List of college athletics championship game outcomes

• 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.^[3] William McKinley attended the opening game.^[4] It was organized by the Columbian National Inter-Collegiate Baseball Association, notably by its secretary, Amos Alonzo Stagg, then the new head football coach at the University of Chicago.^[5]

NCAA from 1947.

• 1904 Hiram College won the 1904 Olympic Games collegiate championship tournament, def. Wheaton College, 25–20, and Latter-Day Saints University (later, Brigham Young University), 25–18.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}
• 1908 Chicago def. Pennsylvania, 2 games to 0 (21–18, 16–15)^[12][13]
• Amateur Athletic Union annual United States championship – College teams were runners-up in 1915, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1932, and 1934. Four college teams won the championship (final game results):^[14]

• 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)^[15]
• 1922 Wabash College (Indiana) won the first national intercollegiate championship tournament, which was held in Indianapolis.^{[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]} Five 1922 conference champions and a runner-up^[24] from these conferences participated: Pacific Coast Conference, Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Western Pennsylvania League, Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association and Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Western Conference and Eastern Intercollegiate League declined invitations to participate.^[25]
• 1930 Pittsburgh def. Montana State 37–36 in contest billed as a "championship game" according to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.^[26]
• 1938 Temple def. Colorado, 60–36 in first National Invitation Tournament^[27]

NCAA from 1939.

• 1939–1950 NIT winners:^{[28][29][30][31][32][33]}

• 1954 Holy Cross claims a national championship for its 1954 NIT victory.^[34]
• 1943–1945 Red Cross War Benefit Games:^[35][36]

• 1943 Wyoming, winner of NCAA tournament, def. NIT champion, St. John's, 52-47 (OT)
• 1944 Utah, winner of NCAA tournament, def. NIT champion, St. John's, 43-36
• 1945 Oklahoma A&M, winner of NCAA tournament, def. NIT champion, DePaul, 52–44

• 1924 Penn State def. Navy, 18–16^[37][38]
• 1925 Navy def. Penn State, 23–11^[39]
• 1926 Navy def. Penn State, 15–13^[40][41]
• 1927 Penn State def. Navy, 22–21^[42]
• 1928 Navy def. Penn State, 19–18^[40][43]
• 1929 Penn State def. Navy, 23–13^[44]
• 1930 Penn State def. Western Maryland, 19–14^[45][46]
• 1931 Navy def. Western Maryland, 20–16^[47]

NCAA from 1932–1960.^[48]

Inter-Collegiate Cross Country Association (1899–1907)
Inter-Collegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (1908–37)^[49][50][51]

NCAA from 1938.

Intercollegiate Fencing Association (1894–1943)

Team Foils

Three-Weapon Championship

† 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.^[55]

NCAA 1941–42 and from 1947.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has never conducted a national championship event at the highest level of college football, currently its Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Neither has the NCAA ever officially endorsed an FBS national champion. Since 1978, it has held a championship playoff at the next lower level of college play. Prior to 1978, no divisions separated teams, and champions were independently designated by "selectors," composed of individuals and third-party organizations using experts, polls, and mathematical methods.^[95] These efforts have continued and thrived for the higher FBS level. From the beginning, the selectors' choices have frequently been at odds with each other.^[96] The NCAA has documented both contemporaneous and retroactive choices of several major national selectors in its official NCAA Football Records Book.^[95] These selections are often claimed as championships by individual schools.

1897–1938

See Pre-NCAA college golf champions

NCAA from 1939.

• 1899 No team title. Yale gymnasts won 4 out of 6 individual events, shared a tie for victory in one event and also won the individual all-around. 19 schools participated.^[97]
• 1900 Columbia def. 2nd place Yale, 26 – 17^[98]
• 1901 Yale def. 2nd place Columbia, 20 – 14^[99]
• 1902 Yale def. 2nd-place Columbia, 16 – 15^[100]

In 1903, the Western Conference instituted an annual conference championship meet.^[101] Although early interest was expressed by the Intercollegiate Association in establishing a recognized national championship event with the Western Conference,^[102] 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^{[103][104][105]}
• 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.^[106]

"[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."^[107] (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.^[108] Navy was not a participant in the 1926, 1927 and 1928 meets.

• 1944 Penn State won the National AAU team title during a five-year hiatus in the NCAA championships for World War II.^[109]

NCAA from 1938.

• Amateur Athletic Union conducted annual National Ice Hockey Championships during 1931–1948, except during most of the World War II years.^[110] College teams won the championship on at least two occasions:

• 1940 Minnesota^[111] def. Amesbury, 9–4, and Brock-Hall, 9–1^[112][113]
• 1942 Boston College^[114] def. High Standard H.C., 3–2, Massena H.C., 9–8, and defending champion St. Nicholas H.C., 6–4^[115]

NCAA from 1948.

• 1881 Harvard def. Princeton, 3–0

The first intercollegiate lacrosse tournament was held in 1881 with Harvard beating Princeton in the championship game. New York University and Columbia University also participated. From 1882 through 1970 (excepting 1932–1935), the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association and the collegiate lacrosse associations from which it evolved chose annual champions based on season records. These associations were the ILA (1882–1905), IULL (1899–1905), USILL (1906–1925) and USILA (1926–1970).^[116][117] In 1912 and 1921, the USILL conducted championship games between the winners of its Northern and Southern Divisions. Efforts to conduct such games in other years during its existence were unsuccessful.^[116]

• 1912 Harvard def. Swarthmore, 7–3
• 1921 Lehigh def. Syracuse, 3–1

NCAA from 1971.

National Rifle Association

1924–79^[118]

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.

NCAA from 1980.

* The Intercollegiate Rifle Team Trophy was presented to the NRA by the Sons of the American Revolution in 1928, when it was first awarded for annual rifle competition.^[118]

† NRA document^[118] states that there was no competition in 1946.

1909–22

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

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.

1905 – ?

Matches were initially held at Sea Girt, New Jersey; after several years Camp Perry, Ohio, became the perennial venue.

(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^[160]), which was not open to all students.)

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, cross-country skiing, and ski jumping, as well as speed skating, figure skating, 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.^[174][175] 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.^[176][177] 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.^[178] 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.^[179] In 1948 and 1949, Aspen, rather than Sun Valley, hosted the national "four-way" intercollegiate ski championships.^{[180][181][182][183]}

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.^[184] This event served to influence the NCAA to add skiing as a sponsored sport, with the first NCAA title event occurring in 1954.^[185]

The Intercollegiate Ski Union (ISU), a conference of schools primarily in the Northeast, also conducted annual championship events for its members.^[186] However, its geographic reach was more limited than the other competitions described.

Lake Placid, New York

† 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^[176][177]
• 1938–39 no apparent team title (individual only)^{[174][175][223][224][225][226]}
• 1939–40 Washington^{[226][227][228]}
• 1940–41 Washington^{[229][230][231][232][233][234]}
• 1941–42 Washington^[232][235]
• 1942–46 not held^[178]
• 1946–47 Utah^{[178][236][237][238]}
• 1947–48 Middlebury^{[186][239][240][241][242]}

Aspen, Colorado

• 1947–48 Western State (CO) §^{[179][182][243][244]}
• 1948–49 Middlebury^{[180][181][245]}
• 1949–50 Denver^{[243][246][247]}

Post-Season National Championship

• 1950 Dartmouth (venue: Arapahoe Basin, Colorado)^[184][185]
• 1951 Denver (venue: Mt. Hood, Oregon)^{[248][249][250]}
• 1952 Denver (venue: Snow Basin, Utah)^[251]
• 1953 Washington State (venue: Snow Basin, Utah)^[252][253]

NCAA from 1954.

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

The Soccer Bowl^[254] (played in 1950–52) attempted to settle the national championship on the field for the 1949, 1950 and 1951 seasons. The Soccer Bowl championship games were played in January, 1950; December, 1950; and February, 1952, respectively.

• 1949 Penn State tied San Francisco, 2–2 (co-champs)
• 1950 Penn State def. Purdue, 3–1
• 1951 Temple def. San Francisco, 2–0

NCAA from 1959.

1883–1945^[255]

See Collegiate individual tennis champions

NCAA from 1946.

Intercollegiate Tennis Association (1973– )

Amateur Athletic Union (1918)

Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (1923–64)^[256]

NCAA from 1965.

Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (1876–1920)^{[50][260][261]}

* University of Chicago won the 1904 Olympic Games collegiate championship meet, defeating Princeton, Illinois, Michigan State and Colgate.^[262]

† A contemporary source^[263] 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.

Until 1969, men's trampoline was one of the events that comprised the NCAA gymnastics championships. The NCAA continued to bestow a national title in trampoline for two years.^{[264][265][266]} For several years, there was an annual membership vote on whether to remove it as an NCAA competition, resulting in removal by 1971.

• 1969 Michigan
• 1970 Michigan

Discontinued after 1970.

United States Volleyball Association (1949–69)^[267]

NCAA from 1970.

Molten Division III Men's Invitational Volleyball Championship Tournament (1997–2011)

This was a championship solely for NCAA Division III schools. It was discontinued after its 2011 edition when the NCAA announced it would organize an official Division III championship starting in 2012.

NCAA from 2012.

• 1913 Princeton 3, Illinois 1^[268]

NCAA from 1969.

• 1921 Penn State def. Indiana, 32–14, and Iowa Agricultural College, 28–18, in post-season dual meets among conference champions.^{[37][269][270][271]}

NCAA from 1928.

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

See DGWS/AIAW Basketball Champions (1969–82)

NCAA from 1982.

The Amateur Athletic Union (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:^[272]

• 1932–33 (2) Oklahoma Presbyterian College^[64]
• 1934–36 (3) Tulsa Business College^[66][67][68]
• 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)

United States Bowling Congress (formerly American Bowling Congress and Women's Intercollegiate Bowling Congress)^[273]

The NCAA from 2004 has sponsored a women's team championship, apart from the USBC national championships. There were 80 schools in all divisions participating in NCAA bowling as of April, 2018.

Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (1929–63)

National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (1964–79)^[274]

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

AIAW 1980–82 (3 years). NCAA 1982–89 (8 years). NCAA (Coed) from 1990.

American Women's College Hockey Alliance

NCAA from 2001.

National Rifle Association

NCAA (Coed) from 1980.

Pre-NCAA Coed Rifle: see above

The National Women's Rowing Association (NWRA) sponsored an annual open eights national championship from 1971 to 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.^[280] 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, 2nd overall^[281] (first place – Vesper Boat Club)
• 1972 Washington, 4th overall (first place – College Boat Club)
• 1973 Radcliffe College (NWRA open champion)
• 1974 Radcliffe College (first place – Vesper Boat Club)
• 1975 Wisconsin (NWRA open champion)^[282]
• 1976 Wisconsin (first place – College Boat Club)
• 1977 Wisconsin (first place – Vesper Boat Club)
• 1978 Wisconsin (first place – Burnaby Boat Club)
• 1979 Yale (first place – Burnaby Boat Club)^[283]

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

* simultaneous AIAW championship, the only one conducted

Followed by NCAA from 1997, in which women currently compete in a Varsity 8, a Second Varsity 8, and a Varsity Four.

American Volleyball Coaches Association, Collegiate Nationals

NCAA from 2016.

Intercollegiate Tennis Association

Women's National Collegiate and Scholastic Track Association

Telegraphic meets conducted during specified dates each May

Amateur Athletic Union

The AAU conducted senior women's national track and field championships for all athletes, both indoors and outdoors, beginning in the 1920s. Two college teams won numerous championships in each sport against other clubs from throughout the country.

Tuskegee Institute won the AAU national title 14 times in 1937–1942 and 1944–1951. Tennessee State won national outdoors 13 times in 1955–1960, 1962, 1963, 1965–1967, 1969 and 1978.^[286]

Amateur Athletic Union

Tuskegee Institute won the AAU national indoor championships four times in 1941, 1945, 1946 and 1948. Tennessee State won the national title 14 times in 1956–1960, 1962, 1965–1969 and 1978–1980.^[286]

USA Water Polo^[287]

NCAA from 2001.