1944 NCAA swimming and diving championships

The 1944 NCAA swimming and diving championships were contested in March 1944 at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut at the eighth annual 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.

1944 NCAA swimming and diving championships
Host city	New Haven, Connecticut
Date(s)	March 1944
Venue(s)	Payne Whitney Gymnasium Yale University
Teams	15
Events	11
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Hosts Yale topped the team standings, thus capturing the Bulldogs' second title in program history. Yale finished one point ahead of perennial power Michigan.

Team standings

• (H) = Hosts
• (DC) = Defending champions
• Italics = Debut appearance

Rank	Team	Points
	Yale (H)	39
	Michigan	38
	Navy	24
	Ohio State (DC)
5	Columbia	22
6	Army	14
7	Williams	7
8	Brown	6
	Rochester
10	Cornell	5
11	Bowdoin	4
	Penn State
	Princeton
14	Minnesota	3
15	RPI	2

Individual events

Swimming

Event	Champion	Team	Time
50-yard freestyle	Alan Ford	Yale	22.2
100-yard freestyle	Alan Ford	Yale	49.7
220-yard freestyle	Eugene Rogers	Columbia	2:11.0
440-yard freestyle	Keo Nakama	Ohio State (DC)	4:47.0
1,500-meter freestyle	Keo Nakama	Ohio State (DC)	20:02.2
150-yard backstroke	Alan Ford	Yale	1:36.8
200-yard butterfly	Carl Paulson	Brown	2:28.3
400-yard freestyle relay	Merton Church Charles Fries William Kogen Gurdon Pulford	Michigan (DC)	3:35.0
300-yard medley relay	Robert Cowell Jack Manherz Harlie Mize	Navy	3:01.1

Diving

Event	Champion	Team	Score
One-meter diving	Charles Batterman	Columbia	122.40
Three-meter diving	Charles Batterman	Columbia	138.56

See also

• List of college swimming and diving teams