Correct............and
not correct at the same time. As I recall, at a tournament, there are various 'categories' of scoring, and the combined of all the events is what ultimately counts for the team. I think we were second overall more than once, maybe 3 times, and were 3rd several times. But also, remember, that was a small field. The main competitors were ETSU, WVU, Tenn Tech, one (or two) of the regional universities in KY (Murray, and/or Morehead?), and sometimes maybe one of the service academies (I want to say Air Force but think that may be wrong). I'm sure I'm leaving out some, but it's not like there were 100 teams that had that "sport" - way less than 50, methinks...... Seems like Tenn Tech and WVU were perennially the "big guns" (lol).........
OK, here's a link. I notice this only goes back to 1980, but my memory is that they had the championships well back in the '70s. In fact, I KNOW they did, because I was friends with some of those guys (and girls). Jon Akemon was here in the '70s, if not earlier. So I suppose some other organization besides the NCAA ran the championships before 1980.
NCAA Rifle Champtionships - only 1980+
.................Okay........here they are before that. So ETSU *did* win it in 1974 - only two years after Cusack's victory in 1972, and only 5 years after the Grantland Rice Bowl victory.........
Here it is, and I guess according to this it was administered by the NRA(??) Or maybe they're just the archivists?:
ETSU Champs in 1974
..........but in any event it wasn't the NCAA
yet..........
How weird to see UC-Berkeley there as rifle champions - even in the *late* '50s. Wow......
That last link has some interesting stuff in it.........like a national championship won by Virginia Intermont (which the press around here noted at the time, but didn't "ride" it to death, thankfully........)