Hall of Fame
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
- Team: 1969-70 Wrestling Team
- Record: 19-0
In addition to the Hall of Fame inductees listed above, Slippery Rock will also recognize the 1969-70 wrestling team with a special recognition during the annual induction ceremony. The special recognition is reserved for honoring team and group accomplishments. The 1969-70 wrestling squad was originally scheduled to be honored in 2020 for their 50th anniversary, but the pandemic canceled that ceremony and the group decided to move to 2022 to allow more members to attend.
The 1969-70 team was coached by Fred Powell and led by eventual Olympic bronze medalist and world championship gold medalist Stan Dziedzic, who went a perfect 17-0 in dual matches and finished the season with a 37-1 overall record. The team also featured two other men that were undefeated in dual matches with Bill Schellhorn posting an 18-0-1 record and Dave Chalfont going 17-0. Dziedzic, Schellhorn and George Enos all won state titles that year to give SRU its first first three state champions.
A total of 13 men competed in dual matches in 1969-70 to help lead the team to a perfect 19-0 record, a significant improvement from the 1968-69 team that went 5-8 in dual matches. The Rock finished fifth in the PSAC tournament and 14th in the NCAA College Division tournament that year.
The 13 men that recorded dual match wins during the 1969-70 season included Dziedzic, Schellhorn, Chalfant, Enos, Len DeMeo, John Pawlish, Dan Grobe, Denny Hilgar, Bob Beckel, Mike Fatigante, Roger Washburn, Bill Foltz and Ralph Craig. Powell served as the head coach at SRU from 1967-91 and put together a stretch of 14 straight winning seasons that began with the 1969-70 squad.
