1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, Express passenger locomotives
Official test runs on the GWR Main Line were held on the following dates, using the GWR Dynamometer Car:


1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, Mixed Traffic locomotives
The four routes used were: Midland Main Line St. Pancras to Manchester, Great Central Main Line Marylebone to Manchester, Highland Main Line Perth to Inverness, and South Devon Main Line Bristol to Plymouth.


1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, Mixed Traffic locomotives
Official test runs on the South Devon Main Line were held on the following dates, using the GWR Dynamometer Car:


1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, Mixed Traffic locomotives
Official test runs on the Midland Main Line were held on the following dates, using the L&YR Dynamometer Car:


1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, Mixed Traffic locomotives
Official test runs on the Great Central Main Line were held on the following dates, using the NER Dynamometer Car:


1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, Mixed Traffic locomotives
Official test runs on the Highland Main Line were held on the following dates, using the NER Dynamometer Car:


1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, Freight locomotives
The four routes used were: London Midland Region Brent to Toton, Eastern Region Ferme Park (London) to New England (Peterborough), Western Region Acton (London) to Severn Tunnel Junction (South Wales), and Southern Region Bristol to Eastleigh. Due to the tests being held on non-public services, details are only available from the Official Report.


1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, Freight locomotives
Eastern Region tests were carried out using the L&YR Dynamometer Car by:


1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, Freight locomotives
Western Region tests were carried out using the NER Dynamometer Car by:


1948 Los Angeles Dons season
The 1948 Los Angeles Dons season was their third in the All-America Football Conference. The team matched their previous output of 7-7, but failed to qualify for the playoffs for the third consecutive season.


1948 Los Angeles Dons season
The team's statistical leaders included Glenn Dobbs with 2,403 passing yards and 539 rushing yards and Joe Aguirre with 599 receiving yards and 56 points scored.


1948 Los Angeles Rams season
The 1948 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 11th year with the National Football League and the third season in Los Angeles. The Rams debuted the first helmet logo in league history in 1948, an idea that was conceived by running back Fred Gehrke. The season opener against the Lions was the final Wednesday night game in the NFL. In his first NFL game, future Pro Football Hall of Famer Tom Fears scored twice in the fourth quarter, and had his only pick-six of his career in a 44–7 victory.


1948 Los Angeles Rams season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash
On January 28, 1948, a DC-3 plane carrying 32 persons, mostly Mexican farm laborers, including some from the bracero guest worker program, crashed in the Diablo Range, 20 miles west of Coalinga, California. The crash, which killed everyone aboard the plane, inspired the song "Deportee" by Woody Guthrie.


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash
Some of the passengers were being returned to Mexico at the termination of their bracero contracts, while others were illegal immigrants being deported. Initial news reports listed only the pilot, first officer, and stewardess, with the remainder listed only as "deportees." Only 12 of the victims were initially identified. The Mexican victims of the accident were placed in a mass grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fresno, California, with their grave marked only as "Mexican Nationals".


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash, Accident
The Douglas DC-3 aircraft, owned by Airline Transport Carriers of Burbank, California, was chartered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to fly twenty-eight Mexican citizens, who were being deported to the INS Deportation Center in El Centro, California.


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash, Accident
For reasons never explained, pilot Frank Atkinson and co-pilot Marion Ewing took a DC-3 that had seats for only twenty-six passengers (seven hours overdue for a routine and required safety inspection) for the flight, instead of an aircraft certified to carry thirty-two passengers. Arriving in Oakland, California, after a routine flight, the crew was joined by INS guard Frank Chaffin. The flight was to refuel at Burbank, California, before continuing to El Centro.


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash, Accident
At approximately 10:30am, workers at the Fresno County Industrial Road Camp, located 21 mi (34 km) northwest of Coalinga, California, noticed the DC-3 trailing white smoke from its port engine. The port wing suddenly ripped off, spilling nine passengers out of the gaping hole in the fuselage. The aircraft caught fire and spiralled to the ground near Los Gatos Creek, exploding in a ball of fire. The investigation by the Civil Aeronautics Authority discovered that a fuel leak in the port engine's fuel pump had ignited and the slipstream fanned the flames to a white hot intensity. The ensuing fire, acting like an oxy-acetylene torch, burned through the wingspar and caused the crash.


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash, Accident
Initial news reports listed only the pilot, first officer, stewardess, and the immigration guard, with the remainder listed only as "deportees". Only 12 of the victims were initially identified. The Hispanic victims of the accident were placed in a mass grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fresno, California, with their grave marked only as "Mexican Nationals". The grave is 84 by 7 ft (25.6 by 2.1 m) with two rows of caskets and not all of the bodies were buried the first day, but the caskets at the site did have an overnight guard.


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash, Woody Guthrie song, "Deportee"
Singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie wrote a poem in 1948 lamenting the anonymity of the workers killed in the crash, identified only as "deportees" in media reports. When Guthrie's poem was set to music a decade later by college student Martin Hoffman, it became the folk song "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)".


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash, Woody Guthrie song, "Deportee"
The song was popularized by Pete Seeger, and was subsequently performed by Arlo Guthrie Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Julie Felix, Cisco Houston, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Kelly, Martyn Joseph, The Byrds, Richard Shindell and Ani DiFranco among others.


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash, Aftermath
Cesar Chavez, later to become founder of the United Farm Workers union, learned of the tragic crash while serving in the US Navy, helping convince him that farm workers should be treated "as important human beings and not as agricultural implements".


1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash, Aftermath
The names of all the victims were published in local papers in 1948. In 2009, writer Tim Z. Hernandez began to seek out the gravesite and those names. With the help of others, by July 2013 all had been identified (some of the names were misspelled in the records), and the money raised for a more fitting memorial. On September 2, 2013 (Labor Day), a Deportee Memorial Headstone was unveiled at a mass in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Fresno attended by more than 600. The memorial includes all twenty-eight names of the migrant workers, which included three women, and one man born in Spain, not Mexico as widely reported.


1948 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team
The 1948 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (now known as Louisiana Tech University) as a member of the Gulf States Conference during the 1948 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach Joe Aillet, the team compiled a 7–2–1 record.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election
The 1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election was decided by a Democratic primary held in two rounds on January 20 and February 24, 1948, which was tantamount to election. The 1948 election saw the defeat of Louisiana's reformer "anti-Long" faction and the election of Earl Kemp Long to his first full term as governor.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Background
Like most Southern states between the Reconstruction Era and the Civil Rights Movement, Louisiana's Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in terms of electoral support. This meant that the two Democratic Party primaries held on these dates were the real contest over who would be governor.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Background
Under Louisiana's constitution, incumbent governor Jimmie Davis could not succeed himself in a consecutive term.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign
Louisiana's reformist anti-Long faction supported Sam H. Jones, who had been governor from 1940 to 1944. Jones was endorsed by outgoing Governor Davis and high-profile Louisiana politicians, such as Senator John H. Overton and Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison, Sr., of New Orleans, who controlled the city's powerful Crescent City Democratic Association. Jones's reform campaign was weakened by reminders of unethical deals and heavy-handed political tactics in his previous term and by the electorate's lack of enthusiasm for reform governors after eight years.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign
Sam Jones's main opponent was Long, who had been governor in 1939–40 and the inheritor of his brother Huey Long's Longite political faction. Funded by politicians, oil and gas money, and contributions from organized crime in the New Orleans area, Long ran a theatrical and entertaining campaign, making stump speeches that were a mix of political harangue and humorous anecdotes.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign
His platform called for the elimination of Jones's civil service, the doubling of state spending on programs like pensions, school lunches, charity hospitals and asylums, new trade schools, pay increases for teachers, an increased homestead tax exemption, and bonuses for veterans of World War II. Through payoffs and promises of support, Long managed to gain the backing of powerful former enemies, State Senator Dudley LeBlanc, former Governor Jimmie Noe, and U.S. Representative F. Edward Hebert.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign
Robert F. Kennon drew most of his support from North Louisiana and reformers disillusioned with Jones. Jimmy Morrison (no relation to Mayor Morrison) was supported by former New Orleans mayor Robert Maestri and his Old Regular political machine and finished in fourth place.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Results
Jimmy Morrison was able to carry East Baton Rouge and several parishes in vicinity of his home region. Kennon won Shreveport's Caddo Parish and attracted some support in the rest of northern Louisiana. Support from deLesseps Morrison's machine allowed Jones to win in New Orleans, and respectable support from sections of the rest of the state sent him into the runoff round with Long. But Long's victories in most parishes in both northern and southern parts of the state gave him a commanding lead going into the second round.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Runoff
In the runoff, the Old Regulars threw their support behind Long. With his longtime enemies were supporting Long, Mayor Morrison stepped up his campaigning for Jones and began a feud with Long that would last until Long's death in 1960.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Runoff
The runoff election saw Long elected to the governor's office with an overwhelming majority. Of Louisiana's 64 parishes, only East Baton Rouge  and West Feliciana went for Jones. Jones even lost his home base of Calcasieu Parish. He did not seek the governorship again.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Aftermath
Once in office, Earl Long moved to place President Harry S. Truman on the Louisiana ballot in 1948. The Democrats ran an elector slate in the state committed to then South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond. Had Long not intervened, Truman would not have been on the Louisiana ballot. Thurmond, as the official Democratic nominee, won Louisiana's ten electoral votes.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Sources
Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples. Earl K. Long:  The Saga of Uncle Earl and 	Louisiana Politics, 1990.


1948 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Sources
Louisiana Secretary of State. Compilation of Primary Election Results of the Democratic Party of the State of Louisiana, 1948.


1948 Louisville Cardinals football team
The 1948 Louisville Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented the University of Louisville as an independent during the 1948 college football season. In their third season under head coach Frank Camp, the Cardinals compiled a 5–5 record.


1948 Loyola Lions football team
The 1948 Loyola Lions football team was an American football team that represented Loyola University of Los Angeles (now known as Loyola Marymount University) as an independent during the 1948 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Bill Sargent, the Lions compiled a 3–5–1 record and were outscored, 199 to 151.


1948 Luxembourg general election
Partial general elections were held in Luxembourg on 6 June 1948, electing 26 of the 51 seats in the Chamber of Deputies in the centre and north of the country. The Christian Social People's Party won 9 of the 26 seats, reducing its total number of seats from 25 to 22.


1948 Maine Black Bears football team
The 1948 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1948 college football season. In its fourth and final season under head coach George E. Allen, the team compiled a 4–3 record (1–2 against conference opponents) and finished fifth in the conference. Alton Sproul Jr. was the team captain. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Orono, Maine.


1948 Maine gubernatorial election
The 1948 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 13, 1948. Incumbent Republican Governor Horace A. Hildreth, was term limited and seeking election to the United States Senate (eventually losing the Republican primary to Margaret Chase Smith), thus did not run. Republican mayor of Augusta Frederick G. Payne faced off against Democratic challenger Louis B. Lausier, defeating him in a landslide.


1948 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The 1948 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 15th playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 13, 1948, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri, the home of both the St. Louis Browns of the American League (who were the designated host team) and the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League. The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 5–2.


1948 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Browns in the game
The lone representative of the host team was Al Zarilla, a reserve outfielder for the AL, who entered the game playing right field in the top of the 5th inning, and was hitless in two at bats.


1948 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Starting lineups
Players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.


1948 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Starting lineups, Umpires
The umpires changed assignments in the middle of the fifth inning – Berry and Reardon swapped positions, also Stewart and Paparella swapped positions.


1948 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Synopsis
The NL scored two runs in the top of the 1st inning, on a leadoff single by Richie Ashburn, and later a two-run home run by Stan Musial with one out. It would be the only runs the NL would score. The AL got one run back in the bottom of the 2nd inning, on a home run by Hoot Evers. They later tied the score at 2–2 in the bottom of the 3rd, after two walks, a steal of third base by Mickey Vernon, and a sacrifice fly from Lou Boudreau.


1948 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Synopsis
In the bottom of the 4th, the AL pulled ahead with 3 runs; after loading the bases with two singles and a walk, Vic Raschi drove in two runs with a single, followed by one more run scoring on a lineout by Joe DiMaggio. With the AL up 5–2, there would be no more scoring, despite the NL loading the bases in the 6th inning.


1948 Major League Baseball season
The 1948 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 19 to October 11, 1948. The Boston Braves and Cleveland Indians were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Indians won the American League title via a tie-breaker game victory over the Boston Red Sox, after both teams finished their 154-game schedules with identical 96–58 records. The Indians then defeated the Braves in the World Series, four games to two.


1948 Marquette Hilltoppers football team
The 1948 Marquette Hilltoppers football team was an American football team that represented Marquette University as an independent during the 1949 college football season. In its 18th season under head coach Frank Murray, the team compiled a 2–8 record and was outscored by a total of 212 to 127. The team played its home games at Marquette Stadium in Milwaukee.


1948 Marshall Thundering Herd football team
The 1948 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall University in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 1948 college football season. In its 11th season under head coach Cam Henderson, the team compiled a 2–7–1 record and was outscored by a total of 243 to 71. Claude Miller and Chuck Fieldson were the team captains.


1948 Maryland State Raiders football team
The 1948 Maryland State Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Maryland State College (now known as University of Maryland Eastern Shore) during the 1948 college football season. In its first season under head coach Vernon McCain, the team compiled an 7–1 record. The team played three games against interracial teams, defeating teams from Albright, Glassboro State, and Bridgeport.


1948 Maryland State Raiders football team
Key players included freshman halfback Sylvester Polk. Polk scored five touchdowns on seven running attempts against Morris College and ranked among the nation's scoring leaders in 1947.


1948 Maryland State Raiders football team
The 1948 season was the school's first under the common name Maryland State College. It was officially known as the University of Maryland's College for Negroes at Princess Anne and had previously been known as Maryland's Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, though it had been commonly referred to as Princess Anne College. In 1948, the school's president, Dr. J. T. Williams, discarded the "Princess Anne College" name because "people thought it might be a girl's finishing school . . . it embarrassed the football team."


1948 Maryland Terrapins football team
The 1948 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in 1948 college football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). Jim Tatum served as the head coach for the second year of his nine-year tenure. The Terrapins compiled a 6–4 record, which proved to be the worst of Tatum's term at Maryland and the only one in which his team lost more than two games. Griffith Stadium was temporarily used as the home field, as an interim venue between the original Byrd Stadium and the much larger, newly constructed stadium of the same name.


1948 Massachusetts elections
The 1948 Massachusetts general election was held on November 2, 1948, throughout Massachusetts. Primary elections took place on September 14.


1948 Massachusetts elections
At the federal level, Republican Leverett Saltonstall was re-elected to the United States Senate, and Republicans won eight of fourteen seats in the United States House of Representatives.


1948 Massachusetts elections
In the race for Governor, Republican incumbent Robert F. Bradford lost re-election to former Attorney General Paul Dever. Democrats swept the six statewide offices, defeating incumbents in five races.


1948 Massachusetts elections, Governor
Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford was defeated by Democratic former Attorney General Paul Dever in a landslide.


1948 Massachusetts elections, Lieutenant Governor
In the race for lieutenant governor, Democratic Mayor of Worcester defeated incumbent Republican Arthur W. Coolidge.


1948 Massachusetts elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth
Incumbent Republican Secretary of the Commonwealth Frederic W. Cook ran for re-election to a record fifteenth two-year term in office, but was narrowly defeated by Democrat Edward J. Cronin.


1948 Massachusetts elections, Attorney General
Incumbent Republican Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes ran for re-election to a third consecutive term. He was defeated Democratic former Lt. Governor Francis E. Kelly in the general election. This was a re-match of the 1946 election.


1948 Massachusetts elections, Treasurer and Receiver-General
Incumbent Republican Treasurer and Receiver-General Laurence Curtis ran for re-election to a second term but was defeated by Democratic former Treasurer Francis E. Kelly. This was a re-match of the 1946 election.


1948 Massachusetts elections, Treasurer and Receiver-General
The Prohibition Party nominated Harold J. Ireland, and the Socialist Labor party nominated Malcolm T. Rowe.


1948 Massachusetts elections, Auditor
Incumbent Democratic Auditor Thomas J. Buckley ran for re-election to a fifth term in office. He was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Russell A. Wood, who he had defeated in 1940, 1942, and 1946.


1948 Massachusetts elections, Auditor
The Prohibition Party nominated Robert A. Simmons, and the Socialist Labor Party nominated Francis A. Votano.


1948 Massachusetts elections, United States Senate
Incumbent Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall ran for re-election to a full term in office. Saltonstall won the seat in the 1944 special election created by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr's resignation.


1948 Massachusetts elections, United States House of Representatives
All of Massachusetts' fourteen seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 1946.


1948 Massachusetts elections, United States House of Representatives
Eight seats were won by Republican Party incumbents, and six were won by Democratic candidates.


1948 Massachusetts elections, United States House of Representatives
Thirteen seats were won by candidates seeking re-election. The 2nd District seat (based in Springfield) was won by Democrat Foster Furcolo over incumbent Republican Charles R. Clason.


1948 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1948 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1948. Democrat Paul A. Dever defeated Republican incumbent Robert F. Bradford, Socialist Labor candidate Horace Hillis, and Prohibition candidate Mark R. Shaw.


1948 Masters Tournament
The 1948 Masters Tournament was the 12th Masters Tournament, held April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.


1948 Masters Tournament
Claude Harmon shot a record-tying 279 (−9) and finished five strokes ahead of runner-up Cary Middlecoff, a future champion in 1955. The Sunday gallery in 1948 was estimated at 10,000 spectators, and the tournament purse was $10,000. Harmon won $2,500 and his four-round score tied the record set by Ralph Guldahl in 1939. Primarily a club professional, it was Harmon's only tour victory.


1948 Masters Tournament
This was the final appearance as a player in the Masters for host Bobby Jones, then age 46. It was also the last Masters that did not immediately present the iconic green jacket to the winner. The nine winners of the first twelve tournaments received their green jackets in 1949.


1948 Masters Tournament
The five-stroke victory margin was matched by Ben Hogan in 1953; the record was raised to seven in 1955 by Cary Middlecoff, nine in 1965 by Jack Nicklaus, and twelve by Tiger Woods in 1997.


1948 Masters Tournament, Field
Jimmy Demaret (7,9), Ralph Guldahl (2), Herman Keiser (7,9), Byron Nelson (2,6,7,9), Henry Picard (6,9), Gene Sarazen (2,4,6), Horton Smith (9), Craig Wood (2)


1948 Masters Tournament, Field
Billy Burke, Johnny Farrell, Bobby Jones (3,4,5), Lawson Little (3,5,9), Lloyd Mangrum (7,9,10,12), Lew Worsham (7,10,12)


1948 Masters Tournament, Field
Jim Ferrier (9,10,12), Vic Ghezzi (9,10,12), Bob Hamilton, Ben Hogan (7,9,10)


1948 Masters Tournament, Field
Johnny Bulla, Fred Haas, Chandler Harper, Jug McSpaden, Dick Metz (10), Johnny Palmer (10), Toney Penna, Ellsworth Vines


1948 Masters Tournament, Field
Sammy Byrd, Ed Furgol, Leland Gibson (12), Chick Harbert (12), Claude Harmon, Joe Kirkwood Sr., Gene Kunes, Jim McHale Jr. (a), Bill Nary, Al Smith, Harry Todd


1948 Masters Tournament, Field
Bob Rosburg (a), Jack Selby (a), Felice Torza, Harvie Ward (a)


1948 Mauritian general election
General elections were held in Mauritius in August 1948. They were the first under a new constitution, which established a Legislative Council with 19 elected members, 12 appointed members and 3 ex officio members, and expanded the franchise to all adults who could write their name in one of the island's languages. They were won by the Labour Party led by Guy Rozemont, with eleven of the 19 elected seats won by Hindus. However, the Governor-General Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy appointed twelve conservatives to the Council on 23 August, largely to ensure the dominance of English and French speakers.


1948 Mauritian general election
They were the first elections held under the new constitution and the first in which women stood as candidate. Emilienne Rochecouste, who ran as an independent, was elected in Plaines Wilhems–Black River, becoming the first Mauritian woman elected to the Legislative Council. Following the elections, Denise De Chazal was appointed as one of the twelve nominated members.


1948 Mauritian general election, Results
The elections were held over two days, with Port Louis and Plaines Wilhems-Rivière Noire voting on 9 August and the remainder voting on 10 August.


1948 Meistaradeildin
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1948 Meistaradeildin
The 1948 Meistaradeildin was the sixth season of Meistaradeildin, the top tier of the Faroese football league system. B36 Tórshavn won its second championship.


1948 Meistaradeildin, Teams
A total of 6 teams participated in the league, facing each other once. Previous season's champions SÍ Sørvágur did not participate in the league. The same applied for SÍF Sandavágur and MB Miðvágur, who participated in the previous season. B36 and HB fielded two teams each, their first and their reserve team. KÍ from Klaksvík and VB from Vágur where the other two teams.


1948 Memorial Cup
The 1948 Memorial Cup final was the 30th junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA). The George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Hockey Association in Eastern Canada competed against the Abbott Cup champions Port Arthur West End Bruins of the Thunder Bay Junior Hockey League in Western Canada. In a best-of-seven series, held at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, Port Arthur won their 1st Memorial Cup, defeating Barrie 4 games to 0.


1948 Memorial Cup
CAHA president Al Pickard oversaw the playoffs in Western Canada. He supported a resolution where any radio station which broadcast a team's games during the regular season would not pay a premium for the additional playoffs games, and the appointment of Foster Hewitt as the national radio commissioner. Pickard did not want to grant exclusive radio broadcast rights to any station, and the CAHA decided that only out-of-town radio stations would pay a broadcast fee for final games in the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup.


1948 Memorial Cup
The Western Canada playoffs during 1948 did not include any teams from the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association. CAHA vice-president Doug Grimston attributed the lack of interest to the difficulty of teams from British Columbia to be competitive.


1948 Memorial Cup
Pickard scheduled the seventh game of the Western Canada junior final at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, where the finals were also scheduled. CAHA by-laws at the time stated that a seventh game be played at a neutral site and the Winnipeg Amphitheatre was unavailable. The decision was criticized in Western Canada, and the Winnipeg Free Press charged that the CAHA was "doing anything for a profit". Pickard responded that any money collected by the CAHA was contributed to the "good of hockey in Canada", and that approximately $78,000 of its annual $100,000 intake was reinvested into future development and covered travel expenses for teams during Allan Cup and Memorial Cup play.


1948 Memorial Cup
After game three of the final, Flyers' coach Hap Emms threatened that his team would not play the fourth game without a change of referees. Pickard declined to change the referees and the Bruins won the series in the fourth game. Pickard suspended Flyers' player Alf Guarda two years for striking referee Vic Lindquist during game four, and condemned the behaviour of Emms and the team's failure to respect on-ice officials.


1948 Memorial Cup, Winning roster
Fred Baccari, Barton Bradley, Lorne Chabot Jr., Alfie Childs, Dave Creighton, Pete Durham, Bobby Fero, Bert Fonso, Allan Forslund, Art Harris, Bill Johnson, Danny Lewicki, Rudy Migay, Norval Olsen, Benny Woit, Robbie Wrightsell, Jerry Zager. Coach: Ed Lauzon


1948 Memphis State Tigers football team
The 1948 Memphis State Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Memphis State College (now known as the University of Memphis) as an independent during the 1948 college football season. In their second season under head coach Ralph Hatley, Memphis State compiled a 6–5 record.


1948 Men's British Open Squash Championship
The 1948 Open Championship was the first time that a tournament was introduced after the challenge system was discontinued. The tournament was held at the Lansdowne Club in London from 08-15 March and was open to professionals and amateurs. The first winner of the competition in this format was the defending champion Mahmoud Karim who defeated Jim Dear in a close final lasting 52 minutes.


1948 Men's European Volleyball Championship
The 1948 Men's European Volleyball Championship was the first edition of the event, organized by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in Rome, Italy from September 24 to September 26, 1948.


1948 Mestaruussarja
The 1948 season was the eighteenth completed season of the Finnish Football League Championship known as the Mestaruussarja.


1948 Mestaruussarja, Overview
The Mestaruussarja was administered by the Finnish Football Association and the competition's 1948 season was divided into two groups: the Palloliiton league and the Työväen Urheiluliiton league, with the leading 6 teams from each group progressing to a final group along with the 4 leading teams from the Suomensarja. After the series had been played, VPS Vaasa and TPS Turku were tied with each having 24 points. These two teams then faced each other in a match that decided the championship. VPS won the match and the championship 3–0. The six lowest placed teams in the final group were relegated to the Suomensarja.


1948 Miami Hurricanes football team
The 1948 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami as an independent during the 1948 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Andy Gustafson, the Hurricanes played their home games at Burdine Stadium in Miami, Florida. Miami finished the season 4–6.


1948 Miami Redskins football team
The 1948 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1948 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach George Blackburn, Miami compiled a 7–1–1 record (4–0 against MAC opponents), won the MAC championship, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 249 to 90.


1948 Miami Redskins football team
Paul Shoults was the team captain. The team's statistical leaders included Paul Shoults with 624 rushing yards, Mel Olix with 939 passing yards, and Hal Paul with 238 receiving yards.


1948 Miami hurricane
The 1948 Miami hurricane (Air Weather Service designation: Fox) caused no fatalities in Florida, despite moving across the Miami area as a hurricane. The ninth tropical storm and fifth hurricane of the 1948 season, the storm developed from a large low pressure area over the northwestern Caribbean Sea on October 3. The storm intensified into a tropical storm early the next day and a hurricane several hours later. Fox then significantly deepened, peaking with winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) early on October 5. Around that time, Fox made landfall in eastern Pinar del Río Province of Cuba.


1948 Miami hurricane
Fox crossed the island and emerged into the Straits of Florida. Late on October 5, the hurricane struck Bahia Honda Key, Florida, with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h) and two hours later, hit Flamingo. Fox emerged into the Atlantic Ocean near Fort Lauderdale early on October 6. The storm moved northeastward and later curved to the east-northeast. Late on October 7, Fox made landfall on Bermuda with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). Fox weakened over the next several days and later executed a large cyclonic loop. By October 16, it became extratropical while well east-southeast of Newfoundland.


1948 Miami hurricane
In Cuba, homes and cattle were swept away by flash flooding. Eleven deaths and about 300 injuries were attributed to the tropical cyclone. Damage in the country reached about $6 million. The storm brought strong winds to Florida, with a sustained wind speed of 122 mph (196 km/h) at Naval Air Station Key West. Heavy rainfall exceeding 9.5 in (240 mm) in Miami and three tornadoes also contributed to the damage in South Florida. Throughout the state, 674 homes were severely damaged or destroyed, while 45 other buildings were demolished. Overall, damage in Florida reached $5.5 million and there were no deaths, but 36 injuries, none of which were serious. In Bermuda, buildings were unroofed and the sides of some structures were knocked down. Electrical light wires and telephone lines were toppled across the island. Damage totaled over $1 million.


1948 Miami hurricane, Meteorological history
A very large but weak and elongated low pressure area first noted over the Intertropical Convergence Zone on October 1  developed into a tropical depression around 12:00 UTC on October 3, while situated about 55 mi (90 km) southeast of the Swan Islands. The storm intensified into a tropical storm early on October 4 and was designated as Tropical Storm Fox by the Air Weather Service in real time, although the name Fox is not included in HURDAT. Several hours later, the storm intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.


1948 Miami hurricane, Meteorological history
A reconnaissance flight into the hurricane late on October 4 indicated winds near the center estimated at 90 mph (140 km/h). Early the following day, Fox became a Category 2 hurricane. At 06:00 UTC the system peaked as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h). About an hour later, Fox made landfall at the same intensity in eastern Pinar del Río Province of Cuba. Shortly before 12:00 UTC on October 5, the storm emerged into the Straits of Florida. Prior to reanalysis in 2014, it was thought that Fox briefly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph (215 km/h), but reanalysis instead revealed that the storm weakened to 125 mph (205 km/h) because the aforementioned wind speed was a gust rather than a sustained wind.


1948 Miami hurricane, Meteorological history
Fox weakened while moving northeastward and fell to Category 2 hurricane intensity by 18:00 UTC, at which time it made landfall on Bahia Honda Key, Florida, with winds of 105 mph (165  km/h). Continuing northeastward, the hurricane struck near Flamingo about two hours later at the same intensity. While passing near Miami early on October 6, Fox briefly weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. Shortly thereafter, it emerged into the Atlantic Ocean near Fort Lauderdale and quickly re-strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane.


1948 Miami hurricane, Meteorological history
After brushing Grand Bahama island, the storm continued on its northeasterly trajectory into the open sea, until curving east-northward on October 7. Around 12:00 UTC, a ship observed a barometric pressure of 971 mbar (28.7 inHg), the lowest in relation to the cyclone. Ten hours later, Fox made landfall on Bermuda with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). The storm fell to Category 1 early on October 8 and to tropical storm status after about 24 hours. Fox then meandered out in the central Atlantic for several days and executed a large cyclonic loop between October 11 and October 14. Fox turned northward on October 14 and began to accelerate. After curving northeastward, the storm transitioned into an extratropical cyclone early on October 16 while located about 535 mi (861 km) east-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. The remnants were absorbed by a cold front several hours later.


1948 Miami hurricane, Impact
The storm brought strong winds to Cuba, with a wind gust of 132 mph (212 km/h) in Havana. The city suffered considerable damage, forcing police to patrol for looters. Nearly all of the city was left without electricity. In some portions of the neighborhood of Miramar, flooding was reported. Trees were felled onto Paseo del Prado, a famous street in Havana. In other parts of the city, falling trees and rubble also disrupted transportation. There were heavy crop losses in Havana and Pinar Del Rio provinces, where several rivers overflowed their banks.


1948 Miami hurricane, Impact
Homes and cattle were swept away by flash flooding. Overall, the hurricane left eleven fatalities, three of them due to houses collapsing on their occupants. Additionally, there were about 300 injuries and an estimated $6 million in damage. After the storm, Cuban President Ramón Grau, President-elect Carlos Prío Socarrás, and Major General Genovevo Pérez Dámera – Chief of Staff of the Army – assessed damage in the Havana area and developed plans for recovery.


1948 Miami hurricane, Impact
The Hurricane Warning Service, operated by the United States Weather Bureau and the predecessor to the National Hurricane Center, issued hurricane warnings from Fort Myers to Miami, including the Florida Keys on October 4. Miami Weather Bureau chief Grady Norton urged residents to take precautions and concentrate on further advisories. On October 5, the hurricane warning was revised to include Naples to Jupiter. Additionally, other warnings were issued for areas surrounding Lake Okeechobee due to flooding concerns. Four U.S. Navy wartime housing project areas in Key West were evacuated.


1948 Miami hurricane, Impact
About 100 Seminoles fled the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation, with 95% of the property still inundated from the September hurricane. Two 25-car trains evacuated about 5,000 people in the Lake Okeechobee area in Lake Harbor and transported them to Sebring. Many residents throughout South Florida boarded-up their windows and sandbagged their properties. The American Red Cross opened 143 shelters, which 21,663 people sought refuge in.


1948 Miami hurricane, Impact
The hurricane, reminiscent of Hurricane Floyd in 1987, produced minimal damage in the Florida Keys. Strong winds were reported at some islands, with winds well over 100 mph (160 km/h) observed on Bahia Honda Key. At the Naval Air Station Key West on Boca Chica Key, several buildings were deroofed. The cyclone produced a storm surge of 4.5 ft (1.4 m) on Biscayne Bay. Rainfall exceeded 9.5 in (241.30 mm) at the Miami airport station, inundating many streets in the city and in Hialeah, Homestead, Miami Beach, Miami Springs.


1948 Miami hurricane, Impact
In Hialeah, the city mayor reported water depths of 3.5 ft (1.1 m) in the streets. A Miami bridge, located near the Miami River, was damaged by a loose barge during the hurricane. Planes were overturned and damaged by strong winds at the Tamiami Airport. Electrical outages occurred in Miami as power lines snapped due to the wind. In Miami Beach, a fire that broke out during the storm severely damaged a meat market and destroyed a photo shop. Prior to landfall, the hurricane produced three tornadoes, all of which attained the equivalence of F2 intensity on the modern Fujita scale. A tornado destroyed three homes in the city of Opa-locka, where damage reached $15,000. The tornado flipped cars and inflicted extensive damage at the Royal Palm dairy farm.


1948 Miami hurricane, Impact
Another tornado touched down just south of Pompano Beach demolished 25 homes and left $100,000 in damage and seven injuries. Forty-four minutes later, a third tornado struck homes west of Fort Lauderdale. One building, containing two stories, lost its roof, while five homes incurred damage. Barns were damaged or destroyed. Losses reached $15,000. West Palm Beach observed wind gusts up to 62 mph (100 km/h). The hurricane caused no fatalities across the state, which the Weather Bureau considered unusual due to the storm's path over the densely populated Miami metropolitan area.


1948 Miami hurricane, Impact
The passage of hurricane in September, which had resulted in pre-existing damage, mitigated the destruction from the October hurricane. Overall, 36 homes were destroyed and 638 others suffered serious impact, while 45 buildings were demolished and 50 others experienced damage. Total losses in Florida reached $5.5 million, which included $3.5 million to property, $1.5 million to crops, $400,000 to electricity and communications, and $100,000 to roads.


1948 Miami hurricane, Impact
In the Bahamas, wind gusts reached 110 mph (170 km/h) on Grand Bahama. Bermuda was also impacted by the hurricane, with strong winds blowing roofs off buildings, including a portion of the roof on the House of Assembly of Bermuda, and the sides of some structures were knocked down. Electrical light wires and telephone lines were down across the island. Kindley Air Force Base and the U.S. Naval Base received minimal damage. Damages exceeded $1 million.


1948 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team
The 1948 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1948 college football season. In their 26th and final season under head coach Elton Rynearson, the Hurons compiled a 3–5 record and were outscored by their opponents, 114 to 66. Claire E. Ebersole was the team captain.


1948 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team
Rynearson retired as head football coach after the 1948 season after 26 years in that position. He remained the school's athletic director. In his 26 years as head football coach, Rynearson compiled a record of 114–58–15 (.648), and his teams outscored their opponents, 2,574 to 1,415.


1948 Michigan State Spartans football team
The 1948 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State College in the 1948 college football season. In their second season under head coach Biggie Munn, the Spartans compiled a 6–2–2 record and were ranked #14 in the final AP Poll.


1948 Michigan State Spartans football team
Two Spartans received second-team honors on the 1948 College Football All-America Team. Guard Don Mason received second-team honors from the Associated Press, and end Warren Huey received second-team honors from the Football Writers Association of America.


1948 Michigan State Spartans football team
The 1948 Spartans sustained their two losses in annual rivalry games against Notre Dame (26-7) and national champion Michigan (13-7). In intersectional play, the Spartans beat Hawaii (68-21), Arizona (61-7), Oregon State (46-21), and Washington State (40-0), but tied with Penn State (14-14) and Santa Clara (21-21).


1948 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Michigan State opened it 1948 season with a 13–7 loss to Michigan in East Lansing. The game was also the first to be played at Michigan State's new Macklin Stadium. Early in the opening quarter, fullback Don Peterson threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Dick Rifenburg. Peterson kicked the extra point, and Michigan's 7–0 lead held through halftime. Michigan State tied the game in the third quarter on a disputed play in which a pass from Lynn Chandnois was caught by both Hank Minarik and Wally Teninga. The official ruled that possession went to the offensive player as a touchdown.


1948 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Peterson scored the winning touchdown for Michigan on a five-yard run in the fourth quarter, but failed to convert the extra point attempt. Late in the fourth quarter, Michigan State drove the ball to Michigan's two-yard line. With time running out, Teninga intercepted a Michigan State pass. Michigan's offense was held to 106 rushing yards and 117 passing yards in the game.


1948 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
A sluggish offensive performance and a narrow margin of victory over a team the Wolverines had beaten 55-0 in 1947 led some in the media to question Oosterbaan's selection as Michigan's new coach. The New York Times opined that Michigan's performance "lacked most of the precision which it had last year under H. O. Crisler." H. G. Salsinger of The Detroit News wrote:


1948 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
"Michigan's first game under Oosterbaan . . . was not impressive. They lacked the spark that distinguished them through the 1947 season. The offense was dull and poorly directed. . . . The critics who had judged Oosterbaan's football coaching skills on his record as a basketball coach considered their appraisal justified. The future looked dark for Michigan and Oosterbaan."


1948 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Opinions of Oosterbaan changed as Michigan shut out ranked opponents in each of the next three games. The Spartans, under second-year head coach "Biggie" Munn proved to be stronger than expected, finishing the season ranked No. 14 in the final AP Poll.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan during the 1948 Big Nine Conference football season. In its first year under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan compiled a 9–0 record, defeated six ranked opponents by a combined score of 122–17, and won both the Big Nine Conference and national football championships. In the final AP Poll, Michigan received 192 first place votes, twice as many as second-place Notre Dame which garnered 97 first place votes.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1948 season was Michigan's second straight undefeated, untied season. After Fritz Crisler led the 1947 team to a perfect 10–0 record, the Wolverines entered the 1948 season with a 14-game winning streak dating back to October 1946. Despite the loss of all four backfield starters from the 1947 team (including Big Nine MVP Bump Elliott and Heisman Trophy runner-up Bob Chappuis), the 1948 team extended the winning streak to 23 games.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team
On offense, Michigan was led by a new backfield that included All-American quarterback Pete Elliott and halfbacks Chuck Ortmann and Leo Koceski. The team scored 252 points, an average of 28 points per game. With Ortmann as the principal passer, the Wolverines relied on an air attack, gaining more yards in the air (1,355) than on the ground (1,262). Dick Rifenburg, the team's leading receiver, was picked as a first-team All-American at the end position. Team captain Dominic Tomasi was selected as the team's Most Valuable Player. The 1949 Michiganensian wrote of the 250-pound guard, "Famous for his sharp shattering blocking, Dom tore huge gaps in the opposing lines to pave the way for Michigan's steam roller offense."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team
On defense, the Wolverines allowed only 44 points, an average of 4.8 points per game. The defense was led by tackles Alvin Wistert and Al Wahl, center Dan Dworsky, and fullback Dick Kempthorn. Michigan gave up 935 passing yards and 851 rushing yards. The team shut out Oregon despite the passing game of College and Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Norm Van Brocklin. It also held ranked Purdue and Northwestern teams to 36 and 47 rushing yards, respectively. The defense forced a total of 32 turnovers (including 21 interceptions), an average of three-and-a-half turnovers per game.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
The 1947 Michigan team finished undefeated and untied with a 10–0 record. In March 1948, Fritz Crisler, who had been the Wolverine's head football coach since 1938, resigned as head coach but stayed on as athletic director. Crisler selected his backfield coach, Bennie Oosterbaan, as the new head coach. Oosterbaan had been affiliated with the Michigan football program for 24 years, as an All-American end from 1925 to 1927 and as an assistant football coach from 1928 to 1947. When the selection of Oosterbaan was announced, Crisler told the press, "Bennie has the best offense mind in football. He is the ablest assistant that I have ever had." Others questioned the choice, noting that Oosterbaan had compiled only a middling 81–72 record as Michigan's basketball coach from 1938 to 1946.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
Michigan entered the 1948 season with a 14-game winning streak dating back to October 29, 1946. Despite the winning streak, Michigan entered the 1948 season expected by many to finish third in the Big Nine behind Minnesota and Purdue. In addition to the coaching change, the team lost a number of key players from the 1947 team, including all four backfield starters.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
Bob Chappuis, who was the runner-up in voting for the 1947 Heisman Trophy, and Bump Elliott, who won the 1947 Big Nine MVP Trophy, were both gone, as were fullback Jack Weisenburger (the 1948 Big Nine rushing leader) and quarterback Howard Yerges. The 1948 team also lost its top two scorers (Chappuis and kicker Jim Brieske), two starting tackles (Bruce Hilkene and Bill Pritula), starting center (J. T. White), and two ends (Len Ford and Bob Mann) who went on to have successful careers in the NFL.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
The Wolverines suffered another setback when Gene Derricotte sustained an injury that limited his playing time. The Sporting News had picked Derricotte to be one of the Big Nine's two most valuable players in a pre-season feature story, calling him Michigan's best broken field runner since Tom Harmon. Derricotte began the season as Michigan's starting left halfback, but was injured in the first game against Michigan State. The new starting backfield in 1948 consisted of quarterback Pete Elliott, left halfback Chuck Ortmann, fullback Tom Peterson, and right halfbacks Leo Koceski and Wally Teninga.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Michigan State
Michigan opened the Oosterbaan era with a 13–7 victory over Michigan State College in East Lansing. The game was also the first to be played at Michigan State's new Macklin Stadium. Early in the opening quarter, fullback Tom Peterson threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Dick Rifenburg. Peterson kicked the extra point, and Michigan's 7–0 lead held through halftime. Michigan State tied the game in the third quarter on a disputed play in which a pass from Lynn Chandnois was caught by both Hank Minarik and Wally Teninga.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Michigan State
The official ruled that possession went to the offensive player as a touchdown. Peterson scored the winning touchdown for Michigan on a five-yard run in the fourth quarter, but failed to convert the extra point attempt. Late in the fourth quarter, Michigan State drove the ball to Michigan's two-yard line. With time running out, Teninga intercepted a Michigan State pass. Michigan's offense was held to 106 rushing yards and 117 passing yards in the game.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Michigan State
A sluggish offensive performance and a narrow margin of victory over a team the Wolverines had beaten 55–0 in 1947 led some in the media to question Oosterbaan's selection as Michigan's new coach. The New York Times opined that Michigan's performance "lacked most of the precision which it had last year under H. O. Crisler." H. G. Salsinger of The Detroit News wrote:


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Michigan State
"Michigan's first game under Oosterbaan . . . was not impressive. They lacked the spark that distinguished them through the 1947 season. The offense was dull and poorly directed. . . . The critics who had judged Oosterbaan's football coaching skills on his record as a basketball coach considered their appraisal justified. The future looked dark for Michigan and Oosterbaan."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Michigan State
Opinions of Oosterbaan changed as Michigan shut out ranked opponents in each of the next three games. The Spartans, under second-year head coach "Biggie" Munn proved to be stronger than expected, finishing the season ranked No. 14 in the final AP Poll.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Michigan State
Michigan's starting lineup against Michigan State was Rifenburg (left end), Atchison (left tackle), Tomasi (left guard), Dworsky (center), Heneveld (right guard), Wistert (right tackle), McNeill (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Derricotte (left halfback), Van Summern (right halfback), and Ghindia (fullback).


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Oregon
In its home opener, Michigan defeated the Oregon Webfoots, 14–0. Oregon came into the game with a highly touted passing game led by quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, who was later inducted into both the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame. Michigan's defensive fullback, Dick Kempthorn, was credited with playing a major role in stopping Van Brocklin's passing game. Northwestern coach Bob Voigts said he would pick Kempthorn if he had his choice of all the players in college football. In the second quarter, Michigan drove 93 yards, culminating in a 60-yard touchdown pass (30 yards in the air) from halfback Chuck Ortmann to Dick Rifenburg. Harry Allis kicked the extra point, and Michigan led 7–0 at halftime.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Oregon
An Oregon drive into Michigan territory was stopped in the third quarter when Ortmann intercepted a Van Brocklin pass. On the next drive, Charlie Lentz made his season debut for Michigan and threw a 42-yard pass to Pete Elliott who was downed inside the Oregon ten-yard line. Lentz then threw a short pass to Tom Peterson for the final touchdown, and Allis kicked the extra point. In the fourth quarter, Oregon drove the ball to the Michigan two-yard line, but Michigan's defense held and the ball went to Michigan on downs. Despite Van Brocklin's reputation, Michigan outgained Oregon 217 to 194 in passing yardage. The 1948 Oregon Webfoots finished the season with a record of 9–1, as co-champion of the Pacific Coast Conference, and ranked No. 9 in the final AP Poll.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Oregon
Michigan's starting lineup against Oregon was Rifenburg (left end), Soboleski (left tackle), Tomasi (left guard), Erben (center), Wilkins (right guard), Kohl (right tackle), McNeill (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Ortmann (left halfback), Koceski (right halfback), and Peterson (fullback).


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: at Purdue
In its third game, Michigan went on the road against a Purdue team that was ranked No. 15 in the AP Poll. Michigan won by a convincing score of 40–0. The game drew a crowd of 45,996, the largest in the history of Ross–Ade Stadium up to that time. Michigan's offense confused Purdue with a fake T formation that disguised a single-wing formation. Leo Koceski scored on a three-yard run to cap Michigan's opening drive. Michigan scored another first-quarter touchdown after Dan Dworsky intercepted a Bob DeMoss pass near midfield. Peterson scored on a two-yard run on a fake buck-lateral.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: at Purdue
Harry Allis converted the first extra point but missed on his second attempt. In the second quarter, Purdue drove the ball to Michigan's one-yard line, but Michigan's line, led by Wistert and Wahl, and backed up by Dworsky and Kempthorn, held and took over on downs. Michigan scored again in the second quarter on a 23-yard touchdown pass from Chuck Ortmann to Dick Rifenburg. Allis missed the extra point, and Michigan led 19–0 at halftime.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: at Purdue
In the third quarter, Wally Teninga threw a 57-yard touchdown pass to Rifenburg to extend the lead to 26–0. Early in the fourth quarter, Dick Kempthorn intercepted a DeMoss pass on the Purdue 22-yard line, and Teninga scored on a 10-yard run. On the next drive, Bob Samsen of Purdue fumbled, and Dworsky recovered the ball at the Purdue 34-yard line. Michigan did not score on that possession, but Purdue fumbled again, this time at its own 23-yard line. Once again, Michigan failed to capitalize on the turnover. Michigan scored its final touchdown later in the fourth quarter on a six-yard run by Charlie Lentz. Michigan's defense forced five turnovers (three interceptions and two fumble recoveries) and held Purdue to only 36 rushing yards and 122 passing yards in the game.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: at Purdue
Michigan's starting lineup against Purdue was Rifenburg (left end), Soboleski (left tackle), Tomasi (left guard), Dworsky (center), Wilkins (right guard), Kohl (right tackle), McNeill (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Ortmann (left halfback), Koceski (right halfback), and Peterson (fullback).


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Northwestern
In the fourth game of the season, Michigan faced Northwestern in Ann Arbor. The game matched the No. 3 team in the country (Northwestern) against the No. 4 team (Michigan). The Wolverines outgained the Wildcats 166 to 47 in rushing yards, as halfback Leo Koceski scored three touchdowns. Michigan scored late in the first quarter after Koceski returned a punt 37 yards to the Northwestern 33-yard line. In the third quarter, Michigan drove inside Northwestern's one-yard line, but the Wildcats' defense held and took over on downs.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Northwestern
The game remained close with Michigan leading 7–0 until late in the third quarter. Then, Michigan scored three touchdowns on seven plays. The scoring flurry began with a 45-yard punt return by Koceski to the Northwestern 22-yard line. With two seconds remaining in the third period, Teninga threw a jump pass to Koceski in the end zone to give Michigan a 14–0 lead. George Sundheim of Purdue fumbled the kickoff, and Harry Allis recovered the ball. On Michigan's second play from scrimmage, Chuck Ortmann threw a touchdown pass to Koceski.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Northwestern
On Northwestern's first play from scrimmage after the next kickoff, Northwestern's Don Burson threw a pass that was intercepted by Irv Wisniewski at the 35-yard line. Wisniewski returned the ball to Northwestern's 13-yard line. On Michigan's second play after the interception, Koceski fumbled the ball into the endzone, but the ball was recovered by center Bob Erben to give Michigan a 28–0 lead. Northwestern drove deep into Michigan territory late in the fourth quarter, but the drive ended when Charlie Lentz intercepted a Don Burson pass at the seven-yard line. Michigan's defense forced four turnovers in the game, three on interceptions and one on a fumble recovery.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Northwestern
Through the first four games, Michigan had given up only seven points, and those points came on a disputed touchdown call against Michigan State. Allison Danzig in The New York Times called Michigan the "Defensive Standout Among Nation's College Elevens" and singled out two players: "Two players, in particular, are credited with the success of the Wolverine defense. Dan Dworsky, center and Fullback Dick Kempthorn would seem to be the best pair of backers-up in the inter-collegiate ranks."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Northwestern
Michigan's starting lineup against Northwestern was Wisniewski (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Heneveld (left guard), Dworsky (center), Sickels (right guard), Wahl (right tackle), Clark (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Allis (left halfback), Teninga (right halfback), and Kempthorn (fullback).


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Minnesota
In week 5, Michigan traveled to Minneapolis for the annual Little Brown Jug game. The game was matched No. 1 Michigan against No. 13 Minnesota. Michigan won the game, 27–14. Despite being held to 22 rushing yards, Michigan gained 261 yards on forward passes. At the start of the second quarter, Gene Derricotte fumbled a punt on Michigan's 15-yard line, recovered the ball, ran backward to the two-yard line, and fumbled again. All-American Leo Nomellini recovered the ball and carried it into the endzone to give Minnesota a 7–0 lead.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Minnesota
Michigan drove to the Minnesota one-yard line on the next drive, but Tom Peterson fumbled and Minnesota recovered the ball at the 16-yard line. Two drives later, Michigan finally converted on a seven-yard touchdown pass from Wally Teninga to Tom Peterson. Less than 90 seconds after Peterson's tying touchdown, Michigan took the lead when Ed McNeill blocked a Minnesota punt, and Quentin Sickels recovered the ball at the one-yard line. Peterson ran it in for his second touchdown. Minnesota drove to Michigan's one-yard line at the end of the second quarter, but the clock expired and Michigan led 13–7 at halftime.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Minnesota
Minnesota took a 14–13 lead in the third quarter on a 69-yard drive capped by a touchdown run by Everett Faunce. On the next possession, Michigan drove 77 yards and took a 20–14 lead on a 37-yard touchdown pass to Dick Rifenburg. Rifenburg fumbled the ball at the five-yard line, but recovered his own fumble and continued into the endzone. In the fourth quarter, Wally Teninga intercepted a Bill Elliott pass on Michigan's 11-yard line and returned the ball 26 yards.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Minnesota
Chuck Ortman connected with Leo Koceski on a jump pass that covered 62 yards (the last 50 by Koceski after the reception) to give Michigan its fourth touchdown. After watching Michigan's dominating performances over the best teams in the Big Nine Conference, Walter W. Ruch wrote in The New York Times that there could not be much doubt that "Oosterbaan has fashioned perhaps the finest team in the country."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Minnesota
Michigan's starting lineup against Minnesota was Rifenburg (left end), Soboleski (left tackle), Tomasi (left guard), Erben (center), Wilkins (right guard), Kohl (right tackle), McNeill (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Ortmann (left halfback), Koceski (right halfback), and Peterson (fullback).


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Illinois
In the sixth week of the season, Michigan held its homecoming festivities and extended its winning streak to 20 games with a 28–20 win over Illinois. Michigan held on a goal-line stand in the first quarter (first-and-goal from the five-yard line), and Illinois failed to convert a field goal on fourth down. After a scoreless first quarter, Michigan went 98 yards on a drive that included a Statue of Liberty play by Leo Koceski and ended with a 15-yard bullet pass from Pete Elliott to Ed McNeill. Illinois followed with its own touchdown drive, capped by long touchdown run off a screen pass to Paul Patterson. The game was tied 7–7 at halftime.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Illinois
On the opening kickoff in the second half, Illinois' Dwight Eddleman returned the kick 95 yards for an apparent touchdown, but the play was nullified due to an offside penalty. Michigan reclaimed the lead in the third quarter with 14-yard touchdown pass from Peterson to Rifenburg. Michigan extended its lead to 21–7 on a two-yard run by Wally Teninga later in the third quarter. Illinois scored its own third-quarter touchdown after Leo Koceski fumbled and Illinois recovered the ball at the Michigan 29-yard line.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Illinois
Early in the fourth quarter, Bernie Krueger scored on a quarterback sneak to cut Michigan's lead to 21–20. Michigan's final touchdown came on a 38-yard pass from Chuck Ortmann to Harry Allis. Allis converted all four extra point attempts in the game. Michigan outgained Illinois on the ground 102 to 40, but Illinois dominated in the air with 256 passing yards to 132 for Michigan. The New York Times called the game, witnessed by a homecoming crowd of 85,938, "one of the wildest fights in Big Nine history" and added, "What a battle this was! Not for a second could one be sure of the outcome."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Illinois
Michigan's starting lineup against Illinois was Rifenburg (left end), Soboleski (left tackle), Tomasi (left guard), Erben (center), Wilkins (right guard), Kohl (right tackle), McNeill (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Ortmann (left halfback), Koceski (right halfback), and Peterson (fullback).


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Navy
In the seventh game of the 1948 season, Michigan defeated Navy, 35–0, in front of a sellout crowd at Michigan Stadium. Michigan scored in the first quarter on a one-yard run by Chuck Ortmann. Tom Peterson extended Michigan's lead with a touchdown run in the second quarter. Michigan added two touchdowns in the third quarter on a run by Wally Teninga and an 18-yard touchdown pass from Bob Van Summern to Dick Rifenburg. The final touchdown came in the fourth quarter on a 60-yard touchdown pass from Ortmann to Rifenburg.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Navy
Michigan outgained Navy on the ground 231 yards to 73 yards. Michigan's defense allowed only 119 yards of total offense (73 rushing yards and 46 passing yards), recovered three Navy fumbles and intercepted two passes, one by Dick Kempthorn and the other by Dan Dworsky. With the game in hand, Oosterbaan played the reserves, reportedly placing 44 players into the game.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Navy
Michigan's starting lineup against Navy was Rifenburg (left end), Soboleski (left tackle), Tomasi (left guard), Erben (center), Wilkins (right guard), Kohl (right tackle), McNeill (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Ortmann (left halfback), Koceski (right halfback), and Peterson (fullback).


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Indiana
In the eighth game of the 1948 season, Michigan defeated Indiana, 54–0, for its most decisive win of the year. Michigan gained 435 yards of total offense, 285 on the ground and 150 in the air. The defense held Indiana, which was led by George Taliaferro, to 159 yards of total offense, 96 rushing and 63 passing. Michigan's eight touchdowns were scored by Tom Peterson, Dick Kempthorn, Harry Allis, Chuck Ortmann, Dick Rifenburg, Wally Teninga, Don Dufek and fullback Al Jackson.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Indiana
Ortmann completed eight of 15 passes for 123 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown toss to Allis in the second quarter. Pete Elliott also threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Rifenburg in the third quarter. Allis's streak of 14 straight extra point conversions was broken, as he kicked six extra points on eight tries. In its account of the game, the 1949 Michiganensian quipped, "Every man on the Michigan bench got into the ball game, and some spectators claimed that it was Hank Hatch, the equipment manager, who tallied the last Wolverine touchdown."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Indiana
Michigan's starting lineup against Indiana was Clark (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Heneveld (left guard), Dworsky (center), Sickels (right guard), Allis (right tackle), McNeill (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Derricotte (left halfback), Teninga (right halfback), and Kempthorn (fullback).


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: at Ohio State
Michigan concluded its 1948 season with a 13–3 win over Ohio State in Columbus. The game was played in front of a crowd of 82,754 spectators – the second largest crowd in Ohio Stadium history up to that time. Although Michigan was favored in the game by 14 points, Ohio State dominated the line of scrimmage in the first half, allowing only three first downs by Michigan, one of which came on a penalty. Ohio State took a 3–0 lead in the first quarter on a 26-yard field goal by Jim Hague.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: at Ohio State
The kick followed a fumble recovery by Jack Lininger after an errant lateral by Chuck Ortmann. Michigan took the lead in the second quarter on a 92-yard drive culminating with a 44-yard touchdown pass from Ortmann to Harry Allis. In the fourth quarter, Michigan drove 62 yards for a second touchdown led by the passing of Wally Teninga and Pete Elliott. The touchdown was scored by fullback Tom Peterson. Allis converted the first extra point, but missed on the second. Ohio State outgained Michigan on the ground 130 yards to 54, but Michigan outgained Ohio State in the air 116 yards to 73.


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: at Ohio State
Michigan's starting lineup against Ohio State was Rifenburg (left end), Soboleski (left tackle), Tomasi (left guard), Erben (center), Wilkins (right guard), Kohl (right tackle), McNeill (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Ortmann (left halfback), Koceski (right halfback), and Peterson (fullback).


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, National championship and post-season honors
In the final AP Poll released at the end of November 1948, Michigan was the pick for "the mythical national football championship." The sports writers voting in the final poll cast their first place votes as follows: Michigan (192), Notre Dame (97), North Carolina (31), and Oklahoma (30). Notre Dame finished the 1948 season with an undefeated 9–0–1 record, but Michigan's record was better against four of five common opponents. Writing in The New York Times, sports writer Allison Danzig wrote: "Another college football season ends with Michigan and Notre Dame again at the top."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, National championship and post-season honors
Despite winning the Big Nine championship, Michigan was ineligible to represent the conference in the 1949 Rose Bowl. A Big Nine rule prohibited any team from making more than one Rose Bowl appearance in three years. Having represented the Big Nine in the 1948 Rose Bowl, Michigan would not be eligible to return to Pasadena until the 1950 season. The New York Times wrote that Michigan's victories "made a mockery of the arrangement which prevents a Big Nine team from succeeding itself in the Rose Bowl assignment."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, National championship and post-season honors
In early December 1948, Bennie Oosterbaan was selected as the "Coach of the Year" in a nationwide poll of football coaches. Oosterbaan received 61 first place votes, nearly double the 33 first place votes cast for runner-up Lynn Waldorf of California. With Fritz Crisler having received the honor in 1947, Oosterbaan's selection was the first time the award had been given in consecutive years to coaches from the same university. Writing in the New York World-Telegram, Lawrence Robinson described the coaches' rationale for honoring Oosterbaan:


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, National championship and post-season honors
"They knew what Oosterbaan must have faced, taking over a championship team, generally rated No. 1 in the country in 1947 . . . and that had lost its entire backfield, both tackles, the center and the star end. They realize what it took to rebuild a team and keep it at a winning tempo. . . . They also knew that in all football  there is no more solid citizen than quiet, modest Bennie Oosterbaan . . ."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, National championship and post-season honors
End Dick Rifenburg and tackle Al Wistert were also honored in the post-season as consensus first-team players on the 1948 College Football All-America Team. Pete Elliott was also picked by the INS (the Hearst newspaper wire service) as a first-team All-American at defensive quarterback. Those same three players, as well as guard Dominic Tomasi, were selected as first-team All-Big Nine Conference players. Although Chuck Ortmann was not selected as a first-team All-American, Tommy Devine opined in The Sporting News:


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, National championship and post-season honors
"This blond, tousled-haired youngster from Milwaukee played the key role in moving Michigan to its second straight Western Conference championship and another claim to the national title. . . . Off his 1948 performance, Ortmann already is being rated along with the scintillating Tom Harmon and brilliant Bob Chappuis among Michigan's modern great backs."


1948 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Letter winners
The following 34 players received varsity letters for their participation on the 1948 football team.


1948 Michigan gubernatorial election
The 1948 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1948. Democratic nominee G. Mennen Williams defeated incumbent Republican Kim Sigler with 53.41% of the vote.


1948 Milan–San Remo
The 1948 Milan–San Remo was the 39th edition of the Milan–San Remo cycle race and was held on 19 March 1948. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Fausto Coppi of the Bianchi team.


1948 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1948 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1948 Big Nine Conference football season. In their 14th year under head coach Bernie Bierman, the Golden Gophers compiled a 7–2 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 203 to 94.


1948 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Guard Leo Nomellini was named All-American by Walter Camp Football Foundation, Associated Press (AP), Collier's Weekly/Grantland Rice, The Sporting News, INS, Look Magazine, Football Writers Association of America and the American Football Coaches Association. Nomellini and end Bud Grant were also named All-Big Ten.


1948 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Total attendance for the season was 308,556, which averaged to 61,711. The season high for attendance was against Purdue.


1948 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
In week 5, Minnesota met Michigan in the annual Little Brown Jug game. The game was matched No. 1 Michigan against No. 13 Minnesota. Michigan won the game, 27–14. Despite being held to 22 rushing yards, Michigan gained 261 yards on forward passes. At the start of the second quarter, Gene Derricotte fumbled a punt on Michigan's 15-yard line, recovered the ball, ran backward to the two-yard line, and fumbled again. All-American Leo Nomellini recovered the ball and carried it into the end zone to give Minnesota a 7–0 lead.


1948 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Michigan drove to the Minnesota one-yard line on the next drive, but Tom Peterson fumbled and Minnesota recovered the ball at the 16-yard line. Two drives later, Michigan finally converted on a seven-yard touchdown pass from Wally Teninga to Tom Peterson. Less than 90 seconds after Peterson's tying touchdown, Michigan took the lead when Ed McNeill blocked a Minnesota punt, and Quentin Sickels recovered the ball at the one-yard line. Peterson ran it in for his second touchdown. Minnesota drove to Michigan's one-yard line at the end of the second quarter, but the clock expired and Michigan led 13–7 at halftime.


1948 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Minnesota took a 14–13 lead in the third quarter on a 69-yard drive capped by a touchdown run by Everett Faunce. On the next possession, Michigan drove 77 yards and took a 20–14 lead on a 37-yard touchdown pass to Dick Rifenburg. Rifenburg fumbled the ball at the five-yard line, but recovered his own fumble and continued into the endzone. In the fourth quarter, Wally Teninga intercepted a Bill Elliott pass on Michigan's 11-yard line and returned the ball 26 yards.


1948 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Chuck Ortman connected with Leo Koceski on a jump pass that covered 62 yards (the last 50 by Koceski after the reception) to give Michigan its fourth touchdown. After watching Michigan's dominating performances over the best teams in the Big Nine Conference, Walter W. Ruch wrote in The New York Times that there could not be much doubt that "Oosterbaan has fashioned perhaps the finest team in the country."


1948 Minnesota gubernatorial election
The 1948 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1948. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Luther Youngdahl defeated Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party challenger Charles Halsted.


1948 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1948 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1948. Incumbent Lieutenant Governor C. Elmer Anderson of the Republican Party of Minnesota defeated Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party challenger John T. McDonough.


1948 Mississippi Southern Southerners football team
The 1948 Mississippi Southern Southerners football team was an American football team that represented Mississippi Southern College (now known as the University of Southern Mississippi) as a member of the Gulf States Conference during the 1948 college football season. In their ninth year under head coach Reed Green, the team compiled a 7–3 record.


1948 Mississippi State Maroons football team
The 1948 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1948 college football season. This was the only of head coach Allyn McKeen's nine seasons that did not end in a winning record for the Maroons. Despite the strong record — his .764 (65–19–3) winning percentage is the best in school history — McKeen was fired after the season. The Maroons, who had won 7 or more games in six of McKeen's nine seasons, would not post another 7-win season until 1963.


1948 Mississippi State Maroons football team, Schedule
The Clemson matchup was mentioned in a Jerry Clower comedy sketch in the 1974 Country Ham album.


1948 Missouri Tigers football team
The 1948 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Seven Conference (Big 7) during the 1948 college football season. The team compiled an 8–3 record (5–1 against Big 7 opponents), finished in second place in the Big 7, lost to Clemson in the 1949 Gator Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 331 to 161. Don Faurot was the head coach for the 11th of 19 seasons. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.


1948 Missouri Tigers football team
The team's statistical leaders included Dick Braznell with 484 rushing yards, Bus Entsminger with 633 passing yards, 1,084 yards of total offense, and 54 points scored, and Mel Sheehan with 346 receiving yards.


1948 Missouri gubernatorial election
The 1948 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1948 and resulted in a victory for the Democratic nominee, State Auditor Forrest Smith, over the Republican nominee Murray Thompson, and candidates representing the Progressive, Socialist and Socialist Labor parties.


1948 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1948 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1948. Democratic nominee James T. Blair Jr. defeated Republican nominee George H. Miller with 57.83% of the vote.


1948 Monaco Grand Prix
The 1948 Monaco Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race, held in Monte Carlo on 16 May 1948.


1948 Monaco Grand Prix
The first event under a new formula, 1½ litres supercharged or 4½ litres naturally aspirated, it featured a motley crowd of marques. Jean-Pierre Wimille's 1,430 cc (87 cu in) Simca-Gordini took an early lead, but was overwhelmed by the Maserati 4CLs of Giuseppe Farina and then Luigi Villoresi. Farina would take the win.


1948 Montana Grizzlies football team
The 1948 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 1948 college football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). The Grizzlies were led by tenth-year head coach Doug Fessenden, played their home games at Dornblaser Field and finished the season with a record of three wins and seven losses (3–7, 0–3 PCC).


1948 Montana State Bobcats football team
The 1948 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State University in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1948 college football season. In its third season under head coach Clyde Carpenter, the team compiled a 2–7 record.


1948 Montana gubernatorial election
The 1948 Montana gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1948. Incumbent Governor of Montana Sam C. Ford, who was first elected Governor in 1940 and was re-elected in 1944, ran for re-election. He won the Republican primary and advanced to the general election, where he faced John W. Bonner, the former Attorney General of Montana and the Democratic nominee. Ultimately, Bonner defeated Ford handily in his bid for re-election, winning his first and only term as governor.


1948 Murray State Thoroughbreds football team
The 1948 Murray State Thoroughbreds football team represented Murray State University during the 1948 college football season. In their first season under head coach Fred Faurot, the Thoroughbreds compiled a 9–1–1 record, won the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) in their first year of its existence with a 3–1 record against conference opponents, and outscored their opponents by a total of 290 to 87. Murray State was invited to the 1949 Tangerine Bowl, where they tied undefeated Sul Ross.


1948 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1948 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 11th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. The championship game featured Louisville beating Indiana State 82-70.


1948 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament
The only school to have won national titles in both the NAIA and NCAA Division I is Louisville. Uniquely, Indiana State has finished as the National Runner-up in the NAIA (1946 and 1948), the NCAA Division I (1979) and the NCAA Division II (1968) tournaments. Indiana State won the NAIA in 1950.


1948 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament
The tournament was the first intercollegiate postseason to feature a black student-athlete, Clarence Walker of Indiana State under coach John Wooden. Wooden had withdrawn from the 1947 tournament because the NAIB would not allow Walker to play.


1948 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, Awards and honors
Many of the records set by the 1948 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:


1948 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, 1948 NAIA bracket, 3rd place game
The third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.


1948 NC State Wolfpack football team
The 1948 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 1948 college football season. The Wolfpack were led by fifth-year head coach Beattie Feathers and played their home games at Riddick Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina. They competed as members of the Southern Conference.


1948 NCAA Baseball Tournament
The 1948 NCAA Baseball Tournament was the second NCAA-sanctioned baseball tournament that determined a national champion. The tournament was held as the conclusion of the 1948 NCAA baseball season. The 1948 College World Series was played at Hyames Field on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan from June 25 to 26. The tournament champion was Southern California coached by Sam Barry and Rod Dedeaux. It was the Trojans' first of 12 championships through the 2019 season.


1948 NCAA Baseball Tournament, Tournament
The tournament was divided into two regional brackets, the Eastern Playoff and the Western Playoff. Unlike the previous year, this year's tournament was double-elimination.


1948 NCAA Baseball Tournament, Tournament, Field
As with the inaugural tournament, each representative of the eight districts was determined by a mix of selection committees, conference champions, and district playoffs.. Eight teams were divided among the East and West brackets. The district playoffs would later expand to become regionals, but were originally not part of the NCAA-sanctioned championship play.


1948 NCAA Baseball Tournament, College World Series, Results
The 1948 College World Series was a best of three series, like the first tournament in 1947.


1948 NCAA Basketball Tournament
The 1948 NCAA Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 19, 1948, and ended with the championship game on March 23 in New York City. A total of 10 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national third place game.


1948 NCAA Basketball Tournament
Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp, won the national title with a 58–42 victory in the final game over Baylor, coached by Bill Henderson. Alex Groza of Kentucky was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.


1948 NCAA Basketball Tournament, Locations
The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 1948 tournament:


1948 NCAA Cross Country Championships
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1948 NCAA Cross Country Championships
The 1948 NCAA Cross Country Championships were the tenth annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States.


1948 NCAA Cross Country Championships
Since the current multi-division format for NCAA championship did not begin until 1973, all NCAA members were eligible. In total, 18 teams and 131 individual runners contested this championship.


1948 NCAA Cross Country Championships
The meet was hosted by Michigan State College on November 22, 1948, at the Forest Akers East Golf Course in East Lansing, Michigan. The distance for the race was 4 miles (6.4 kilometers).


1948 NCAA Cross Country Championships
The team national championship was won by the host Michigan State Spartans, their second overall. The individual championship was won by Robert Black, from Rhode Island State, with a time of 19:52.84, a new distance record. Black's four mile time, which replaced Greg Rice's 1938 time of 20:12.9, would remain in place until 1953.


1948 NCAA Golf Championship
The 1948 NCAA Golf Championship was the tenth annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf in the United States.


1948 NCAA Golf Championship
The tournament was held at the Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, California.


1948 NCAA Golf Championship
San Jose State won the team title, nine strokes ahead of defending champions LSU on the leaderboard. Coached by Wilbur V. Hubbard, this was the Spartans' first NCAA team national title.


1948 NCAA Golf Championship
The individual championship was won by Bob Harris, also from San Jose State.


1948 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The consensus 1948 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of three major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the Helms Athletic Foundation, and Converse.


1948 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1948 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1947–48 NCAA men's ice hockey season, the 1st such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 18 and 20, 1948, and concluded with Michigan defeating Dartmouth 8-4. All games were played at the Broadmoor Ice Palace in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


1948 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
This inaugural tournament possesses two distinctions beyond being the first of its kind: it was the championship with the fewest games played (3) with all succeeding tournaments having a minimum of 4 games. Additionally, the overtime rules used were not sudden-death, allowing Michigan to score multiple times in the first overtime game in tournament history (the next overtime game would not happen until 1954).


1948 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
Four teams qualified for the tournament, two each from the eastern and western regions. The teams were selected by a committee based upon both their overall record and the strength of their opponents.


1948 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The eastern and western teams judged as better were seeded as the top regional teams. The second eastern seed was slotted to play the top western seed and vice versa. All games were played at the Broadmoor Ice Palace. All matches were Single-game eliminations with the semifinal winners advancing to the national championship game.


1948 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1948 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships  were contested in March 1948 at the Intramural Sports Building at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the 12th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


1948 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Hosts Michigan topped three-time defending champions, and rivals, Ohio State in the team standings, capturing the Wolverines' sixth national title.


1948 NCAA Tennis Championships
The 1948 NCAA Tennis Championships were the 3rd annual tournaments to determine the national champions of NCAA men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.


1948 NCAA Tennis Championships
The team championship was won by defending champions William & Mary, their second team national title. The Indians finished one point ahead of San Francisco (6–5) and Harry Likas at UCLA In Los Angeles.


1948 NCAA Tennis Championships, Host site
This year's tournaments were hosted by UCLA in Los Angeles, California.


1948 NCAA Tennis Championships, Team scoring
Until 1977, the men's team championship was determined by points awarded based on individual performances in the singles and doubles events.


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships
The 1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships were held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in June 1948. The University of Minnesota won the team title. Two NCAA meet records were broken, and one American record was tied, at the event. Fortune Gordien was the high point scorer for Minnesota as he won the discus thrown and finished second in the shot put, accounting for 18 of Minnesota's points.


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships
Clyde "Smackover" Scott tied the world record in the 110-meter high hurdles with a time of 13.7 seconds.


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships
Mel Patton was the only athlete to win two events at the meet. Patton won both the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes.


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships
Charlie Fonville of the University of Michigan won the shot put competition with a distance of 54 feet, defending his 1947 NCAA title.


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Team scoring
1. Minnesota – 462. University of Southern California – 411⁄23. Texas – 404. Illinois – 341⁄45. California – 191⁄4


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
100-meter dash 1. Mel Patton, Univ. South. Calif. 2 . Don Anderson, California 3. Charles Parker, Texas


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
110-meter high hurdles 1. Clyde Scott, Arkansas 2. W.F. Porter, Northwestern 3. Craig Dixon, UCLA


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
200-meter dash 1. Mel Patton, Univ. South. Calif. 2. Charles Parker, Texas 3. Paul Bienz, Tulane


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
400-meter dash 1. Norman Rucks, South Carolina  2. Arthur Harnden, Texas A&M 3. John Hammack, U.S. Military Academy


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
400-meter hurdles 1. George Walker, Illinois 2. Jeffrey Kirk, Penn 3. Ron Frazier, Univ. South. Calif.


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
800-meter run 1. Mal Whitfield, Ohio State 2. Jack Dianetti, Michigan State 3. Bob Chambers, Univ. South. Calif.


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
1,500-meter run 1. Don Gehrman, Wisconsin 2. Herbert Barten, Michigan 3. Roland Sink, Univ. South. Calif.


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
3,000-meter steeplechase 1. Browning Ross, Villanova 2. W.O. Overton, Alabama Polytechnic Inst. 3. James Kittell, Notre Dame


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
5,000-meter run 1. Jerry Thompson, Texas 2. Horace A. Shenfelter, Penn State 3. Quentin Briesford, Ohio Wesleyan


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Broad jump 1. Willie Steele, San Diego State – 24 feet, 111⁄2 inches 2. James Holland, Northwestern - 24 feet, 61⁄2 inches3. Lorenzo Wright, Wayne – 24 feet, 51⁄4 inches


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
High jump 1. Dwight Eddleman, Illinois – 6 feet, 7 inches 1. Irving Mondschein, NYU – 6 feet, 7 inches3. Charles Hangar, California – 6 feet, 6 inches 3. Vern McGrew, Rice – 6 feet, 6 inches3. Lou Irons, Illinois – 6 feet, 6 inches3. Tom Scofield, Kansas – 6 feet, 6 inches


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Pole vault 1. Warren Bateman, Colorado – 14 feet 1. George Rasmussen, Oregon – 14 feet 3. Harry Cooper, Minnesota – 13 feet, 10 inches


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Discus throw 1. Fortune Gordien, Minnesota – 164 feet, 61⁄2 inches 2. Victor Frank, Yale – 164 feet, 32⁄3 inches 3. George Kadera, Texas A&M – 155 feet, 11⁄2 inches


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Javelin 1. Frank Held, Stanford – 209 feet, 8 inches 2. Francis Friedenbach – 204 feet, 51⁄2 inches 3. Frank Guess, Texas – 199 feet


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Shot put 1. Charlie Fonville, Michigan – 54 feet, 7 inches 2. Fortune Gordien, Minnesota – 52 feet, 73⁄8 inches 3. Rollin Prather, Kansas State – 52 feet, 37⁄8 inch


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Hammer throw 1. Samuel H. Felton, Jr. – 170 feet, 91⁄4 inches 2. George Marsanskis, Maine – 170 feet, 5 inches 3. Jim Burnham, Dartmouth – 168 feet


1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Hop, step and jump 1. Lloyd Lamois, Minnesota – 45 feet, 10 inches 2. John Gough, Oklahoma – 45 feet, 71⁄2 inches 3. John Robertson, Texas – 44 feet, 91⁄2 inches


1948 NCAA Wrestling Championships
The 1948 NCAA Wrestling Championships were the 18th NCAA Wrestling Championships to be held. Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hosted the tournament at Taylor Gymnasium.


1948 NCAA Wrestling Championships
Oklahoma A&M took home the team championship with 33 points and having two individual champions.


1948 NCAA Wrestling Championships
Bill Koll of Iowa State Teachers College was named the Outstanding Wrestler.


1948 NCAA baseball season
The 1948 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1948. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1948 NCAA Baseball Tournament and 1948 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the second time in 1948, consisted of the two remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and was held in Kalamazoo, Michigan at Hyames Field as a best of three series. Southern California claimed the championship two games to one over Yale.


1948 NCAA baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1948 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. Conference champions had to be chosen, unless all conference champions declined the bid.


1948 NCAA baseball season, NCAA tournament
The 1948 season marked the second NCAA Baseball Tournament, which consisted of eight teams divided into two brackets by region. The Eastern Playoff was held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina while the Western Playoff was held in Denver, Colorado. Unlike the previous year, a double-elimination format was used. The winner of each bracket advanced to the College World Series in Kalamazoo, MI, where Southern California defeated Yale in a best of three series.