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1955 NCAA baseball season
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1955 NCAA baseball season 1955 NCAA Baseball Tournament NCAA Tournament 1955 College World Series College World Series Wake Forest 1st Western Michigan 2nd Taylor Sanford 1st Tom Borland Oklahoma A&M 1954 1956
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.https://books.google.com/books?id=ox665PJnDXQC The College World Series:A Baseball History, 1947-2003 W.C. Madden Patrick J. Stewart amp McFarland & Co. 2004 28–31 9780786418428 August 2, 2013
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.NCAA Men's College World Series Records http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/baseball_cws_RB/2009CWSfull.pdf NCAA August 2, 2013 7 2009
ConferenceRegular season winner Atlantic Coast Conference Wake Forest Big Seven Conference 1955 Oklahoma Sooners Oklahoma Big Ten Conference 1955 Ohio State Buckeyes Ohio State CIBA Southern California EIBL 1955 Harvard Crimson Harvard Mid-American Conference Western Michigan Pacific Coast Conference 1955 Oregon Ducks Oregon Rocky Mountain Conference Colorado State Southeastern Conference 1955 Alabama Crimson Tide Alabama Southern Conference 1955 West Virginia Mountaineers West Virginia Southwest Conference 1955 Texas A&M Aggies Texas A&M Yankee Conference 1955 Connecticut Huskies Connecticut
Conference standings
The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:
College World Series
1955 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.
Award winners
All-America team
1955 College Baseball All-America Team
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