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1954 NCAA Golf Championship
The 1954 NCAA Golf Championship was the 16th annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf in the United States. The tournament was held at the Braeburn Country Club in Houston, Texas, co-hosted by the University of Houston and Rice University. SMU won the team title, the Mustangs' NCAA team national title. Individual results Individual champion * Hillman Robbins, Memphis State Tournament medalist * Don Albert, Purdue Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ... (136) Team results *Note: Top 10 only *DC = Defending champions References NCAA Men's Golf Championship Golf in Texas NCAA Golf Championship NCAA Golf Championship NCAA Golf Championship {{US-golf-tournament-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston, Texas
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Comprising a land area of , Houston is the ninth-most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties). It is the largest city in the United States by total area whose government is not consolidated with a county, parish, or borough. Though primarily in Harris County, small portions of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purdue Boilermakers Men's Golf
The Purdue Boilermakers men's golf team represents the Purdue University in the sport of golf. The Boilermakers compete in Division I (NCAA), Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Big Ten Conference. They are currently led by head coach Rob Bradley. The Purdue Boilermakers men's golf program has won 12 Big Ten Conference championships and one NCAA national team championship in 1961. The first year of golf at Purdue was in 1921. Championships *NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, NCAA National Champions: 1961 NCAA Golf Championship, 1961 *Big Ten Team Championships: 1950, 1953, 1954–55 Purdue Boilermakers men's golf team, 1955, 1955–56 Purdue Boilermakers men's golf team, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1981 *NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, NCAA Championship (Individual): 1950 - Fred Wampler (golfer), Fred Wampler *NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, NCAA Championship (Individual): 1955 - Joe Campbell (gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In American Sports
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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