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.
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
Yale (H) 39 Michigan 38 Navy 24 Ohio State (DC) Columbia 22 Army 14 Williams 7 Brown 6 Rochester Cornell 5 Bowdoin 4 Penn State Princeton Minnesota 3 RPI 2
Individual events Swimming 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 ChurchCharles FriesWilliam KogenGurdon Pulford Michigan (DC) 3:35.0 300-yard medley relay Robert CowellJack ManherzHarlie Mize Navy 3:01.1
Diving 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
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