1954 NCAA 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]

1954 NCAA baseball season
NCAA Tournament
College World Series
Champions	Missouri (1st title)
Runners-up	Rollins (1st CWS Appearance)
Winning Coach	Hi Simmons (1st title)
MOP	Tom Yewcic (Michigan State)
Seasons

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.

New program

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

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 Conference	Clemson
Big Seven Conference	Missouri
Big Ten Conference	Michigan State
CIBA	Southern California
EIBL	Navy
Mid-American Conference	Ohio
Pacific Coast Conference	Oregon
Southeastern Conference	Georgia
Southern Conference	Virginia Tech
Southwest Conference	Texas

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1954 Big Seven Conference baseball standings Conf     Overall Team W   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 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

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	9^11
		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	5^14

Semifinals

Finals

if needed

Re-ordered Semi-finals

Rollins

2

Rollins

1

Michigan State

3^10

Missouri

4

Michigan State

3

Missouri

4

Missouri

7

Oklahoma A&M

3

Award winners

All-America team

Main article: 1954 College Baseball All-America Team

References

1. 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.
4. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. p. 101. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
5. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1954". Boyd's World. Retrieved June 16, 2020.