1954 NCAA baseball season – Wikipedia

Baseball season

The 1954 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1954. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1954 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the eighth time in 1954, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Missouri claimed the championship.^[1]

Realignment[edit]

New program[edit]

• Texas Tech restarted its program, having been dormant since 1929. The Red Raiders played as an independent.

Conference winners[edit]

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1954 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. Twelve teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship, and eleven teams earned at-large selections.^[1][2]

Conference standings[edit]

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

	1954 Big Ten Conference baseball standings Conf Overall Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT Michigan State  ‍†‍‍y 11 – 2 – 0   .846 25 – 10 – 0   .714 Wisconsin  ‍‍‍ 10 – 3 – 0   .769 17 – 7 – 1   .700 Ohio State  ‍‍‍ 10 – 5 – 0   .667 20 – 11 – 0   .645 Michigan  ‍‍‍ 10 – 5 – 0   .667 22 – 9 – 0   .710 Northwestern  ‍‍‍ 7 – 6 – 0   .538 15 – 11 – 0   .577 Minnesota  ‍‍‍ 6 – 9 – 0   .400 17 – 14 – 0   .548 Iowa  ‍‍‍ 5 – 10 – 0   .333 10 – 15 – 1   .404 Indiana  ‍‍‍ 4 – 9 – 0   .308 12 – 14 – 0   .462 Purdue  ‍‍‍ 4 – 11 – 0   .267 13 – 13 – 0   .500 Illinois  ‍‍‍ 4 – 11 – 0   .267 16 – 15 – 0   .516 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1954[4][5] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball	1954 Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League baseball standings Conf Overall Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT Navy  ‍†‍‍y 8 – 1 – 0   .889 16 – 5 – 1   .750 Princeton  ‍‍‍ 6 – 2 – 0   .750 15 – 8 – 0   .652 Yale  ‍‍‍ 7 – 3 – 0   .700 16 – 12 – 0   .571 Army  ‍‍‍ 5 – 3 – 0   .625 11 – 7 – 0   .611 Cornell  ‍‍‍ 4 – 3 – 1   .563 11 – 6 – 1   .639 Brown  ‍‍‍ 3 – 3 – 1   .500 9 – 8 – 2   .526 Harvard  ‍‍‍ 3 – 5 – 0   .375 7 – 15 – 0   .318 Penn  ‍‍‍ 2 – 4 – 1   .357 7 – 11 – 1   .395 Dartmouth  ‍‍‍ 1 – 5 – 1   .214 5 – 16 – 1   .250 Columbia  ‍‍‍ 1 – 7 – 0   .125 5 – 9 – 0   .357 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament

College World Series[edit]

The 1954 season marked the eighth NCAA Baseball Tournament, which consisted of the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Missouri claiming their first championship with a 7–5 win over Texas in the final.^[1]

Award winners[edit]

All-America team[edit]

References[edit]