1955 NCAA baseball season

1955 NCAA baseball season
NCAA Tournament
College World Series
Champions	Wake Forest
Runners-up	Western Michigan
MOP	Tom Borland (Oklahoma A&M)
Seasons

The 1955 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1955. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1955 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the ninth time in 1955, 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. Wake Forest claimed the championship.^[1]

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1955 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. 12 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 13 teams earned at-large selections.^[1]^[2]

Conference	Regular Season Winner
Atlantic Coast Conference	Wake Forest
Big Seven Conference	Oklahoma
Big Ten Conference	Ohio State
CIBA	Southern California
EIBL	Harvard
Mid-American Conference	Western Michigan
Pacific Coast Conference	Oregon
Southeastern Conference	Alabama
Southern Conference	West Virginia
Southwest Conference	Texas A&M

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1955 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Wake Forest †^y	11	–	3	.786	29	–	7	.806
NC State	10	–	4	.714	14	–	5	.737
North Carolina	8	–	5	.615	12	–	12	.500
South Carolina	7	–	7	.500	10	–	10	.500
Duke	6	–	6	.500	10	–	11	.476
Maryland	6	–	7	.462	9	–	11	.450
Clemson	5	–	9	.357	7	–	11	.389
Virginia	0	–	12	.000	6	–	16	.273

† – Conference champion y – Invited to the 1955 NCAA Baseball Tournament As of June 30, 1955^[3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

1955 Big Seven Conference baseball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Oklahoma †^y	9	–	1	.900	13	–	10	.565
Missouri	9	–	3	.750	14	–	6	.700
Nebraska	10	–	4	.714	15	–	5	.750
Colorado	5	–	6	.455		–		–
Iowa State	5	–	8	.385		–		–
Kansas State	2	–	10	.167	4	–	11	.267
Kansas	2	–	10	.167	6	–	16	.273

† – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1955^[4]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

College World Series

The 1955 season marked the ninth 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 Wake Forest claiming their first championship with a 7–6 win over Western Michigan in the final.^[1]

First Round			Second Round			Third Round

Winner's Bracket
	Oklahoma A&M	5
	Springfield	1
				Oklahoma A&M	4
				Western Michigan	5
	Western Michigan	4
	Arizona	1
							Western Michigan	9
							Wake Forest	0
	Colorado State	2
	Southern California	1
				Colorado State	0
				Wake Forest	10
	Wake Forest	1
	Colgate	0
			Loser's Bracket
				Springfield	0
				Arizona	6		Colorado State	0
							Arizona	20
				Southern California	4
				Colgate	6		Oklahoma A&M	4
							Colgate	2

Semifinals

Finals

if needed

Re-ordered Semi-finals

Western Michigan

Wake Forest

Oklahoma A&M

Arizona

Oklahoma A&M

5¹²

Award winners

All-America team

References

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 2, 2013.
↑ "NCAA Men's College World Series Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. p. 7. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
↑ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1955". Boyd's World. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
↑ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1955". Boyd's World. Retrieved August 1, 2013.

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