"And there was Bill Luckenbaugh...
     who had more pins than any wrestler in ESU history.
     One night in Wilkes-Barre, Lucky took the mat against
     Wilkes' College top wrestler - NCAA DIII Champ Mike Lee.
     The match started, and the PA announcer was saying...
     "This is the match you have been waiting for - it's Bill Lucken.....!!"
     Suddenly, he sputtered and stopped, Lucky had already sunk in
     an arm-bar and had his opponent headed for a fall."
     ∙ The late Pete Nevins' Final Column for the Pocono Record...1/8/07
 

  The Stroud Courier
    ARCHIVES
     VOL. LXII No. 19
     East Stroudsburg State College, East Stroudsburg, PA
     March 8, 1974
  Lucky Gets Crown And Trophy!
     Cal State University - Fullerton, CA
    ▪ Senior wrestler Bill Luckenbaugh proved his grappling powers again this weekend breezing
  through the NCAA College Division II wrestling championships at Fullerton, California.  Lucky, top seeded
  at 150 pounds, pinned Roger Warner of Cal Poly San Louis Obispo in 3:35 of the final round match.
  This was his fourth pin in five tournament matches and it enabled him to win a trophy for the most pins.
  Lucky also was second to Bloomsburg's 177lb. Floyd Hitchcock in the outstanding wrestler balloting.
   Bob Stetler, another "Warrior Wonder," took 3rd in the 158 pound class winning four consolation matches.
  Stetler's biggest win came in a 9-2 thrashing of Mike Turnbull of the University of Akron, who earlier had
  eliminated him from the championship competition.  Turnbull decisioned Stetler 5-4 when his trick knee
  went out on him.  Coach "Red" Witman felt that if it had not been for the injury he could have conceivably
  gone on to win the title.  Don Lehman, only a freshman at 190 pounds for ESSC, won one match in the
  championship round, defeating a Northern Iowa grappler 3-2, and then fell to Mankato State's Kurt Kuehl
  by fall (4:56) in the quarterfinal match.  Lehman won one consolation match on Saturday before losing
  to Kuehl for a second time, just missing out on All-American status in the 1974 NCAA DII tourney.
            ▪ With only Lucky, Stetler and Lehman competing for East Stroudsburg State,
               the trio managed to score high enough for "seventh place" out of forty colleges.

        
      ▪ Winning the final round enabled Lucky to go on to the NCAA Division I championships March 14-16
    at Iowa State University.  ESSC's only other NCAA champion was Rich Schumacher, who  
    won the heavyweight college division (DII) title in 1970.
 

  1974 NCAA DII National Champions
   118lbs. - Terrence Perdew (Old Dominion)
   126lbs. - Tom Garcia (Northern Iowa)
   134lbs. - Jim Miller (Northern Iowa)
   142lbs. - Ken Snyder (Northern Iowa)
   150lbs. - Bill Luckenbaugh (East Stroudsburg)
   158lbs. - Cliff Hatch (Cal Poly SLO)
   167lbs. - Ron Sheehan (Bloomsburg)
   177lbs. - Floyd Hitchcock (Bloomsburg) *ow
   190lbs. - Keith Leland (Cal Poly SLO)
   Unl.       - Jim Woods (Western Illinois)
 

  
  The York Daily Record
   ARCHIVES
   February 25, 1974
  LUCKENBAUGH TRIUMPHS! 
  1974 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
  College Wrestling Championships
     February 23, 1974 - West York's Bill Luckenbaugh, the top-seeded entry from
   East Stroudsburg State College, captured the 150lb. crown of the Pennsylvania State College
  Wrestling Conference championships held Saturday on the Slippery Rock State wrestling mats.
  Luckenbaugh is a senior and the ESSC captain. Luckenbaugh, who upped his season's record to
  22-0, nipped Mike Waller of Slippery Rock with a 5-4 decision in the finals. He had pinned Bill
  Davis of Clarion in 1:42 in the semi-finals Saturday, and he also had a 3:16 fall at the expense
  of Rich Schumacher of Indiana, Pa. Bob Stetler of ESSC also won the PSAC 158lb title.
  East Stroudsburg finished fourth in the meet with 68 points. Clarion won the team laurels for
  the fourth straight season with 156 1/2 points, followed by Slippery Rock State, 129 1/2,
  and Bloomsburg State, 80. Lock Haven was fifth in the 13-team field with 60 1/2 points.

     ▪ Another West Yorker, Don Lehman, was third in the 190lb division, defeating Tom
  Schweinburg of Indiana, 12-2 in the consolation finals. Lehman (4-1) had bowed to
  Bill Shuffstall of Slippery Rock, 6-1, in the championship 190lb. semi-final round.
  Shuffstall won the PSAC championship at 190lbs defeating Jim Zoschg (MI), 7-1.
     ▪ Two other former West York Bulldogs who competed for East Stroudsburg State
  were Mike Stambaugh, (0-2) at 177lbs., and 126-pounder Keith Lichty, who finished
  with a (2-2) mark. Both did not place in the tournament.

            
              ▪ Bill Luckenbaugh, Bob Stetler and Don Lehman are slated to travel and
          compete in the NCAA Division II national tourney Friday and Saturday
          at the Cal-State University Fullerton Gym, Orange County, California.