Pre-NCAA intercollegiate championships

Before the various NCAA championships in the United States were inaugurated, intercollegiate national championships were conducted in sports that were destined to become part of the NCAA’s eventual offerings. Because these competitions were not sponsored by the NCAA (founded in 1906), generally the NCAA does not recognize them, even though the NCAA equivalent did not begin until years or decades later.

These contests were usually espoused in advance as competitions for the national championship. Many winners were recognized in contemporary newspapers and other publications as the "national intercollegiate" champions. (These are not to be confused with the champions of early 20th-century single-sport alliances of northeastern U.S. colleges that were named "Intercollegiate League" or "Intercollegiate Association." These leagues generally included some of the colleges that later became the Ivy League

Ivy League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...

, as well as an assortment of other northeastern universities.)

In the case of men’s basketball, there were even rival national championship tournaments for several years after the NCAA tournament began.

The following intercollegiate championships (conducted before or at the same time as each sport's first NCAA championships) were decided by actual competitions (not consensus or retroactive selections):

Baseball

1893 Yale def. Amherst, 9-0

Tournament was played at the Chicago World's Fair and included Virginia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Vanderbilt, Yale, Amherst, Wesleyan and Vermont. William McKinley

William McKinley

William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

attended the opening game. It was organized by the Columbian National Inter-Collegiate Baseball Association, notably by its secretary, Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg was an American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football...

, then the new head football coach at the University of Chicago.

NCAA from 1947.
NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship tournament is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the College World Series....

Basketball

1908 Chicago def. Pennsylvania, 2 games to 0 (21-18, 16-15)

The Amateur Athletic Union
Amateur Athletic Union
The Amateur Athletic Union is one of the largest non-profit volunteer sports organizations in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs.-History:The AAU was founded in 1888 to...

(AAU) has annually conducted a United States championship tournament for amateur teams. College teams finished as runners-up in the AAU basketball championships in 1915, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1932, and 1934. Four college teams won the AAU basketball championship (final game results):

1916 Utah def. Illinois Athletic Club, 28-27
1920 New York University def. Rutgers, 49-24
1924 Butler (Indiana) def. Kansas City Athletic Club, 30-26
1925 Washburn College (Kansas) def. Hillyard Shine Alls, 42-30

1920 Pennsylvania def. Chicago, 2 games to 1 (24-28, 29-18, 23-21)

1922 Wabash College (Indiana) won the first national intercollegiate championship tournament
1922 National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament
The 1922 National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament was the first national championship tournament ever held in intercollegiate basketball. The 1921–22 Wabash College Little Giants team won the championship game, 43–23, over Kalamazoo College. The tournament was held among conference champions...

, which was held in Indianapolis. The champions of these conferences participated: Pacific Coast Conference
Pacific Coast Conference
The Pacific Coast Conference was a college athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pacific-12 Conference claims the PCC's history as part of its own, the older league had a completely different charter and was disbanded in 1959 due to a major crisis...

, Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS football programs were members of this conference at some point, as were at least 19 other schools...

, Western Pennsylvania League, Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was a college athletic conference that existed from 1908 to 1970 in the United States.-History:...

, Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association is an athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. The nine teams in the conference are all located in the states of Michigan and Indiana. The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association was established on March 24, 1888, making...

and Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Western Conference
Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its twelve member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Nebraska in the west to Pennsylvania in the east...

and Eastern Intercollegiate League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...

declined invitations to participate.

1935 Louisiana State def. Pittsburgh, 41-37, in a post-season game in Atlantic City that matched leading teams from the South and the Northeast. LSU claims this win in the "American Legion Bowl" as a national championship.

1938 Temple def. Colorado, 60-36 (First National Invitation Tournament
National Invitation Tournament
The National Invitation Tournament is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There are two NIT events each season. The first, played in November and known as the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off , was founded in 1985...

)

After the first NIT championship, the NCAA

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...

began its tournament the following year. In its early years, the NIT (played entirely in New York City) often drew the nation's best collegiate basketball teams for several reasons:

National media and recruiting exposure existed foremost in New York and not elsewhere.
The NCAA tournament had no at-large or non-conference teams, only automatic conference winners.
Many conferences, such as the SEC, were segregated by race; hosting non-segregated games at their campus sites was problematic.

Several teams played in both tournaments in the same year. In 1944 and 1948, the NCAA tournament winners lost their first games in the NIT tournament. Not until 1951 did the numbers of unique teams in the two annual tournaments exceed 19. The tournaments continued as rival national championships until gradually the NCAA tournament asserted dominance in the 1960s. As late as 1970, a top-ten ranked team spurned the NCAA tournament and accepted a bid to the NIT.

NIT Champions, 1939–1951:

1939 Long Island
1940 Colorado
1941 Long Island
1942 West Virginia
1943 St. John's
1944 St. John's
1945 DePaul

1946 Kentucky
1947 Utah
1948 Saint Louis
1949 San Francisco
1950 City College of New York
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...

(also won NCAA title)
1951 Brigham Young

1941 Southern def. North Carolina Central, 48-42, in the National Invitational Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament. This tournament was an African-American answer to the NIT, which failed to invite majority black schools at the time. Most black schools were located in the South and had a virtual monopoly on southern black talent during this era, as most southern white schools did not allow black students to attend.

Boxing

1924 Penn State def. 2nd-place Navy, 18-16
1925 Navy def. 2nd-place Penn State, 23-11
1926 Navy def. 2nd-place Penn State, 15-13
1927 Penn State def. 2nd-place Navy, 22-21
1928 Navy def. 2nd-place Penn State, 19-18
1929 Penn State def. 2nd-place Navy, 23-13
1930 Penn State def. 2nd-place Western Maryland
McDaniel College
McDaniel College is a private four-year liberal arts college in Westminster, Maryland, located 30 miles northwest of Baltimore. The college also has a satellite campus located in Budapest, Hungary. Until July 2002, it was known as Western Maryland College...

, 19-14
1931 Navy def. 2nd-place Western Maryland, 20-16

NCAA from 1932–1960.
NCAA Boxing Championship
The following is a list of NCAA Team Champions in Boxing. The National Collegiate Athletic Association discontinued the boxing championship after 1960; however in 1976, American collegiate boxing was picked up again by the National Collegiate Boxing Association....

Cross country

Inter-Collegiate Cross Country Association (1899–1907)

Inter-Collegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America

IC4A

IC4A or ICAAAA is an annual men's competition held at different colleges every year....

(1908–1937)

1899 Cornell
1900 Cornell
1901 Yale
1902 Cornell
1903 Cornell
1904 Cornell
1905 Cornell
1906 Cornell
1907 Cornell
1908 Cornell
1909 Cornell
1910 Cornell
1911 Cornell

1912 Harvard
1913 Cornell
1914 Cornell
1915 Maine
1916 Cornell
1917 Pennsylvania
1918 not held
1919 Syracuse
1920 Cornell
1921 Cornell
1922 Syracuse
1923 Syracuse
1924 Pittsburgh

1925 Syracuse
1926 Penn State
1927 Penn State
1928 Penn State
1929 Pennsylvania
1930 Penn State
1931 Harvard
1932 Manhattan
1933 Michigan State
1934 Michigan State
1935 Michigan State
1936 Michigan State
1937 Michigan State

NCAA from 1938.

Fencing

Intercollegiate Fencing Association (1894–1943)

Team Foils

1894 Harvard
1895 Harvard
1896 Harvard
1897 Harvard
1898 Columbia
1899 Harvard
1900 Harvard
1901 Navy
1902 Army
1903 Army

1904 Army
1905 Navy
1906 Army
1907 Navy
1908 Army
1909 Army
1910 Navy
1911 Cornell
1912 Army
1913 Columbia

1914 Columbia
1915 Navy
1916 Navy
1917 Navy
1918 Columbia
1919 Columbia
1920 Navy
1921 Navy
1922 Navy

Three-Weapon Championship

1923 Army †
1924 Navy
1925 tie: Yale, Navy
1926 Yale
1927 Army
1928 Yale
1929 Yale
1930 tie: Yale, Army

1931 Army
1932 Yale
1933 New York Univ.
1934 Columbia
1935 New York Univ.
1936 New York Univ.
1937 New York Univ.

1938 New York Univ.
1939 Navy
1940 New York Univ.
1941 New York Univ.
1942 New York Univ.
1943 Navy
1944 – 47 not held

† The first IFA three-weapon trophy was awarded in 1923. However, all three weapons (foil, épée, saber) were contested in the IFA tournament as early as 1920.

NCAA 1941 – 42 and from 1947.
NCAA Fencing team championship
NCAA fencing championship results, combined men and women , men's and women's .-Combined:Note: Team scoring in 1990 was based on weapon team events standings. From 1991 to 1994, point values increased due to fencers not qualifying as part of a team being able to contribute points from individual...

Golf

1897–1938

See College golf champions

NCAA from 1939.
NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships
The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf. It is a stroke play team competition, starting in 2009 the competition changed to a stroke play/match play competition with the top 8 teams after 54 holes of...

Gymnastics

1899 No team title. Yale gymnasts won 4 and tied 1 out of 6 individual events and also won the individual all-around. 19 schools participated.
1900 Columbia def. 2nd place Yale, 26 - 17
1901 Yale def. 2nd place Columbia, 20 - 14
1902 Yale def. 2nd-place Columbia, 16 - 15

In 1903, the Western Conference instituted an annual conference championship meet. Although early interest was expressed by the Intercollegiate Association in establishing a recognized national championship event with the Western Conference, that interest did not reach fruition. In later years, the University of Chicago, a perennial Western Conference power, participated in several of the annual championship meets of the Intercollegiate Association.

1917 Chicago def. 2nd-place Haverford, 14½ - 10
1918 not held
1919 not held
1925 Navy def. Chicago, 33 - 12, in a dual meet between winners of the Intercollegiate and Western Conference championship meets.

"[I]n the twenty year period from 1910 to (the end of 1929) ... Navy has participated in 91 tournaments and dual meets and won 87 of them, including all seven of the intercollegiate championship events entered." (Those seven events were conference, not national, championships.) Navy was so strong that the Intercollegiate Association asked Navy not to participate in the 1926 championship meet. Navy was not a participant in the 1926, 1927 and 1928 meets.

NCAA from 1938.
NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship
This is a list of National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Gymnastics champions, by division and year. All schools currently compete in one division, because only 17 schools sponsor men's gymnastics teams...

Lacrosse

1881 Harvard def. Princeton, 3-0

The first intercollegiate lacrosse tournament was held in 1881 with Harvard beating Princeton in the championship game. From this point through 1934, collegiate lacrosse associations chose an annual champion based on regular season records. The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association

United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association

The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association is an association of institutions with varsity college lacrosse programs in all three NCAA divisions, founded in 1885.-Awards:...

(USILA) was reorganized in 1929, and from 1934 through 1970 chose the Wingate Memorial Trophy

Wingate Memorial Trophy

The Wingate Memorial Trophy was the award given to the national champion in men's college lacrosse prior to the inception of an NCAA tournament format in 1971....

champion.

NCAA from 1971.
NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship
The annual NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament determines the top men's field lacrosse team in the NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III....

National Indoor Intercollegiate Match

1924 – 79

Men/Coed (year of conversion to Coed undetermined)

In the contemporary press, the type of competition utilized for this match was referred to as "shoulder-to-shoulder." This distinguished it from the "telegraphic" or "postal" form of competition.

1924 US Naval Academy

1925 US Naval Academy

1926 US Naval Academy

1927 George Washington

1928 * George Washington

1929 Iowa

1930 US Naval Academy

1931 US Naval Academy

1932 Cincinnati

1933 Minnesota

1934 US Naval Academy

1935 US Naval Academy

1936 Carnegie Institute of Tech.
Carnegie Institute of Technology
The Carnegie Institute of Technology , is the name for Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. It was first called the Carnegie Technical Schools, or Carnegie Tech, when it was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie who intended to build a “first class technical school” in Pittsburgh,...

(PA)

1937 US Naval Academy

1938 George Washington

1939 US Naval Academy

1940 Iowa

1941 Minnesota

1942 US Military Academy

1943-45 No competition

1946 † Iowa

1947 Maryland

1948 US Naval Academy

1949 Maryland

1950 US Military Academy

1951 MIT

1952 California

1953 Maryland

1954 Maryland

1955 California

1956 Nevada-Reno

1957 California

1958 California

1959 California

1960 Oregon State

1961 West Virginia

1962 Oregon State

1963 The Citadel

1964 West Virginia

1965 US Military Academy

1966 West Virginia

1967 US Naval Academy

1968 tie: Murray State, Montana State

1969 US Naval Academy

1970 Murray State

1971 Tennessee Tech

1972 Tennessee Tech

1973 Tennessee Tech

1974 East Tennessee State

1975 US Military Academy

1976 Texas Christian

1977 Tennessee Tech

1978 Murray State

1979 Tennessee Tech

1980 - NCAA after 1979

NCAA from 1980.
NCAA Rifle team championship
The NCAA Rifle Championship is an annual co-educational rifle national collegiate championship sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . The tournament includes an individual and team championships consisting of the two-day aggregate scoring of the smallbore competition and air...

* The Intercollegiate Rifle Team Trophy was presented to the NRA by the Sons of the American Revolution

Sons of the American Revolution

The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution is a Louisville, Kentucky-based fraternal organization in the United States...

in 1928, when it was first awarded for annual rifle competition.

† NRA document states that there was no competition in 1946.

NRA Intercollegiate League

1908 – 22

Competition was held in telegraphic form using the indoor ranges of each competing school.

1908 ?

1909 Washington State

1910 Washington State

1911 Iowa

1912 Massachusetts Agricultural

1913 West Virginia v. Harvard winner

1914 Michigan Agricultural

1915 Washington State

1916 Michigan Agricultural

1917 Michigan Agricultural

1918 Iowa

1919 Pennsylvania

1920 Norwich

1921 Norwich

1922 Pennsylvania

NRA Gallery Indoor Championship

1908 – ?

The indoor intercollegiate match was a single annual indoor match open to teams of any college. It was held in telegraphic form using the indoor ranges of each competing school.

1908 Columbia

1909 Washington State

1910 Massachusetts Agricultural

1911 Massachusetts Agricultural

1912 - 1922 ?

1923 Georgetown

1924 George Washington

1925 Washington

1926 ?

1927 Norwich

1928

1929

1930

1931

1932 Washington

1933 Washington State

1934 ... ?

National Outdoor Intercollegiate Match

1905 – ?

(This competition is not to be confused with the National ROTC outdoor rifle team championship for the William Randolph Hearst Team Trophy (first awarded circa 1922 ), which was not open to all students.)

1905 Princeton

1906 George Washington

1907 not held

1908 George Washington

1909 George Washington

1910 Massachusetts Agricultural

1911

1912

1913 Massachusetts Agricultural

1914 Massachusetts Agricultural or Michigan Agricultural

1915 MIT

1916 Norwich

1917

1918

1919

1920

1921 US Naval Academy

1922 Univ. of Dayton

1923

1924 Columbia

1925 ... ?

Skiing

1921 – 53

Beginning in 1921, an intercollegiate winter sports championship was held annually at Lake Placid, New York, and involved colleges from the US and Canada. It combined events from downhill and slalom skiing

Skiing

Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....

, cross country skiing and ski jumping

Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...

, as well as speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

, figure skating

Figure skating

Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

and snowshoeing in some years. The overall winning team received the President Harding Trophy. Prior to the 1940s, in end-of-year accounts of national sporting champions, major newspapers regarded the winning team at Lake Placid as intercollegiate champion.

In the late 1930s, a major annual "four-way" (downhill, slalom, jumping and cross-country) intercollegiate event began in Sun Valley, Idaho. From the start it attracted not only college teams from the West, but also strong teams that traditionally participated in the Lake Placid meet, such as Dartmouth. After interruption by World War II, it usurped the older event.

Newspaper coverage referred to the 1946 and 1947 Sun Valley winners (Utah and Middlebury, respectively) as national champions. A few days earlier than the 1947 Sun Valley meet, a similar skiing competition was held in Aspen, Colorado, overlapping the start date of the Sun Valley event. In 1948 and 1949, Aspen, rather than Sun Valley, hosted the national "four-way" intercollegiate ski championships.

All of these competitions were held in the middle of the ski season rather than at the end. Then in 1950, an official annual post-season national championship event was established. This event served to influence the NCAA to add skiing as a sponsored sport, with the first NCAA title event occurring in 1954.

The Intercollegiate Ski Union (ISU), a conference of schools primarily in the Northeast, also conducted annual championship events for its members. However, its geographic reach was more limited than the other competitions described.

Lake Placid, New York

1921 – 22 Dartmouth
1922 – 23 Dartmouth
1923 – 24 Dartmouth
1924 – 25 Williams College
1925 – 26 tie: Wisconsin, New Hampshire
1926 – 27 New Hampshire
1927 – 28 Wisconsin
1928 – 29 New Hampshire
1929 – 30 Dartmouth
1930 – 31 Dartmouth
1931 – 32 New Hampshire

1932 – 33 New Hampshire †
1933 – 34 Dartmouth
1934 – 35 Dartmouth
1935 – 36 Dartmouth
1936 – 37 cancelled, lack of snow
1937 – 38 Dartmouth
1938 – 39 McGill Univ.
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

(Montreal)
1939 – 40 Middlebury
1940 – 41 New Hampshire
1941 – 42 team point title not awarded ‡

1942 – 43 Middlebury
1943 – 44 Dartmouth #
1944 – 45 Dartmouth
1945 – 46 not held (housing difficulties)
1946 – 47 St. Lawrence Univ. (NY) §
1947 – 48 St. Lawrence Univ. (NY) §
1948 – 49 team point title not awarded ♦
1949 – 50 cancelled, lack of snow
1950 – 51 cancelled, not enough entries

† curtailed by bad weather (jump and snowshoe race held, last two events cancelled)

‡ lack of snow (cross country and jump held, downhill and slalom cancelled)

# competition included non-collegians

♦ lack of snow (jump held, other events cancelled)

§ not regarded as national champion; included for completeness

Sun Valley, Idaho

1937 - 38 Dartmouth
1938 - 39 no apparent team title (individual only)
1939 - 40 Washington
1940 - 41 Washington
1941 - 42 Washington
1942 - 46 not held
1946 - 47 Utah
1947 - 48 Middlebury

Aspen, Colorado

1947 - 48 Western State (CO) §
1948 - 49 Middlebury
1949 - 50 Denver

Post-Season National Championship

1950 Dartmouth (venue: Arapahoe Basin, Colorado)
1951 Denver (venue: Mt. Hood, Oregon)
1952 Denver (venue: Snow Basin, Utah)
1953 Washington State (venue: Snow Basin, Utah)

NCAA from 1954.

Soccer

During the periods 1926–35 and 1946–58, annual champions were selected by collegiate soccer associations

Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association

The NCAA held its first men's National Collegiate Soccer Championship in 1959, with eight teams selected for the tournament. Before 1959, unofficial champions were declared by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association . These were the result of polls and the subjective opinion of the ISFA...

based on regular season records. All are considered unofficial. For the period of 1936–45, each year's outstanding teams claim unofficial national championships. See also Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association

Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association

.

The Soccer Bowl (played in 1950–52) attempted to settle the national championship on the field for the 1949, 1950 and 1951 seasons. Each Soccer Bowl championship was played in January following the conclusion of the fall season.

1949 Penn State tied San Francisco
University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

, 2-2 (co-champs)
1950 Penn State def. Purdue, 3-1
1951 Temple def. San Francisco, 2-0

NCAA from 1959.

Tennis (Singles / Doubles)

1883–1945

See Collegiate individual tennis champions

NCAA from 1946.
NCAA Men's Tennis Championship
The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are held to crown a team, individual, and doubles champion in American college tennis. The first intercollegiate championship was held in 1883, 23 years before the founding of the NCAA, with Harvard's Joseph Clark taking the singles title...

Tennis (Indoor)

1929 Lehigh
Lehigh University
Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...

(PA)
1930 Lehigh
1931 Yale

Track and Field (Indoor)

Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America

IC4A

IC4A or ICAAAA is an annual men's competition held at different colleges every year....

(1923–1964)

1923 Pennsylvania
1924 Pennsylvania
1925 Georgetown
1926 Harvard
1927 Harvard
1928 Cornell
1929 New York Univ.
1930 Cornell, Pennsylvania
1931 Pennsylvania
1932 New York Univ.
1933 Yale
1934 Manhattan
1935 Manhattan
1936 Manhattan

1937 Columbia
1938 Columbia
1939 Manhattan
1940 New York Univ.
1941 Fordham
1942 Penn State
1943 New York Univ.
1944 Army
1945 Army
1946 not held
1947 New York Univ.
1948 New York Univ.
1949 Michigan State
1950 Michigan State

1951 Manhattan
1952 Manhattan
1953 Manhattan
1954 Yale
1955 Manhattan
1956 Manhattan
1957 Villanova
1958 Villanova
1959 Penn State
1960 Villanova
1961 Yale
1962 Villanova
1963 Villanova
1964 Villanova

NCAA from 1965.
NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship
NCAA team champions for Men's Indoor Track and Field-See also:*NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship*NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship*NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship*Pre-NCAA Indoor Track and Field Champions...

Track and Field (Outdoor)

Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America

IC4A

IC4A or ICAAAA is an annual men's competition held at different colleges every year....

(1876–1920)

1876 Princeton
1877 Columbia
1878 Columbia
1879 Columbia
1880 Harvard
1881 Harvard
1882 Harvard
1883 Harvard
1884 Harvard
1885 Harvard
1886 Harvard
1887 Yale
1888 Harvard
1889 Yale
1890 Harvard

1891 Harvard
1892 Harvard
1893 Yale
1894 Yale
1895 Yale
1896 Yale
1897 Pennsylvania
1898 Pennsylvania
1899 Pennsylvania
1900 Pennsylvania
1901 Harvard
1902 Yale
1903 Yale
1904 Yale
1905 Cornell

1906 Cornell
1907 Pennsylvania
1908 Cornell
1909 Harvard
1910 Pennsylvania
1911 Cornell
1912 Pennsylvania
1913 Pennsylvania †
1914 Cornell
1915 Cornell
1916 Cornell
1917 not held
1918 Cornell
1919 Cornell
1920 Pennsylvania

† A contemporary source states, as part of an "international athletic games" (similar to the Olympics) in Chicago on June 28—July 6, 1913, "The national intercollegiate track and field meet was won by the University of Michigan," with Southern California second and Chicago third.

NCAA from 1921.
NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship
The NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship is an annual collegiate outdoor track and field competition for men organised by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It has three divisions: Division I, II, and III. Athlete's individual performances earn points for their institution and...

Trampoline

Until 1969, men's trampoline was one of the events that comprised the NCAA gymnastics championships. At that time, the event was removed in order to conform to the international gymnastics itinerary. The NCAA continued to bestow a national title in trampoline for two years.

1969 Michigan
1970 Michigan

Discontinued after 1970.

Volleyball

United States Volleyball Association

USA Volleyball

USA Volleyball is a non-profit organization which serves as the national governing body of volleyball in the United States of America ....

(1949 – 69)

1949 Southern California
1950 Southern California
1951 University of Mexico
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...
1952 University of Mexico
1953 UCLA
1954 UCLA
1955 Florida State

1956 UCLA
1957 Florida State
1958 Florida State
1959 George Williams College (IL)
1960 George Williams College
1961 Santa Monica Community College
Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College is a two-year, public, junior college located in Santa Monica, California.Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study...
1962 Santa Monica Community College

1963 Santa Monica Community College
1964 Santa Monica Community College
1965 UCLA
1966 Santa Monica Community College
1967 UCLA
1968 San Diego State
San Diego State University
San Diego State University , founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area , and is part of the California State University system...
1969 UC Santa Barbara

NCAA from 1970.
NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship
The NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship is the tournament that determines the national championship of American college volleyball.The "Final Four" is a term used exclusively by NCAA Basketball but is commonly used to describe the Men's Volleyball Championship...

Water Polo

1913 Princeton 3, Illinois 1

NCAA from 1969.
NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship has existed since the 1969 season.No school from outside the state of California has ever surpassed third place...

Wrestling

1921 Penn State def. Indiana, 32-14, and Iowa Agricultural College, 28-18, in post-season dual meets among conference champions.

NCAA from 1928.
NCAA Wrestling Team Championship
The NCAA Wrestling Team Championship was first officially awarded in 1929 and began to be continuously awarded on an annual basis in 1934 except during World War II 1943-1945. In 1928 and from 1931 to 1933, there was only an unofficial title. Oklahoma A&M, now Oklahoma State, won the 1928, 1931...

AIAW Champions in 16 NCAA Sports

See AIAW Champions

AIAW Champions

The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women’s athletics and to administer national championships...

for listings of pre-NCAA champions for most of the current NCAA women's sports.

Basketball

See DGWS/AIAW Basketball Champions (1969–1982)

NCAA from 1982.
NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual college basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981–82 season...

The Amateur Athletic Union

Amateur Athletic Union

The Amateur Athletic Union is one of the largest non-profit volunteer sports organizations in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs.-History:The AAU was founded in 1888 to...

(AAU) has since 1926 conducted United States championship tournaments for women's amateur teams. On 28 occasions, small college teams (all from the central U.S.) have won the AAU women's basketball championship:

1932–33 (2) Oklahoma Presbyterian College
1934–36 (3) Tulsa Business College
1950, 58, 60, 62–69 (11) Nashville Business College
1954–57, 59, 61, 70–71, 74–75 (10) Wayland Baptist College (Texas)
1972–73 (2) John F. Kennedy College (Nebraska)

Bowling

United States Bowling Congress (formerly American Bowling Congress and Women's Intercollegiate Bowling Congress)

Year and Champion	Year and Champion	Year and Champion	Year and Champion
1975 Wichita State	1984 Indiana State	1993 William Paterson (NJ)	2002 Morehead State
1976 San Jose State	1985 West Texas State	1994 Wichita State	2003 Central Missouri State
1977 Wichita State	1986 Wichita State	1995 Nebraska	2004 Pikeville (Kentucky)
1978 Wichita State	1987 West Texas State	1996 West Texas State	2005 Wichita State
1979 Penn State	1988 West Texas State	1997 Nebraska	2006 Lindenwood (Missouri)
1980 Erie Community College (NY)	1989 Morehead State (Kentucky)	1998 Morehead State	2007 Wichita State
1981 Arizona State	1990 Wichita State	1999 Nebraska	2008 Pikeville
1982 Erie Community College	1991 Nebraska	2000 Morehead State	2009 Wichita State
1983 West Texas State	1992 West Texas State	2001 Nebraska	2010 Webber International (Florida)

The NCAA from 2004
NCAA Bowling Championship
The NCAA Bowling Championship is a sanctioned women's championship in college athletics. It was first held in April of 2004.-Champions:-NCAA Programs:*Division I...

has sponsored a women's team championship, apart from the USBC national championships. There were 60 schools in all divisions participating in NCAA bowling as of 9/1/09.

Fencing

Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association
National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association
The National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association is a women's collegiate fencing organization in the United States. The organization was founded as the IWFA in 1929 by two New York University students, Julia Jones and Dorothy Hafner and Betsy Ross, a student at Cornell University who based...

(1929 – 63)

National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association
National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association
The National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association is a women's collegiate fencing organization in the United States. The organization was founded as the IWFA in 1929 by two New York University students, Julia Jones and Dorothy Hafner and Betsy Ross, a student at Cornell University who based...

(1964 – 79)

Until 1974, schools from the states of New York and New Jersey won every foil team title.

Year	Foil Team	Year	Foil Team	Year	Foil Team
1929	New York University	1946	Hunter College	1963	Fairleigh Dickinson
1930	New York University	1947	Hunter College	1964	Paterson State College
1931	New York University	1948	Hunter College	1965	Paterson State College
1932	New York University	1949	New York University	1966	Paterson State College
1933	New York University	1950	New York University	1967	Cornell
1934	Brooklyn College	1951	New York University	1968	Cornell
1935	Hunter College	1952	Hunter College	1969	Cornell
1936	Hunter College	1953	Hunter College	1970	Hunter College
1937	Hunter College	1954	Elmira College	1971	New York University
1938	New York University	1955	Rochester Institute of Technology	1972	Cornell
1939	Hofstra University	1956	Paterson State College	1973	Cornell
1940	Hunter College	1957	Rochester Institute of Technology	1974	California State-Fullerton
1941	Brooklyn College	1958	Paterson State College	1975	San Jose State
1942	Jersey City State College	1959	Paterson State College	1976	San Jose State
1943	Jersey City State College	1960	Fairleigh Dickinson	1977	San Jose State
1944	Hunter College	1961	Paterson State College	1978	San Jose State
1945	Brooklyn College	1962	Paterson State College	1979	San Jose State

AIAW 1980 – 82 (3 years). NCAA 1982 – 89 (8 years). NCAA (Coed) from 1990.
NCAA Fencing team championship
NCAA fencing championship results, combined men and women , men's and women's .-Combined:Note: Team scoring in 1990 was based on weapon team events standings. From 1991 to 1994, point values increased due to fencers not qualifying as part of a team being able to contribute points from individual...

Ice Hockey

American Women's College Hockey Alliance

Year and Champion
1998 New Hampshire
1999 Harvard Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey The Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team represents Harvard University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I women's hockey. Harvard competes as a member of the ECAC Conference and plays its home games at the Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.-History:In the...
2000 Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey The Minnesota Golden Gophers women’s ice hockey team plays for the University of Minnesota at the Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis. The team is one of the members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Division I...

NCAA from 2001
NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship
The annual NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship tournaments determine the top women's ice hockey teams in NCAA Division I and Division III. Women's ice hockey does not have a Division II classification. Under NCAA rules, Division II schools are allowed to compete as Division I members in sports...

Rifle

National Rifle Association

Year and Champion	Year and Champion	Year and Champion
192?	1928 George Washington	1934 Washington
1923 Washington	1929 ?	1935 Carnegie Institute of Tech. Carnegie Institute of Technology The Carnegie Institute of Technology , is the name for Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. It was first called the Carnegie Technical Schools, or Carnegie Tech, when it was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie who intended to build a “first class technical school” in Pittsburgh,...
1924 Washington	1930 ?	1936 Carnegie Institute of Tech.
1925 Washington	1931 ?	1937 Carnegie Institute of Tech.
1926 ?	1932 Maryland	1938 - 53 ?
1927 George Washington	1933 Washington	1954 Monmouth

NCAA (Coed) from 1980
NCAA Rifle team championship
The NCAA Rifle Championship is an annual co-educational rifle national collegiate championship sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . The tournament includes an individual and team championships consisting of the two-day aggregate scoring of the smallbore competition and air...

Pre-NCAA Coed Rifle: see above

Rowing

The National Women's Rowing Association (NWRA) sponsored an annual open eights national championship from 1971–1979, among college and non-college teams. (There were no eights before 1971.) During this period, only in 1973 and 1975 did a college team win the national eights championship outright. According to US Rowing Association, contemporary news reports in 1976 and 1977 do not mention a national collegiate title. Beginning in 1980, the NWRA sponsored the Women's Collegiate National Championship, including varsity eights. In 1986 the NWRA dissolved after recognizing US Rowing's assuming of responsibility as the national governing body for women’s rowing.

NWRA Open National Championship, Eights top college finishers, 1971–1979 (champion in parentheses) :

1971 Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

(first place - Vesper Boat Club
Vesper Boat Club
Vesper Boat Club is an amateur rowing club located at #10 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1865 as the Washington Barge Club, the Club changed its name to Vesper Boat Club in 1870...

)
1972 Washington (first place - College Boat Club
College Boat Club
College Boat Club of the University of Pennsylvania is the rowing program for University of Pennsylvania Rowing, located at #11 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its membership consists entirely of past and present rowers of the University of Pennsylvania...

)
1973 Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...

(NWRA open champion)
1974 Radcliffe College (first place - Vesper Boat Club)
1975 Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

(NWRA open champion)
1976 Wisconsin (first place - College Boat Club)
1977 Wisconsin (first place - Vesper Boat Club)
1978 Wisconsin (first place - Burnaby Boat Club)
1979 Yale
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

(first place - Burnaby Boat Club)

NWRA / US Rowing Women's Collegiate National Championship, Varsity eights :

Year and Champion	Year and Champion	Year and Champion	Year and Champion
1980 California	1985 Washington	1989 Cornell	1993 Princeton
1981 Washington	1986 Wisconsin	1990 Princeton	1994 Princeton
1982 Washington *	1987 Washington	1991 Boston University	1995 Princeton
1983 Washington	1988 Washington	1992 Boston University	1996 Brown
1984 Washington	1988 Washington	1992 Boston University	1996 Brown

* simultaneous AIAW championship, the only one conducted

Followed by NCAA from 1997
NCAA Rowing Championship
The NCAA Rowing Championship is a rowing championship held by the NCAA for Division I, II and III women's heavyweight collegiate crews. It was first held in 1997. In 2002, the NCAA added championships for Division II and Division III. All races are 2,000 meters long...

, in which women currently compete in a Varsity 8, a Second Varsity 8, and a Varsity Four.

Water Polo

USA Water Polo

Year and Champion	Year and Champion	Year and Champion
1984 UC Davis	1990 UC San Diego	1996 UCLA
1985 Stanford	1991 UC San Diego	1997 UCLA
1986 UC San Diego	1992 UC San Diego	1998 UCLA
1987 UC Santa Barbara	1993 UC Davis	1999 USC
1988 UC Davis	1994 UC San Diego	2000 UCLA
1989 UC Santa Barbara	1995 Slippery Rock Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania is a public, master's-level university that offers some doctoral programs in cooperation with Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Both institutions are members of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education... (PA)	2000 UCLA

NCAA from 2001
NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship
The NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship has existed since the 2001 season. Three conferences have teams competing in women's water polo, the Collegiate Water Polo Association, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference...