1944 NCAA swimming and diving championships

1944 NCAA swimming and diving championships
Host cityConnecticut New Haven, Connecticut
Date(s)March 1944
Venue(s)Payne Whitney Gymnasium
Yale University
Teams15
Events11
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The 1944 NCAA swimming and diving championships were contested in March 1944 at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut at the eighth annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving among its member programs in the United States.

Hosts Yale topped the team standings, thus capturing the Bulldogs' second title in program history. Yale finished one point ahead of perennial power Michigan.[1]

Team standings

  • (H) = Hosts
  • (DC) = Defending champions
  • Italics = Debut appearance
Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yale (H) 39
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Michigan 38
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Navy 24
Ohio State (DC)
5 Columbia 22
6 Army 14
7 Williams 7
8 Brown 6
Rochester
10 Cornell 5
11 Bowdoin 4
Penn State
Princeton
14 Minnesota 3
15 RPI 2

Individual events

Swimming

Event Champion Team Time
50-yard freestyle Alan Ford Yale 22.2
100-yard freestyle Alan Ford Yale 49.7
220-yard freestyle Eugene Rogers Columbia 2:11.0
440-yard freestyle Keo Nakama Ohio State (DC) 4:47.0
1,500-meter freestyle Keo Nakama Ohio State (DC) 20:02.2
150-yard backstroke Alan Ford Yale 1:36.8
200-yard butterfly Carl Paulson Brown 2:28.3
400-yard freestyle relay Merton Church
Charles Fries
William Kogen
Gurdon Pulford		 Michigan (DC) 3:35.0
300-yard medley relay Robert Cowell
Jack Manherz
Harlie Mize		 Navy 3:01.1

Diving

Event Champion Team Score
One-meter diving Charles Batterman Columbia 122.40
Three-meter diving Charles Batterman Columbia 138.56

See also

References

  1. ^ "NCAA Men's Division I Swimming and Diving Championship" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 7–9. Retrieved August 9, 2016.