Bill Luckenbaugh
THE BALLAD OF BILLY THE KID
Bill Luckenbaugh
West York High School Wrestling
(Overall High School Career Record of 69-5-0)
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"And there was
Bill Luckenbaugh...('74
NCAA DII Champion)
who had
more pins than any wrestler in ESSC/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."
ESSC/ESU SID
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WILLIAM
LUCKENBAUGH
"LUCKY'S" High School
Career!
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3-time YCIAA Sectional Wrestling Champion.
(1967,
1968,
1969)
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2-time District III Wrestling Champion.
(1968,
1969)
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2-time Southeast Regional Wrestling Champion.
(1968,
1969)
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1968 PIAA State Wrestling 2nd Place @ 120lbs.
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1969 PIAA State Wrestling Champion @ 127lbs.
▪ 1967 Clearfield Holiday Tourney Champion.
▪ 1968 Carlisle Holiday
Tourney Champion & ow.
▪ Member of '64 WY
Junior High Championship Team.
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1968 PIAA State Wrestling 2nd Place
@
120lbs.
• 1968
PIAA Finals 120lbs. -
Norm Palovcsik
(Clearfield)
dec. Bill Luckenbaugh (West York)
11-8.
1969 PIAA State
Mat
Tourney
1969 PIAA State Wrestling
Finals @ 127lbs.
(L-R) West York's Bill Luckenbaugh
with coaches
John T. Toggas and Robert Bowers at Penn State's Rec Hall.
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1969 - West York's 127lb.
Bill Luckenbaugh (top) applies a bar
and decisions Andy Kolhepp (New Castle) 18-7
in the '69 PIAA State semi-final round.
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1969 PIAA State Wrestling Champion @ 127lbs.
• 1969
PIAA Finals 127lbs. - Bill Luckenbaugh (West York)
dec. Bob Pratt (Easton) 8-2.
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1969 - Bob Pratt of Easton (left) lifts
Bill Luckenbaugh
of West York
in
the PIAA State Wrestling Finals @ 127lbs.
▪ Luckenbaugh decisioned Pratt, 8-2 and
claims the 1969 Pennsylvania State Wrestling
Championship!
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Looking Back... 43
Years!
1969 PIAA State Wrestling Champions
Front (L-R)
Tom Teagarden, McGuffey; Rich Panella, New Castle;
Carl "Chico" Lutes, Easton;
Leslie Peterson, Canon-McMillan;
Bill Luckenbaugh, West York; Dan Howard, Allentown Dieruff.
Back (L-R) Kevin Love, Carnegie; George Myers, Dallastown;
Wade
Schalles, Hollidaysburg; Robert Sacavage, Mt. Carmel;
Rodney Smith, Mt. Lebanon;
John Sprenkle, West York.
@ Penn State University's Rec Hall
32nd Annual
1969 PIAA State
Wrestling Championship Finals
3/15/69
@ Penn State's Recreation Hall
95lbs. Tom Teagarden (McGuffey) dec. Ed Matsko (Jenner Boswell) 6-2
103lbs. Rich Panella (New Castle) dec. Dan Gallaher (Phillipsburg Osceola)
1-0 ot
112lbs. Carl Lutes (Easton) pinned Allen Andrews (Johnstown) 1:20
120lbs. Leslie Peterson (Canon McMillan) dec. Dave Clark (Clearfield) 10-9
127lbs. Bill Luckenbaugh (West York) dec. Robert Pratt (Easton) 8-2
133lbs. Dan Howard (Dieruff) dec. Rob Stover (Penns Valley) 6-0
138lbs. Kevin Love (Carnegie) dec. Barry Snyder (Easton) 4-3
145lbs. George Myers (Dallastown) dec. Rick Lepley (Jenner Boswell) 10-4
154lbs. Wade Schalles (Hollidaysburg) pinned John Chatman (Trinity) 4:58
165lbs. Robert Sacavage (Mt. Carmel) dec. Bruce Jones (Newport) 7-4
180lbs. Rodney Smith (Mt. Lebanon) dec. Scott Moyer (Mifflinburg) 9-6
Hwt. John Sprenkle (West York) pinned Joel Kislin (Wilkes-Barre GAR) 5:12
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PIAA Officials: Charles
Kunes, Dr. George Brett, George Custer, Manuel Pihakis.
1969 PIAA State
Wrestling Semi-Final
Matches
127lbs.
Robert Pratt (Easton) dec. R. Musser (Bellefonte) 11-6.
Bill Luckenbaugh (West York) dec. Andy Kolhepp (New Castle) 9-7.
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Hwt.
Joel Kislin (Wilkes Barre GAR) dec. James Carmanna (Mt. Lebanon) 6-1.
John Sprenkle (West York) pinned Jeff Knarr (Lock Haven)
3:41.
▪ 1969 PIAA State
Wrestling Scoring Book w/results
(PDF)
CLICK
HERE!
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BILL LUCKENBAUGH - WEST YORK
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1969 1st Team High School All-American
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"Additional" Bill Luckenbaugh
Photos...
▪ 1964 West York Junior
High Wrestling Championship Team -
CLICK HERE!
▪ 1965 West York Junior
High Wrestling Team Photo -
CLICK HERE!
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1968 Bill Luckenbaugh
Carlisle Wrestling Tourney "OW" -
CLICK HERE!
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1968 Bill Luckenbaugh
Individual Photo -
CLICK HERE!
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1969 PIAA Semi-Finals Photo
of Bill Luckenbaugh -
CLICK HERE!
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1969 PIAA Semi-Finals Photo
of Bill Luckenbaugh -
CLICK HERE!
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1969 PIAA Finals Photo of
Bill Luckenbaugh w/WY Coaches -
CLICK HERE!
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1969 PIAA Finals Photo of
Bill Luckenbaugh -
CLICK HERE!
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1969 PIAA Finals Photo of
Bill Luckenbaugh -
CLICK HERE!
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1969 PIAA Photo of the
Luckenbaugh's -
CLICK HERE!
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1983 Photo of
Bill Luckenbaugh DIII Hall of Fame Induction -
CLICK HERE!
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1968 CARLISLE BUFFALO TOURNEY
1968 Carlisle Holiday
Tournament
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'68 Carlisle
Outstanding
Wrestler - Bill Luckenbaugh, West York HS.
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1969 YCIAA SECTIONALS
1969 YCIAA Sectional
Wrestling Champions
▪ West York's - Bill Luckenbaugh (2nd from left front row),
Larry Haas (4th from left front row), Frank Vega (6th from left front
row),
John Sprenkle (6th from left back row).
There are 4 PIAA State Wrestling Champions...
in the above photo!!
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Along with
Bill Luckenbaugh '69 and John Sprenkle '69 from West York...
Dallastown's George Myers '69 (2nd from left back row)
and Dick Hartman '70 (5th from left
back row) won PIAA State titles!
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1963-64 West York Junior High
Wrestling
Bill Luckenbaugh - (front left)
EAST STROUDSBURG STATE COLLEGE WRESTLING
Bill Luckenbaugh's Complete ESU Wrestling Career Stats/Results!
SPORTS
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Closer To Home
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Looking Back... 37 Years Ago!!
The York Daily Record
ARCHIVES
February 25, 1974
LUCKENBAUGH TRIUMPHS!
1974 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
College Wrestling Championships
February 23, 1974
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▪
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, 129 1/2, and Bloomsburg,
80 points. 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. SR's
Shuffstall won the PSAC
championship at 190lbs defeating Jim Zoschg of Millersville State,
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.
1974 PSAC Results Page
▪ Bill Luckenbaugh,
Bob Stetler and Don Lehman are slated to
travel
and
compete in the 1974 NCAA Division II National Mat Tourney
Friday and Saturday at the Cal-State University Fullerton Gym,
Orange County, California.
2/23/74
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Division II Wrestling
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"Lucky's" ESSC Career
Match-By-Match!
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West York's NCAA DII Wrestling
Champion Bill Luckenbaugh
ESSC '74
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1974 NCAA DII's
- "Lucky" &
Lehman - were...
click...
"Going to California!"
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1974 NCAA DII Championship Wrestling Results - 3/1-2, 1974
WRESTLING ARCHIVED YDR ARTICLE
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ESSC Wrestling Fact
▪ While at East Stroudsburg State
College ...
Bill Luckenbaugh
pinned 59 of his 85 opponents
for a .694 pinning percentage !!
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Click - ESU All-Time Wrestling
Letterwinners
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(Back) ESU Head Wrestling Coach Clyde "Red" Witman.
(Front) ESU's Bill Luckenbaugh (150lbs.), Don Lehman (190lbs.),
Bob Stetler
(158lbs.).
1974 - NCAA DII Wrestling
Championships
East Stroudsburg State College - 7th Place
(39 1/2pts)
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Cal-State Fullerton University
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THE POCONO RECORD
March - 1974
SPORTS
"Billy The Kid"
Induction into the '83 District III
Mat Hall of Fame
1969 PIAA State Wrestling Champion...
William Luckenbaugh
of West York High School - (left)
with West York Wrestling Head Coach John T. Toggas.
(Bill's brother Dana - 1965 PIAA State Champ,
is in back of photo)
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2011 Elizabethtown HS Hall of Fame Induction
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Bill Luckenbaugh - former E-Town Head Mat Coach.
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