[3] This freestyle wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, with a slight modification.

[4] Herbert was the only wrestlers to win a second time by fall, staying at 0 points.

Flood, Tuvesson, and Zombori all finished the round with 1 point, having won once by decision and once by fall.

As he finished with fewer bad points than Tuvesson who was also eliminated in this round, however, Herbert earned the bronze medal.

Tuvesson finished fourth despite losing only once; his previous three wins by decision gave him too many points to continue after a single defeat.

[4] Zombori won his third consecutive match by fall, winning the gold medal after being pushed to the brink of elimination in the third round.