1961 NCAA swimming and diving championships

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1961 NCAA swimming and diving championships

Host city	Seattle, Washington
Date(s)	March 1961
Venue(s)	Pavilion Pool University of Washington
Teams	27
Events	16
← 1960 1962 →

The 1961 NCAA swimming and diving championships were contested at the 25th annual championship swim meet sanctioned and hosted by the NCAA to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving among its Division I member programs in the United States, culminating the 1960–61 NCAA swimming and diving season.

These championships were hosted by the University of Washington at the Pavilion Pool in Seattle, Washington during March 1961.

Michigan finished twenty-three points ahead of defending champions USC in the team championship standings, the Wolverines' tenth national title and fourth in five seasons.^[1]

Team standings

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

Rank	Team	Points
Rank	Team	Points
	Michigan	85
	USC (DC)	62
	Ohio State	59
4	Harvard	26
5	Michigan State	24
6	Yale	20
7	Minnesota	18
8	Oklahoma	13.5
9	Cincinnati	12
10	Princeton	10.5
11	Florida State	9
12	Iowa	8
13	Denver	7
13	North Central (IL)	7
15	Texas	5
16	Southern Illinois	4
17	Miami (OH)	3.5
17	Navy	3.5
19	Bowling Green State	3
	SMU
	Wisconsin
22	Ohio	2
	Purdue
	Stanford
	Washington (H)
26	Illinois	1
26	Washington State	1

Individual events

Swimming

Event	Champion	Team	Time
50 yard freestyle	Frank Legacki	Michigan	21.4
100 yard freestyle	Steven Jackman	Minnesota	48.5
220 yard freestyle	Murray Rose	USC	2:00.6
440 yard freestyle	Murray Rose	USC	4:17.9
1,500 meter freestyle	Murray Rose	USC	17:21.8
100 yard backstroke	Charles Bittick (DC)	USC	53.9
200 yard backstroke	Charles Bittick (DC)	USC	1:57.1
100 yard breaststroke	Richard Nelson	Michigan	1:02.1
200 yard breaststroke	Ron Clark (DC)	Michigan	2:13.4
100 yard butterfly	Dave Gillanders	Michigan	52.9
200 yard butterfly	Dave Gillanders	Michigan	1:58.6
200 yard individual medley	John Kelso	Denver	2:02.9
400 yard freestyle relay	Robert Kaufmann Alan Engelberg William Zantgraf Bruce Hunter	Harvard	3:18.3
400 yard medley relay	L.B. Schaefer Tom Kovacs Artie Wolfe John Plain	Ohio State	3:40.3

Diving

Event	Champion	Team	Score
1 meter diving	Curt Genders	Florida State	459.40
3 meter diving	Lou Vitucci	Ohio State	491.65

References

^ "DIVISION I MEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK" (PDF). ncaa.org. NCAA. Retrieved August 19, 2024.

v t e NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
Pre-Team Championship	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936
Team Championship	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
Records	All-time individual records All-time team records Appearances

v t e 1960–61 NCAA University Division championships
University Division only	Basketball Cross country
Single Championship	Baseball Fencing Football Golf Gymnastics Ice hockey Skiing Soccer Swimming and diving Tennis Track and field Wrestling

Categories:

Hidden categories:

Team standings

Individual events

Swimming

Diving

See also

References