1954 NCAA baseball season

1954 NCAA baseball season
NCAA Tournament
College World Series
Champions Missouri
Runners-up Michigan State
MOP Tom Yewcic (Michigan State)
Seasons

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

Seven teams (Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, NC State, South Carolina, and Wake Forest) departed the Southern Conference. They, together with Virginia, created the new Atlantic Coast Conference. Both leagues adopted single division formats, instead of the SoCon's previous two division format. Neither conference held a postseason tournament in 1954.

Conference winners

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 Regular Season Winner
Atlantic Coast ConferenceClemson
Big Seven ConferenceMissouri
Big Ten ConferenceMichigan State
CIBASouthern California
EIBLNavy
Mid-American ConferenceOhio
Pacific Coast ConferenceOregon
Southeastern ConferenceGeorgia
Southern ConferenceVirginia Tech
Southwest ConferenceTexas

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1954 Big Seven Conference baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
Missouri  ‍†‍‍y 11–1 .917  22–4 .846
Oklahoma  ‍‍‍ 8–4 .667  12–8 .600
Iowa State  ‍‍‍ 7–7 .500  – –
Kansas  ‍‍‍ 4–5 .444  10–6 .625
Colorado  ‍‍‍ 4–6 .400  – –
Nebraska  ‍‍‍ 4–8 .333  10–10 .500
Kansas State  ‍‍‍ 3–10 .231  8–12 .400
† – Conference champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1954[3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball
1954 Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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

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]

  First Round     Second Round     Third Round
                           
  Winner's Bracket
  Michigan State 16  
  Massachusetts 5    
      Michigan State 2  
      Arizona 1    
  Arizona 12          
  Oregon 1        
      Michigan State 4
      Rollins 5
  Rollins 911        
  Oklahoma A&M 5          
      Rollins 4    
      Missouri 1  
  Missouri 5    
  Lafayette 3  
  Loser's Bracket
  Massachusetts 5  
  Oregon 3     Missouri 8
    Massachusetts 1
  Oklahoma A&M 4  
  Lafayette 2     Arizona 4
    Oklahoma A&M 514
  Semifinals     Finals     if needed
                           
  Re-ordered Semi-finals
  Rollins 2       Rollins 1
  Michigan State 310           Missouri 4
      Michigan State 3    
      Missouri 4  
  Missouri 7    
  Oklahoma A&M 3  

Award winners

All-America team

References

  1. 1 2 3 W.C. Madden & Patrick J. Stewart (2004). The College World Series:A Baseball History, 1947-2003. McFarland & Co. pp. 28–31. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  2. ↑ "NCAA Men's College World Series Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. p. 7. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1954". Boyd's World. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
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