1956 NCAA swimming and diving championships
1956 NCAA swimming and diving championships | |
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Host city | New Haven, Connecticut |
Date(s) | March 1956 |
Venue(s) | Kiputh Pool Payne Whitney Gymnasium Yale University |
Teams | 23 |
Events | 14 |
← 1955 1957 → |
The 1956 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.[1]
Ohio State once again retained the national title, the Buckeyes' tenth, after finishing fourteen points ahead of hosts Yale
in the team standings.
Program
- The 150 yard individual medley was dropped from the program after seven years (1949–1955).
- The 200 yard individual medley was added to the program.
Team standings
- (H) = Hosts
- (DC) = Defending champions
- Italics = Debut appearance
Rank | Team | Points |
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Ohio State (DC) |
68 | |
Yale (H) | 54 | |
Oklahoma |
28 | |
4 | Iowa | 27 |
5 | NC State |
25 |
6 | Indiana |
22 |
7 | Stanford |
19 |
8 | Cortland State | 15 |
Harvard
| ||
10 | Northwestern |
14 |
11 | Michigan | 10.5 |
12 | North Carolina |
9.5 |
13 | SMU |
8 |
14 | Iowa State |
7 |
15 | Army |
2 |
Bowdoin
| ||
Miami (OH)
| ||
USC
| ||
Texas A&M
| ||
20 | Alleghany |
1 |
Amherst
| ||
California
| ||
Lehigh
|
Individual events
Swimming
Event | Champion | Team | Time |
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50 yard freestyle | Robin Moore Rex Aubrey |
Stanford Yale |
22.1 |
100 yard freestyle | Al Kuhn | Northwestern | 49.3 |
220 yard freestyle | William Woolsey |
Indiana | 2:04.7 |
440 yard freestyle | William Woolsey |
Indiana | 4:31.1 |
1,500 meter freestyle | George Breen | Cortland State | 18:05.9 |
100 yard backstroke | Lincoln Hurring | Iowa | 58.1 |
200 yard backstroke | Lincoln Hurring | Iowa | 2:07.5 |
200 yard breaststroke | Richard Fadgen | NC State | 2:23.1 |
200 yard butterfly | Richard Fadgen | NC State | 2:16.3 |
200 yard individual medley | Albert Wiggins | Ohio State | 2:07.5 |
400 yard freestyle relay | Daniel Cornwell Joseph Robinson David Armstrong Hendrik Gideonse |
Yale (DC) | 3:23.1 |
300 yard medley relay | William Clinton Daniel Cornwell Rex Aubrey |
Yale | 2:46.3 |
Diving
Event | Champion | Team | Score |
---|---|---|---|
1 meter diving | Frank Fraunfelter | Ohio State | 514.10 |
3 meter diving | Donald Harper | Ohio State | 505.35 |
See also
References
- ^ "NCAA Men's Division I Swimming and Diving Championship" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 7–9. Retrieved August 14, 2016.