WY Staff - (L-R)
Don Lehman,
John Toggas &
John Sprenkle.
Don Lehman
WY '73 Alumnus
Don Lehman
WY '73 Alumnus
WEST YORK WRESTLING OPEN MAT
11/14/12 Chance Marsteller
Clinic
(L-R) Noah Townsley,
Allen Stauffer, Garrett Stauffer & Don Lehman.
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