Tournament information | |
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Sport | College skiing |
Location | Franconia Notch and Lyme, New Hampshire |
Dates | March 5–7, 1964 |
Administrator | NCAA |
Host(s) | Dartmouth |
Venue(s) | Cannon Mountain (alpine) Dartmouth Skiway (nordic) |
Teams | 10 |
Number of events | 4 events (7 titles) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Denver (8th title) |
1st runners-up | Dartmouth |
2nd runners-up | Wyoming |
The 1964 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Cannon Mountain Ski Area in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire at the eleventh annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States. [1]
Denver, coached by Willy Schaeffler, captured their eighth, and fourth consecutive, national championship, edging out host Dartmouth in the team standings. [2] [3]
This year's championships were held in New Hampshire, with the alpine events at Cannon Mountain, near Franconia Notch, and the nordic events at Dartmouth Skiway, near Lyme. [4] [5]
The eleventh edition, these were the second NCAA championships in New Hampshire (1958 at Dartmouth Skiway) and the fourth in the East; the other two (1955, 1961) were in Vermont.
Originally scheduled for March 5–7 at Dartmouth Skiway, rain forced a move of the alpine events to nearby Vermont at Mount Ascutney, [4] and again to Cannon Mountain; the nordic events were held at Dartmouth on Friday. [5] The downhill was replaced with a giant slalom on Saturday morning, followed by a slalom in the afternoon, both won by John Clough of Middlebury. [2]
Rank | Team | Points |
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Denver | 370.2 | |
Dartmouth | 368.8 | |
Wyoming | 359.7 | |
4 | Western State | 355.0 |
5 | Middlebury | 354.3 |
6 | Washington | 333.8 |
7 | Williams | 322.1 |
8 | Vermont | 308.9 |
9 | Harvard | 298.5 |
10 | Notre Dame | 221.7 |
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
Event | Champion | ||
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Skier | Team | Time/Score | |
Alpine | John Clough | Middlebury | 2:49.4 |
Cross Country | Eddie Demers (2) | Western State | 56:30 |
Giant slalom ^ | John Clough | Middlebury | 1:31.3 |
Jumping | Frithjof Prydz Erik Jansen | Utah Denver | 214.5 |
Nordic | Erik Jansen | Denver | 7:16.3 |
Skimeister | Jennings Cress | Western State | 336.0 |
Slalom | John Clough | Middlebury | 1:24.5 |
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