The 1940 NCAA Track and Field Championships was the 19th NCAA track and field championship. The event was held at the

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's Memorial Stadium in June 1940. The

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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

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, Penn State - 9.6 seconds
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, Stanford
# Bill Brown, LSU
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, Pitt
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, Alabama State

120-yard high hurdles

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, Tufts - 13.9 seconds (NCAA record, tied American record)
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, Rice
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, Texas
# Frank Fuller, Virginia
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, Washington

220-yard dash

, Penn State - 21.1 seconds (American record)
# Billy Brown, LSU
# Mickey Anderson, USC
# Leo Tarrant, Alabama State
# George Koettel, Oklahoma

220-yard low hurdles

# Fred Wolcott, Rice - 23.1 seconds
# Ed Dugger, Tufts
# Boyce Gatewood, Texas
# Jim Buck, Oregon
# Harold Stickel, Pitt

440-yard dash

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, Washington State - 47.3 seconds
# Gene Littler, Nebraska
# Howard Upton, USC
#

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, Michigan
# Fred Alliniece, Prairie View Texas State

880-yard run

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, Indiana - 1:51.5
# Ed Burrowes, Princeton
# Paul Moore, Stanford
# James Kehoe, Maryland
# Denzil Wiedil, California

One-mile run

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, Missouri
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, NYU
# Lou Zamperini, USC
# Mason Chronister, Maryland
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, Loyola of Chicago

Two-mile run

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, Michigan State - 9 minutes, 18.9 seconds
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, Washington State
# Ralph Scwarzkopf, Michigan
# Tom Quinn, Michigan Normal
# Ray Harris, Kansas

Field events

Long jump

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, UCLA - 24 feet, 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, inches
1. John Wilson, USC - 6 feet, inches
3. Alfred Flechner, Idaho
4.

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, Oklahoma A&M
4. Joshua Williamson, Xavier of New Orleans
4. Russell Wulff, Stanford

Pole vault

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, 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, inches
2. Jack Hughes, Texas - 161 feet, 6 inches
3.

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, Georgetown - 161 feet, 5 inches
4. A. Cornet, Stanford
5. Edsel Wibbels, Nebraska

Javelin

1. Martin Biles, California - 204 feet, 10 inches
2.

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, Nebraska
3.

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, Oregon
4.

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, Penn State
5. Clarence Gehrke, Utah

Shot put

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

References

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