1947 NCAA baseball season

1947 NCAA baseball season
Tournament
Duration	June 20–28, 1947
College World Series
Champions	California
Runners-up	Yale
Seasons
← 1946	1948 →

The 1947 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1947. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1947 NCAA Baseball Tournament and 1947 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the first time in 1947, consisted of the two remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and was held in Kalamazoo, Michigan at Hyames Field as a best of three series. California claimed the championship two games to none over Yale.^[1]

Realignment

The Southern Conference began sponsoring baseball in 1947, with 16 teams.

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1947 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. Conference champions had to be chosen, unless all conference champions declined the bid.^[1]

Conference	Regular Season Winner	Conference Tournament	Tournament Winner
Big Nine	Illinois	No Conference Tournament
Big Six	Oklahoma	No Conference Tournament
CIBA	California/Southern California	No Conference Tournament
EIBL	Yale	No Conference Tournament
Metropolitan New York Conference	NYU	No Conference Tournament
Mid-American Conference	Ohio	No Conference Tournament
Missouri Valley Conference	Oklahoma A&M	1947 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament	Oklahoma A&M
Pacific Coast Conference North	Washington State	No Conference Tournament
Southeastern Conference	Alabama	No Conference Tournament
Southern Conference	Clemson	No Conference Tournament
Southwest Conference	Texas	No Conference Tournament

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1947 Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League baseball standings
	Conf						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
Yale †^y	9	–	3	–	0	.750	19	–	10	–	1	.650
Columbia	7	–	5	–	0	.583	8	–	7	–	1	.531
Harvard	7	–	5	–	0	.583	12	–	13	–	0	.480
Princeton	7	–	5	–	0	.583	10	–	12	–	0	.455
Penn	6	–	6	–	0	.500	12	–	9	–	0	.571
Dartmouth	3	–	9	–	0	.250	5	–	16	–	0	.238
Cornell	3	–	9	–	0	.250	8	–	17	–	0	.320

† – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1947^[2]^[3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

1947 Pacific Coast Conference baseball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
North
Washington State †	11	–	5	.688	23	–	11	.676
Oregon	9	–	7	.563	19	–	7	.731
Washington	9	–	7	.563	9	–	7	.563
Oregon State	6	–	10	.375	14	–	11	.560
Idaho	5	–	11	.313		–		–
California Intercollegiate Baseball Association
California †^y	11	–	4	.733	31	–	10	.756
Southern California	11	–	4	.733	16	–	6	.727
Stanford	7	–	8	.467	19	–	11	.633
UCLA	7	–	8	.467	29	–	15	.659
St. Mary's	5	–	10	.333		–		–
Santa Clara	4	–	11	.267	10	–	15	.400

† – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1947^[4]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

NCAA Tournament

Main article: 1947 NCAA Baseball Tournament

The 1947 season marked the first NCAA Baseball Tournament, which consisted of eight teams divided into two brackets by region. The Eastern Playoff was held in New Haven, Connecticut while the Western Playoff was held in Denver, Colorado. The winner of each single elimination bracket advanced to the inaugural College World Series in Kalamazoo, MI, where California defeated Yale in a best of three series.

College World Series Finals

	California	17	8	–
	Yale	4	7	–

Award winners

All-America team

Main article: 1947 College Baseball All-America Team

References

1 2 W.C. Madden & Patrick J. Stewart (2004). The College World Series:A Baseball History, 1947-2003. McFarland & Co. pp. 5–11. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
↑ 2013–2014 Ivy League Baseball Records Book (PDF). Ivy League. p. 2. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
↑ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1947". boydsworld.com. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
↑ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1947". boydsworld.com. Retrieved March 13, 2013.

NCAA college baseball seasons

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