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SJSU Wrestling Archives The Spartan Daily 12-5-80 |
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24th Annual Mumby Tournament |
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by Jerry McDonald |
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| All that is missing is the trapeze act. The 24th annual SJSU Mumby Tournament is a grouping of the finest wrestling teams in California, but what it really resembles is a circus. "With so much going on, it does have a circus-like atmosphere," said Spartan wrestling coach T.J. Kerr of the meet, which begins tomorrow morning at 10 in the Spartan Gym. The wrestling fan can gorge himself at that time with six matches going on simultaneously with one of the finest arrays of mat talent in the country. "It's a strong California field," Kerr said. "About the only tournament as strong would be the Arizona Invitational." The tournament Kerr speaks of contains Midwest powers such as Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, the Arizona schools and Iowa State. But even those powers would have their hands full with the 1980 Mumby field. The 10 teams besides host SJSU are Stanford, Sacramento State, Fresno State, UC Davis, Cal State Bakersfield, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Chico State, San Francisco State, Biola and Stanislaus State. The quality of the teams in the tournament was not lost by the ESPN cable network which will televise the finals of the Mumby on Saturday, Dec. 20 at 10 am, and twice the following day at 7 am and 12:30 pm. The televised finals will be featuring some tired wrestlers. Considering the size of the tournament, it sometimes takes a wrestler seven matches to win a championship. The Mumby is run on an Olympic tournament basis, with no seeding. "It's kind of a complicated way to run a tournament but at least there is no arguing over seeding about who is better than who," Kerr said. Wrestlers are eliminated from the tournament on a system of "bad marks/" After seven bad marks a participant is eliminated from the tournament. A win by pin, disqualification, default or by more than 12 points will result in no bad marks, while winning by 8 to 11 points would cause the wrestler to be assessed one-half. A win by seven or less points gives the grappler one bad mark, while a draw assess each man two. Losers can get up to four bad marks for a loss by pin, disqualification or default, and three for any loss. After a loss that results in the seventh bad mark, a wrestler is out, but, if he picks up the seventh bad mark during a win, he can remain in the tournament until he loses. Final team scoring id done by totaling team points for the top six finishers in each division. Wrestlers in the tournament receive an engraved belt buckle that gives the weight participated and Mumby Tournament logo. Kerr is expecting a large crowd. "There is usually good attendance for this tournament, simply because so many family members and friends show up from all the different schools," Kerr said. "If we have the kind of turnout form this area that we had for the Bakersfield match, we might not be able to get everyone in." Kerr considers Bakersfield, which tied the Spartans in a dual meet, and Cal Poly SLO as the toughest competition. SJSU has already met and destroyed Stanislaus State and Biola in dual meets. Among the highlights of the meet for the Spartans will be the quest of David Brouhard (177) to become the sixth four-time placer in Mumby history. Brouhard finished third in 1976. duplicated that performance in 1977 and finished second last year. Among the other four-time placers is Kerr's brother Tim, who finished sixth or higher from 1969-72. The tournament is named after former SJSU wrestling coach Hugh Mumby. Mumby coached at SJSU from 1952-69, and again in 1971. He coach current coach Kerr. |
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