1940 NCAA Track and Field Championships


The 1940 NCAA Track and Field Championships was the 19th NCAA track and field championship. The event was held at the University of Minnesota's Memorial Stadium in June 1940. The University of Southern California won its sixth consecutive team title.
The meet took place during a two-day downpour that flooded the stadium and forced the field events to be moved indoors at the Minnesota field house.

Team Result

Track events

100-yard dash

  1. Barney Ewell, Penn State - 9.6 seconds
  2. Clyde Jeffrey, Stanford
  3. Bill Brown, LSU
  4. Harold Stickel, Pitt
  5. Leo Tarrant, Alabama State

    120-yard high hurdles

  6. Ed Dugger, Tufts - 13.9 seconds
  7. Fred Wolcott, Rice
  8. Boyce Gatewood, Texas
  9. Frank Fuller, Virginia
  10. Jim McGoldrick, Washington

    220-yard dash

  11. Barney Ewell, Penn State - 21.1 seconds
  12. Billy Brown, LSU
  13. Mickey Anderson, USC
  14. Leo Tarrant, Alabama State
  15. George Koettel, Oklahoma

    220-yard low hurdles

  16. Fred Wolcott, Rice - 23.1 seconds
  17. Ed Dugger, Tufts
  18. Boyce Gatewood, Texas
  19. Jim Buck, Oregon
  20. Harold Stickel, Pitt

    440-yard dash

  21. Lee Orr, Washington State - 47.3 seconds
  22. Gene Littler, Nebraska
  23. Howard Upton, USC
  24. Warren Breidenbach, Michigan
  25. Fred Alliniece, Prairie View Texas State

    880-yard run

  26. Campbell Kane, Indiana - 1:51.5
  27. Ed Burrowes, Princeton
  28. Paul Moore, Stanford
  29. James Kehoe, Maryland
  30. Denzil Wiedil, California

    One-mile run

  31. John Munski, Missouri
  32. Leslie MacMitchell, NYU
  33. Lou Zamperini, USC
  34. Mason Chronister, Maryland
  35. Max Lenover, Loyola of Chicago

    Two-mile run

  36. Roy Fehr, Michigan State - 9 minutes, 18.9 seconds
  37. Dixon Garner, Washington State
  38. Ralph Scwarzkopf, Michigan
  39. Tom Quinn, Michigan Normal
  40. Ray Harris, Kansas

    Field events

Long jump

1. Jackie Robinson, UCLA - 24 feet, 10¼ inches
2. Billy Brown, LSU
3. Welles Hodgson, Minnesota
4. Pat Turner, UCLA
5. William Lacefield, UCLA

High jump

1. Don Canham, Michigan - 6 feet, 6⅜ inches
1. John Wilson, USC - 6 feet, 6⅜ inches
3. Alfred Flechner, Idaho
4. Don Boydston, Oklahoma A&M
4. Joshua Williamson, Xavier of New Orleans
4. Russell Wulff, Stanford

Pole vault

1. Kenny Dills, USC - 13 feet, 10 inches
2. Quinn Smith, California
3. George Hoffman, Fresno State
4. Ralph Ross, Army
5. William Williams, Wisconsin

Discus throw

1. Archie Harris, Indiana - 162 feet, 4½ inches
2. Jack Hughes, Texas - 161 feet, 6 inches
3. Al Blozis, Georgetown - 161 feet, 5 inches
4. A. Cornet, Stanford
5. Edsel Wibbels, Nebraska

Javelin

1. Martin Biles, California - 204 feet, 10 inches
2. Herbert Grote, Nebraska
3. Boyd Brown, Oregon
4. Nick Vukmanic, Penn State
5. Clarence Gehrke, Utah

Shot put

1. Al Blozis, Georgetown - 56 feet, 1/2 inch
2. Stan Anderson, Stanford
3. Herb Michael, California
4. Don McNeil, USC
5. John Mazyk, Pitt