1948 NCAA gymnastics championships
Tournament information
SportCollegiate gymnastics
LocationIllinois Chicago, Illinois
Host(s)University of Chicago
Venue(s)Henry Crown Field House
Participants10 teams
Final positions
ChampionsPenn State (1st title)
1st runners-upTemple
2nd runners-upIllinois
Tournament statistics
All-Around
Champion(s)
Ray Sorensen, Penn State
← 1942
1949 →

The 1948 NCAA gymnastics championships were contested at the sixth annual NCAA-sanctioned gymnastics meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate gymnastics among its member programs in the United States.[1] Due to the interruptions of sporting events caused by World War II, these were the first championships held since 1942.

These championships were contested at the Henry Crown Field House at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

Penn State finished on top of the team standings, thus earning the Nittany Lions their first team gymnastics title.

The individual all-around championship was won by Ray Sorensen from Penn State.

Team results

Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Penn State 55
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Temple 34.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Illinois (DC) 22.5
4 Minnesota 14
5 California 12
6 Michigan 7
7 UCLA 5.5
8 Nebraska 1.5
9 Chicago (H) 1
USC

Individual events

With the addition of the trampoline event, the 1948 program featured eight individual national championship events:

Event Champion gymnast School
Pommel Horse Steve Greene Penn State
Vault Jim Peterson Minnesota
Parallel bars Ray Sorensen Penn State
Horizontal bar Joe Calvetti Illinois
Trampoline Gay Hughes Illinois
Tumbling George Szypula California
Rope climbing Ken Foreman USC
Flying rings George Hayes Temple

See also

References

  1. ^ "NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.