1948 NCAA baseball season

The 1948 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1948. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1948 NCAA Baseball Tournament and 1948 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the second time in 1948, consisted of the two remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and was held in Kalamazoo, Michigan at Hyames Field as a best of three series. Southern California claimed the championship two games to one over Yale.[1]

1948 NCAA Division I baseball season
Tournament
Duration	June 16–26, 1948
College World Series
Duration	June 25–26, 1948
Champions	Southern California (1st title)
Runners-up	Yale (2nd CWS Appearance)
Winning Coach	Sam Barry & Rod Dedeaux (1st title)
Seasons

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1948 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. Conference champions had to be chosen, unless all conference champions declined the bid.[1]

Conference	Regular Season Winner	Conference Tournament	Tournament City	Tournament Winner
Big Nine	Illinois	No Conference Tournament
Big Seven	Nebraska	No Conference Tournament
CIBA	Southern California	No Conference Tournament
EIBL	Dartmouth	No Conference Tournament
Mid-American Conference	Ohio	No Conference Tournament
Missouri Valley Conference	Oklahoma A&M	1948 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament		Oklahoma A&M
Pacific Coast Conference North	Washington State	No Conference Tournament
Southeastern Conference	Mississippi State	No Conference Tournament
Southern Conference	North Carolina	No Conference Tournament
Southwest Conference	Texas	No Conference Tournament

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1948 Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League baseball standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT Dartmouth  ‍†‍‍ 7 – 1 – 0   .875     12 – 4 – 1   .735 Navy  ‍‍‍ 7 – 2 – 0   .778     14 – 7 – 0   .667 Yale  ‍‍‍^y 6 – 3 – 0   .667     21 – 9 – 1   .694 Army  ‍‍‍ 5 – 3 – 0   .625     16 – 7 – 0   .696 Cornell  ‍‍‍ 3 – 4 – 0   .429     8 – 9 – 0   .471 Columbia  ‍‍‍ 3 – 5 – 0   .375     7 – 5 – 0   .583 Penn  ‍‍‍ 3 – 5 – 0   .375     10 – 10 – 1   .500 Princeton  ‍‍‍ 3 – 6 – 0   .333     9 – 15 – 0   .375 Harvard  ‍‍‍ 2 – 4 – 0   .333     12 – 11 – 1   .521 Brown  ‍‍‍ 0 – 6 – 0   .000     2 – 11 – 0   .154 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament

1948 Pacific Coast Conference baseball standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT North Division Washington State  ‍†‍‍ 8 – 3 – 0   .727     21 – 7 – 0   .750 Oregon  ‍‍‍ 10 – 5 – 0   .667     12 – 6 – 0   .667 Washington  ‍‍‍ 8 – 7 – 0   .533     8 – 7 – 0   .533 Oregon State  ‍‍‍ 4 – 7 – 0   .364     7 – 7 – 0   .500 Idaho  ‍‍‍ 2 – 10 – 0   .167     10 – 12 – 1   .457 California Intercollegiate Baseball Association Southern California  ‍†‍‍^y 13 – 2 – 0   .867     26 – 5 – 0   .839 Santa Clara  ‍‍‍ 9 – 6 – 0   .600     15 – 11 – 0   .577 California  ‍‍‍ 8 – 3 – 0   .727     20 – 14 – 0   .588 Stanford  ‍‍‍ 5 – 9 – 0   .357     15 – 11 – 0   .577 UCLA  ‍‍‍ 5 – 10 – 0   .333     21 – 18 – 0   .538 St. Mary's  ‍‍‍ 4 – 10 – 0   .286     0 – 0 – 0   – † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament

NCAA tournament

The 1948 season marked the second NCAA Baseball Tournament, which consisted of eight teams divided into two brackets by region. The Eastern Playoff was held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina while the Western Playoff was held in Denver, Colorado. Unlike the previous year, a double-elimination format was used. The winner of each bracket advanced to the College World Series in Kalamazoo, MI, where Southern California defeated Yale in a best of three series.

	College World Series
		Southern California	3	3	9
		Yale	1	8	2

Award winners

All-America team

References

1. W.C. Madden & Patrick J. Stewart (2004). The College World Series:A Baseball History, 1947-2003. McFarland & Co. pp. 11–14. ISBN 9780786418428. Retrieved March 24, 2013.