1955 NCAA swimming and diving championships
Host city	Oxford, Ohio
Date(s)	March 1955
Venue(s)	Billings Natatorium Miami University
Teams	23
Events	14
← 1954 1956 →

The 1955 NCAA swimming and diving championships were contested in March 1955 at Billings Natatorium at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio at the 19th 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. ^[1]

Ohio State retained the national title, the Buckeyes' ninth, after finishing thirty-nine points ahead of Michigan and Yale in the team standings.

Program

• The 100 yard butterfly was dropped from the program, although it would be re-added two years later in 1957.
• The 200 yard breaststroke was added to the program. This would be the first appearance of a breaststroke event at the NCAA championships.

Team standings

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

Rank	Team	Points
	Ohio State (DC)	90
	Michigan	51
	Yale
4	NC State	20
5	North Carolina	17
6	Harvard	15
7	Iowa	14
	Oklahoma
9	Iowa State	13
10	Stanford	11
11	Indiana	9
12	Dartmouth	8
13	Cortland State	5
	Purdue
	Springfield
16	Georgia	4
17	Denver	3
18	Army	2
	Cornell
	La Salle
	USC
22	Ohio	1
	Wisconsin

Individual events

Swimming

Event	Champion	Team	Time
50 yard freestyle	Kerry Donovan	Yale	22.8
100 yard freestyle	Rex Aubrey	Yale	50.7
220 yard freestyle	Jack Wardrop (DC)	Michigan	2:04.2
440 yard freestyle	Ford Konno (DC)	Ohio State	4:31.1
1,500 meter freestyle	Ford Konno (DC)	Ohio State	18:16.1
100 yard backstroke	Yoshi Oyakawa (DC)	Ohio State	58.0
200 yard backstroke	Yoshi Oyakawa (DC)	Ohio State	2:07.7
200 yard breaststroke	Bob Mattson	NC State	2:26.0
200 yard butterfly	Phillip Drake	North Carolina	2:13.7
150 yard individual medley	Albert Wiggins	Ohio State	1:26.5
400 yard freestyle relay	Rex Aubrey Hendrik Gideonse Daniel Cornwell Malcolm Aldrich	Yale	3:24.9
300 yard medley relay	Yoshi Oyakawa Albert Wiggins Ed Kawachika	Ohio State (DC)	2:42.2

Diving

See also

• List of college swimming and diving teams

References