Thomas Boak
Thomas Boak
Year: '14
Team: Cornell

      *THOMAS BOAK, Cornell ‘14 was a three-time EIWA champion from 1912-14 at 115 and 125 pounds. Considered one of the finest technical wrestlers in the first half century, he never lost a bout in three years, led his team to three league championships and was team captain as a senior. A member of the executive committee on Cornell's board of trustees, he died in 1969, before he was selected as a charter member of the Cornell University Hall of Fame in 1978.  He had three sons who graduated from Cornell in 1939, 1941, and 1950 and a grandson in the class of 1969.  Boak worked as manager of Winchester Repeating Arms Co., in New Haven, Connecticut.