*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.
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