1955 Chicago Cubs season
The 1955 Chicago Cubs season was the 84th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 80th in the National League and the 40th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs finished sixth in the National League with a record of 72–81.


1955 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1955 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1955 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Chicago Cubs season, Farm system
Gainesville franchise transferred to Ponca City and renamed, May 19, 1955


1955 Chicago White Sox season
The 1955 Chicago White Sox season was the team's 55th season in the major leagues, and its 56th season overall. They finished with a record 91–63, good enough for third place in the American League, 5 games behind the first place New York Yankees.


1955 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases


1955 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


1955 Chicago mayoral election
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1955, Richard J. Daley was elected to his first term as mayor by a ten-point margin.


1955 Chicago mayoral election
This was the narrowest margin of victory of any of Daley's mayoral races.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Background
Democrats had won all citywide elections since 1931. During the countywide elections of November 1954, Republicans were handed a heavy defeat. Since the municipal elections would exclude the Republican party's suburban bastions of support (many of which partook in the Cook County elections), it was expected that Republicans would do even worse in the municipal elections. Among the Democrats which had won election in 1954 was Richard J. Daley, who was elected Cook County Clerk with a 390,000 plurality.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Background
Incumbent Democratic mayor Martin H. Kennelly had some challenges heading into the election. He saw disapproval among both white and black citizens for his handling of the city's rising racial tensions. His distance from organized labor and his push for civil service reform had earned strong disapproval from many in the Democratic Party organization. In addition, the ambitious Richard J. Daley had been elected the new Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Daley defeated incumbent mayor Martin H. Kennelly and State Representative Benjamin S. Adamowski in the Democratic primary.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Kennelly announced on December 1, 1954 that he would seek reelection. His campaign would be managed by Frank Keenan.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Daley, the new Cook County Democratic Party chairman, refused Kennelly the party's endorsement, and instead ran against Kennelly in the primary, taking the party's endorsement for himself. One reason for this was that Daley and others anticipated that likely Republican nominee Robert Merriam would be a strong candidate, and believed that Kennelly might be too weak to defeat him. Additionally, Kennelly had lost support of segments of the city's African American electorate due to his failure to address crime and reform the city's police department. The Democratic establishment also feared that Kennelly would disassemble the city's patronage system. Kennelly was also blamed by many Democrats for failing to quell disputes within the party which had led to an underperformance of the party in the previous aldermanic election.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Adamowski was formerly a political ally of Daley. Adamowski framed his candidacy as opposing the political machine. He had been hoping that Kenelly would ultimately withdraw from the race, leaving the race an effectively two-man campaign between him and Daley. Adamowski was then counting on the anti-machine vote compounded with his popularity among the city's sizable Polish electorate to possibly secure him a victory over Daley.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
In the backdrop, during the lead up to the primary election, was racial tensions at the Trumbull Park Homes, operated by the Chicago Housing Authority. White residents violently protested the presence of number of black families in the housing project. The CHA consequently "froze" the number of black families it would allow to live in the project, but this did little to quell the protests. Kennelly did not intervene. This massively turned black voters against Kennelly's candidacy.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
With dwindling prospects of receiving the black vote, Kennelly made a miscalculation and attempted to receive white backlash votes. He utilized racial stereotypes in his campaign, and made blatant attempts at race baiting. Attempting to use William L. Dawson as a boogeyman, he claimed that Dawson was the one who "pushed the controls in the 'Dump Kennelly project". Daily news outlets echoed his accusations. African American press outlets such as The Chicago Defender strongly criticized Kennelly's tactics. Kennelly's racist campaign ultimately drove strong African-American support for Daley's candidacy, as black voters were now driven to kick Kennelly out of office.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Without machine backing, Kennelly framed his campaign as a fight of, "the people against the bosses", arguing that he had won the opposition of the machine due to his attempts at civil service reform challenging the patronage system. Kenelly's anti-machine positioning became rather opportune when a scandal broke with reports that Alderman Benjamin Becker, the machine's slated candidate City Clerk had been receiving kickbacks from zoning case revenue from an attorney that was a former 40th Ward machine operative.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Kenelly thought he could beat Daley's machine organizing with use of television commercials.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Daley's campaign, being backed by the Democratic machine, were run out of their base in the Morrison Hotel. Daley's campaign focused on coordinating efforts and assisting the ward organizations that would turn out voters on Election Day. Daley spent little time campaigning before the general electorate or proposing policy on hot-button issues, and most of his candidacy focused on machine oiling the gears of the machine, appearing mostly before machine workers and ward organizations rather than before the general electorate.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Luncheons and rallies were held for precinct captains at the large downtown hotels and at numerous civic centers across the city. On Valentine's Day of 1955, Daley spoke before an audience of nearly 5,000 machine workers jammed into the Civic Opera House. In his speeches before machine workers and leaders, Daley exalted the machine.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Daley's camp was able to get many government workers, beneficiaries of patronage and concerned about their jobs in light of Kennelly's plans for civil service reform, to strongly back Daley's candidacy.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Daley's supporters used some threats of violence in their coercion of support.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Daley's operations were well-funded by the machine. Much of the nefariously obtained "juice money" the machine had raked in went to support get-out-the-vote efforts for Daley. Additionally, they were able to extract financial backing from companies that did business with the city and the county, which were concerned about securing their government contracts.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
To combat any anti-machine sentiments, Daley sought to associate himself with individuals that would give him an appearance of being a reform candidate. He had a lawyer that had been an important backer of Paul Douglas's 1948 US Senate campaign to head the "Volunteers for Daley" committee that was to attract non-machine Democrats to Daley's candidacy.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Daley tried to frame the division in the city as not being machine vs. reformers, but rather business elites vs. blue collar neighborhoods. His supporters, portraying Kennelly as a strong elite, even attempted to portray machine boss Daley as a sort of working-class underdog. Daley also received backing from fraternal organizations and the city's major labor unions. This trade union backing further strengthened Daley's working-class bonafides.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Daley was not above the selective use of dog whistles. On one occasion. speaking before a largely white group of 7,500 United Packinghouse Workers of America Workers on February 17, 1955, Daley said that the Chicago Police Department should "not be used to advance the interests of any one group over another", which was a dog whistle for meaning that he did not support the role of police integrating Trumbull Park.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Both Kennelly and Adamowski sought to illustrate a dark future if Daley were elected.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary
Towards the end of the campaign, opinion polling showed Kenelly leading by a significant margin. A Chicago Tribune poll showed almost 57% of 104 respondents backing Kennelly and only 33% backing Daley. Kenelly's camp was tooting their horn at signs that the support lay with their candidate. Kennelly's camp was hoping for high turnout, especially since the primary fell on the bank and school holiday of Washington's Birthday. His camp believed that a turnout above 900,000 would secure him reelection.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary
Robert E. Merriam won the Republican Party nomination. Merriam was a land developer who had been elected twice to the Chicago City Council as an independent Democrat, receiving sizable Republican support both times. In order to capture the party's mayoral nomination, Merriam changed his affiliation to Republican. Merriam was a liberal. Merriam's own father had been the Republican nominee in Chicago's 1911 mayoral election, and had also unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in 1919.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary
In City Council, Merriam had been the leader of a reformer group dubbed the "economy bloc" due to their skepticism to wasteful spending by the machine of city dollars. He was also the chairman of the City Council's crime committee, and the host of the television show named Spotlight on Chicago, both of which had earned him anti-crime bonafides. He was seen as a handsome, charismatic, and articulate candidate.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary
He was not unanimously backed by Republicans, with many ward bosses not wanting to hand the nomination to an individual they did not personally consider to be a true Republican. However, he received the strong backing of governor William Stratton.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Merriam had hoped that the contested Democratic primary would create enough discord in the Democratic party that its electorate might fracture, giving room for a Republican victory.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
The city's three largest newspapers, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and Chicago Daily News all endorsed him. While Merriam did receive the endorsement of the Chicago Tribune, the city's leading Republican newspaper was not enthusiastic about him, viewing him as a fake-Republican. The city's fourth-largest daily newspaper, the Chicago Herald-American, endorsed Daley. It was reported that the Democratic machine had brokered a deal with the ailing Herald-American where their precinct captains would sell subscriptions to the newspapers in exchange for their endorsing Daley.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Three of the city's four daily newspapers cast very negative coverage on the Democrats during the campaign. The Republicans also laid strong criticism of the Democratic Party. This caused the Democratic Party to alter its plans, which were to run a minimal public campaign, and run a more visible unified Democratic campaign for municipal offices.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
There was thought given to the possibility that Kennelly might endorse Merriam to help sabotage Daley's prospects. However, Democratic machine operatives were able to convince Kennelly that Merriam had sought to have him indicted during earlier criminal investigations. Kennelly ultimately disbelieved Merriam's denial of these claims, and opted against endorsing either candidate. Adamowski also declined to endorse Merriam.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Daley and Merriam had contrasting personalities. Merriam had a polished and refined speaking style, while Daley had a thick ethnic Chicago accent and a more brash and clumsy speaking style. Merriam had an image of an intellectual, while Daley had a more working-class image and appeal.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
In the heavily Democratic city of Chicago, Daley regularly reminded voters of his and Merriam's party affiliations during the campaign. He also mocked Merriam for being neither a loyal Democrat nor loyal Republican, accusing him of trying to convince Democrats he was not a Republican and Republicans that he was not a Democrat, and remarking at a debate, "I can't think of anything more difficult than trying to mate an elephant with a donkey" (referring to the Republican elephant mascot and Democratic donkey mascot).


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Merriam sought to get those who voted for Kennelly and Adamowski in the party primaries to cross party-lines, trying to persuade them that his politics were a natural landing ground for supporters of the anti-machine candidates. To attract Kennelly supporters, he pledged that, if elected mayor, he would reappoint Kennelly's Civil Service Commission chairman, an appointee of Kennely's who had received the animus of the Democratic machine.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
The Independent Voters of Illinois, a typically Democratic-leaning organization, endorsed Merriam.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Issues were not a heavy focus in the campaign. Daley only campaigned on mere platitudes and vague stances. Merriam, on the other hand, offered specific and creative solutions. For instance, to improve transit, Merriam proposed replacing the elevated tracks of The Loop with a subway system and offering transfers  between commuter train lines and the city's bus system.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Daley attempted to appeal to black voters as someone who supported their civil rights struggle without scaring-off white voters by taking too strong and concrete a stance on such matters. These efforts appeared to pay off. The leading African-American newspaper, The Chicago Defender, endorsed Daley. However, he was also endorsed by the vehemently anti-integration South Deering Improvement Association.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
The Democratic machine used some underhanded tactics to hamper Merriam's support. For instance, in the city's working class white Bungalow Belt, it circulated letters claiming praise of Merriam from the made-up "American Negro Civic Association". The also spread rumors in the same neighborhoods that Merriam's wife was black. To hamper his appeal to Catholic voters, they circulated copies of Merriam's divorce papers. In a television appearance on behalf of Daley, Thomas E. Keane praised Daley's family unit by remarking that, "Daley has seven children and they are all his own," reminding viewers that Merriam, who was divorced and remarried, was raising two children his wife had had from her own previous marriage.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Daley continued to have the support of trade unions in the general election.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Daley continued his strategy used in the primary of receiving the backing of reform Democrats to deflect criticisms of his machine involvement. In the general election he received the endorsement of 1952 Democratic presidential nominee and former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson II. In turn, Daley quickly endorsed Stevenson for president in the forthcoming 1956 election.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Merriam sought to illustrate a dark future if Daley were elected. He presented an image of an era of corruption if Daley won.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
After the Chicago Bar Association brought charges against Benjamin Becker, Daley had him removed from the ticket, and John Marcin, previously the nominee for City Treasurer, take his place as City Clerk nominee (and had Morris B. Sachs become City Treasurer nominee).


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Daley and the Democratic machine had a vast financial advantage over Merriam's campaign.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results
Daley's victory can be, in large part, credited to strong support from the city's African American voters. Approximately 20% of the city's voters were African American. Merriam's failure can, likewise, be largely credited to his failure to capture enough of the African American electorate.


1955 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results
Daley's win was the narrowest victory in a Chicago mayoral race in over a decade.


1955 Chico State Wildcats football team
The 1955 Chico State Wildcats football team represented Chico State College during the 1955 college football season. Chico State competed in the Far Western Conference in 1955. They played home games at Chico High School in Chico, California.


1955 Chico State Wildcats football team
The 1955 Wildcats were led by second-year head coach Gus Manolis. Chico State finished the season with a record of seven wins and two losses (7–2, 5–0 FWC). The Wildcats outscored their opponents 194–108 for the season.


1955 Chico State Wildcats football team, Team players in the NFL
No Chico State players were selected in the 1956 NFL Draft.


1955 Cincinnati Bearcats football team
The 1955 Cincinnati Bearcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1955 college football season. In their first year under head coach George Blackburn, the Bearcats compiled a 1–6–2 and were outscored by a total of 199 to 97.


1955 Cincinnati Redlegs season
The 1955 Cincinnati Redlegs season was a season in American baseball. It consisted of the Redlegs finishing in fifth place in the National League, with a record of 75–79, 23½ games behind the NL and World Series Champion Brooklyn Dodgers. The Redlegs were managed by Birdie Tebbetts and played their home games at Crosley Field.


1955 Cincinnati Redlegs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1955 Cincinnati Redlegs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1955 Cincinnati Redlegs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Cincinnati Redlegs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Cincinnati Redlegs season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision
The 1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision occurred on January 12, 1955, when a Trans World Airlines Martin 2-0-2 on takeoff from Boone County Airport (now the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport) collided in mid-air with a privately owned Douglas DC-3 that had entered the airport's control space without proper clearance. None of the occupants of either plane survived the collision.


1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision, Aircraft and crews
The TWA plane, flown by Captain J. W. Quinn and co-pilot Robert K. Childress, with air hostess (flight attendant) Patricia Ann Stermer, was a regularly scheduled flight bound for Dayton, Ohio, en route to Cleveland. Ten passengers were aboard.


1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision, Aircraft and crews
The DC-3 was piloted by Arthur "Slim" Werkhaven of Sturgis, Michigan, with co-pilot Edward Agner of Battle Creek, Michigan, and was being flown from Battle Creek en route to Lexington, Kentucky. They were to pick up Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Van Lennep. Mrs. Van Lennep, the former Frances Dodge, was an officer of the firm that owned the plane and founded the Dodge Stables at Meadow Brook Farm, later moving Dodge Stables to Castleton Farm in Lexington. The plane would have carried the Van Lenneps to Delray Beach, Florida.


1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision, Collision and crash
The Martin 2-0-2A had just taken off from the airport on Runway 22 and was climbing in a right turn through a cloud base at 700–900 ft when the collision occurred about 9:00 am. The DC-3 was en route from Michigan flying VFR heading roughly south towards Lexington. The right wing of the Martin 2-0-2 struck the left wing of the DC-3, which caused the right wing of the Martin to separate and the DC-3 experienced fuselage, rudder, and fin damage. Following the collision, both aircraft crashed out of control, hitting the ground about two miles apart. The wreckage of one of the aircraft fell along Hebron-Limaburg Road, two miles northeast of Burlington, Kentucky. The crash had no survivors from either aircraft.


1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision, Aftermath
The control tower, operated by the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA), reported that it had no record of a flight plan for either aircraft. A CAA spokesman said that radio messages from the TWA plane shortly after takeoff indicated the pilot was "alarmed and excited". The spokesman also said the pilot was cleared for takeoff and to make a right turn out.


1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision, Aftermath
TWA later filed a $2 million damage suit against the Castleton Corporation of Kentucky.


1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision, Aftermath
The probable cause was determined to be operating the  DC-3 in a controlled zone with unknown traffic, i.e. no clearance received and no communication with the airport tower.


1955 Clarence state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Clarence on 26 March 1955 following the death of Cecil Wingfield (Country). All three candidates were endorsed by the Country Party


1955 Claxton Shield
The 1955 Claxton Shield was the 16th annual Claxton Shield, and was held in Sydney. The participants were hosts New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, defending champions Victoria and Western Australia. The series was won by the New South Wales for their eighth Shield title.


1955 Clemson Tigers football team
The 1955 Clemson Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Clemson College in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1955 college football season. In its 16th season under head coach Frank Howard, the team compiled a 7–3 record (3–1 against conference opponents), finished third in the ACC, and outscored opponents by a total of 206 to 144. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.


1955 Clemson Tigers football team
Quarterback Don King was the team captain. The team's statistical leaders included Don King with 586 passing yards, halfback Joel Wells with 782 rushing yards, and halfback Joe Pagliei with 43 points (7 touchdowns, 1 extra point).


1955 Clemson Tigers football team
Joel Wells was selected by both the Associated Press and United Press as a first-team player on the 1955 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team. Six Clemson players were also named to the 1955 All-South Carolina football team: Wells, back Billy O'Dell, end Willie Smith, tackle Dick Marazza, guard John Grdijan, and center Wingo Avery.


1955 Cleveland Browns season
The 1955 Cleveland Browns season was the team's sixth season with the National Football League. The Browns' defense became the first defense in the history of the NFL to lead the league in fewest points allowed and fewest total yards allowed for two consecutive seasons.


1955 Cleveland Browns season
The defending NFL champion Browns were 9–2–1 in the regular season and won the Eastern Conference. They played in the NFL Championship Game for the sixth consecutive year, and repeated as champion with a 38–14 win over the Rams in Los Angeles.


1955 Cleveland Browns season, Season summary
The 1955 season began in rough fashion for the Browns, with the defending world champions losing 27–17 at home in the opener to the Washington Redskins, who had their best season in a decade by finishing second in the Eastern Conference at 8–4. But once hall of fame quarterback Otto Graham got back on track, so did the Browns.


1955 Cleveland Browns season, Season summary
With Graham, who had been lured out of retirement when the team experienced problems at that position in training camp, leading the way, the Browns then went on to win six in a row and nine of their last 11 to finish 9–2–1 and capture their sixth consecutive conference title. The Browns then blasted the host Los Angeles Rams 38–14 in the league title game, after which Graham retired again – this time for good, ending the club's remarkable first decade of existence in which it played in the league championship contest all 10 times and won seven crowns.


1955 Cleveland Browns season, Season summary
The Browns really caught fire offensively in the last five games. Including the title contest, they averaged 37.8 points per outing during that span, in which they won four times and played to a 35–35 tie with the New York Giants. Also, earlier in the year, they won the important road rematch with the Redskins, 24–14.


1955 Cleveland Browns season, Season summary
On the season, Graham threw for 15 touchdowns with just eight interceptions for a 94.0 quarterback rating, the second-best mark of his six-year NFL career. The Browns had three receivers with 29 or more catches, combining for 18 TDs. Pete Brewster was tops in receptions with 34, with Ray Renfro leading the way in scores with eight. Also, the Browns had something they hadn't had since their first year in the NFL—that is, a big-yardage running back. Fred "Curly" Morrison rushed for 824 yards, the most by a Brown since the team joined the league in 1950, when hall of famer Marion Motley had 810 yards.


1955 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1955 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1955 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1955 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Colgate Red Raiders baseball team
The 1955 Colgate Red Raiders baseball team is a baseball team that represented Colgate University in the 1955 NCAA baseball season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Red O'Hora. The Red Raiders qualified for the District 2 Tournament, where they would win a spot in the 1955 College World Series, where they finished fourth.


1955 Colgate Red Raiders football team
The 1955 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1955 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Hal Lahar, the team compiled a 6–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 164 to 107. Francis Angeline was the team captain. The team played its home games at Colgate Athletic Field in Hamilton, New York.


1955 College Baseball All-America Team
An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. From 1947 to 1980, the American Baseball Coaches Association was the only All-American selector recognized by the NCAA.


1955 College Football All-America Team
The 1955 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1955. The eight selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1955 season are (1) the All-America Board (AAB), (2) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), (3) the Associated Press, (4) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (7) the Sporting News (SN), and (8) the United Press (UP).


1955 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans
For the year 1955, the NCAA recognizes eight published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.


1955 Colorado A&M Aggies football team
The 1955 Colorado A&M Aggies football team represented Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the Skyline Conference during the 1955 college football season. In their ninth and final season under head coach Bob Davis, the Aggies compiled an 8–2 record (6–1 against Skyline opponents), won the conference championship, and outscored all opponents by a total of 175 to 108.


1955 Colorado A&M Aggies football team
Three Colorado Agricultural players received all-conference honors in 1955: halfback Gary Glick, center Bob Weber, and guard Dan Mirich. Bob Davis was also named Skyline Conference Coach of the Year.


1955 Colorado A&M Aggies football team
The team's statistical leaders included Jerry Callahan with 302 passing yards, Gary Glick with 579 rushing yards and 48 points scored, and Gary Sanders with 351 receiving yards.


1955 Colorado A&M Aggies football team
Bob Davis resigned as Colorado A&M's head football coach in January 1956 in order to devote his full energy to his duties as the school's athletic director.


1955 Colorado Buffaloes football team
The 1955 Colorado Buffaloes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1955 college football season. Head coach Dallas Ward led the team to a 3–3 mark in the "Big 7" and 6–4 overall.


1955 Colorado State Bears baseball team
The 1955 Colorado State Bears baseball team represented Colorado State College of Education in the 1955 NCAA baseball season. The Bears played their home games at Jackson Field. The team was coached by Pete Butler in his 13th year at Colorado State.


1955 Colorado State Bears baseball team
The Bears won the District VII playoff to advance to the College World Series, where they were defeated by the Arizona Wildcats.


1955 Columbia Lions football team
The 1955 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1955 college football season.


1955 Columbia Lions football team
In their 26th season under head coach Lou Little, the Lions compiled a 1–8 record, and were outscored 251 to 74. Manfredo Bucci was the team captain.


1955 Columbia Lions football team
This would be Columbia's final year as a football independent, as the Ivy League, which Columbia had helped co-found in 1954, began football competition in 1956. Six of the nine opponents on Columbia's 1955 schedule were Ivy League members (with Penn the only Ivy not scheduled); for decades, (future) Ivy members had comprised a large portion of Columbia's opponents.


1955 Columbia Lions football team
Columbia played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.


1955 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
The 1955 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the seventh Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in January 1955 and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.


1955 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
A sense of international crisis loomed over the conference which occurred during which the First Taiwan Strait Crisis as were other international developments such as the sudden resignation of Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov and the fall of French prime minister Pierre Mendès France, all of which were discussed. Atomic energy for peaceful purposes, disarmament, and trade and economic development in the Sterling area, and regional defence were also discussed, in particular the defence of South East Asia, the formation of SEATO and in particular the ongoing insurgency in Malaya.


1955 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Pakistan informed the meeting that it was to become a republic and the meeting affirmed that Pakistan would be welcome to remain in the Commonwealth.


1955 Connecticut Huskies football team
The 1955 Connecticut Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1955 college football season. The Huskies were led by fourth year head coach Bob Ingalls, and completed the season with a record of 4–4.


1955 Connecticut floods
The Flood of 1955 was one of the worst floods in Connecticut's history. Two back-to-back hurricanes saturated the land and several river valleys in the state, causing severe flooding in August 1955. The rivers most affected were the Mad River and Still River in Winsted, the Naugatuck River, the Farmington River, and the Quinebaug River. The towns that suffered much loss include Farmington, Putnam, Naugatuck, Waterbury, and Winsted. 87 people died during the flooding, and property damage across the state was estimated at more than $200 million, in 1955 figures. The floods prompted changes in safety measures, river monitoring, and zoning laws.


1955 Connecticut floods, Background, Causes
The flooding was caused by the rains from two hurricanes, Hurricane Connie and Hurricane Diane. On August 11, Hurricane Connie swept through the East Coast—missing Connecticut, but bringing about 4 to 6 inches of rainfall to the state on August 13. Hurricane Diane came through the following week. The path of Hurricane Diane came closer to Connecticut, after soaking up waters from the Atlantic Ocean. Once the hurricane reached the coast of Long Island, it dumped an additional 13 to 20 inches of rain on Connecticut over a two-day period.


1955 Connecticut floods, Background, Causes
The heavy rains on already-saturated ground made several rivers in the region begin to overflow. Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island experienced flooding, but Connecticut was hardest hit in New England. New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania were also hit by flooding caused by the two hurricanes. Two months later, another storm brought an additional 12 to 14 inches of rain to New England—hitting some communities that had been affected by the August floods, and others that had escaped.


1955 Connecticut floods, Flooding
The rains poured down for much of the day Thursday, August 18, starting at about 3:00 AM. By 11:00 PM, the Shepaug River and brooks in the western portion of the state had begun to overflow their banks. In Waterbury, the water reached an estimated 35 feet in places, and was reported to have moved at rates up to 50 miles per hour. While major rivers, such as the Connecticut River, had flood control measures in place, smaller rivers and brooks did not. That is where the major damage occurred. The Housatonic River in Western Connecticut reached 24.50 feet—its highest levels until October 1955, when it again reached 24.50 feet. On noon of August 20, 1955, President Eisenhower declared Connecticut a "major disaster area".


1955 Connecticut floods, Rescue efforts
Police forces, volunteer firefighters, Connecticut National Guard members, the Coast Guard, and average citizens worked together to rescue people from their homes and other buildings where they became stranded. At 1:00 AM on August 19, as the water began rising over the banks of several rivers, Gov. Abraham Ribicoff mobilized the National Guard. More than 25 helicopters—from the U.S. Navy and local companies like Sikorsky—were used to rescue hundreds of people from rooftops and tree branches where they clung to life. The flood hit the Naugatuck river with such fury that as many as 500 people in the Waterbury area had to be rescued by helicopter.


1955 Connecticut floods, Impact, Damage
A Sunday-Herald reporter, who flew over the region the day after the floods, described the area as "a staggering toll of death in a shroud of mud". The death toll was 87 people—including people who suffered heart attacks while being rescued.


1955 Connecticut floods, Impact, Damage
The following damage figures were outlined in the state report three months after the flood:


1955 Connecticut floods, Impact, Damage
In New England, more than 200 dams suffered partial or total failure. More than 50 coffins floated away from a cemetery in Seymour. The state shipped in 300 temporary housing units from Groton, to help provide shelter for the newly homeless.


1955 Connecticut floods, Impact, Changes
The floods prompted the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build $70 million worth of dams and flood walls along several Connecticut rivers. In 1960, the Army Corps built the Thomaston Dam. The Thomaston Dam on the Naugatuck River is one of the largest flood control measures erected by the Army Corps of Engineers. Following the building of the Thomaston Dam; the Corps built the Northfield Brook Dam, in 1965, and the Colebrook Dam, in 1969. Also Hop Brook dam in Naugatuck finished in 1968.


1955 Constitution of Ethiopia
Emperor Haile Selassie proclaimed a revised constitution in November 1955 of the Ethiopian Empire. This constitution was prompted, like its 1931 predecessor, by a concern with international opinion. Such opinion was particularly important at a time when some neighboring African states were rapidly advancing under European colonial influence and Ethiopia was pressing its claims internationally for the incorporation of Eritrea, where an elected parliament and more modern administration had existed since 1952.


1955 Constitution of Ethiopia
This constitution was suspended by the Derg in their Proclamation No. 1, which was broadcast 15 September 1974, three days after Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed.


1955 Constitution of Ethiopia, Overview
The new constitution consisted of eight chapters and 131 articles. This document was drawn up by three American advisors—A.H. Garretson, John Spencer, and Edgar Burlington—who worked with two leading figures of the restored monarchy, Wolde Giyorgis Wolde Yohannes and Aklilu Habte-Wold. After each session the two Ethiopian officials would then report to the Crown Council; according to Spencer, "In many instances, the Crown Council, dominated by the extreme conservative, Ras Kassa, would veto our proposals and we would then seek some compromise formula. Progress was extremely slow."


1955 Constitution of Ethiopia, Overview
While clearly "not a mirror image" of the U.S. Constitution, Edmond Keller notes it contained a number of ideas from that document, such as a separation of powers between three branches of government, and careful attention given to detailing the "Rights and Duties of the People", to which 28 articles were devoted.


1955 Constitution of Ethiopia, Overview
Despite this element, in his memoirs John Spencer lamented that the Crown Council forced the constitution's authors to stress the prerogatives of the crown, giving the emperor the right to rule by emergency decree, to appoint and dismiss ministers without input from the Ethiopian parliament, and to appoint members of the Senate, judges, and even the mayors of municipalities. Spencer also regretted that many of the rights were enjoyed "subject to the law"! Bahru Zewde stresses the nature of these executive powers in his discussion of this document, noting that it was "a legal charter for the consolidation of absolutism." Bahru quotes the relevant section from Article 4 of the Constitution: "By virtue of His Imperial Blood, as well as by the anointing which he has received, the person of the Emperor is sacred, His dignity is inviolable and His power indisputable."


1955 Constitution of Ethiopia, Overview
Despite this strengthening of the Emperor's position, the purview of the bicameral Ethiopian parliament was expanded over the 1931 constitution. Although the Senate remained appointive, the Chamber of Deputies was elected. In contrast to the legislature under the 1931 Constitution which could only discuss matters referred to it, it now had the authority to propose laws and veto laws proposed by the executive. It could also summon ministers for questioning, and in extraordinary circumstances it could initiate impeachment proceedings against them. Keller believes its most significant new power was its budgetary function: parliament now had the responsibility of approving or rejecting all proposed budgets, including taxes and allocations.


1955 Constitution of Ethiopia, Overview
However, in John Turner's opinion, the absence of a census, the near total illiteracy of the population, and the domination of the countryside by the nobility meant that the majority of candidates who sought election in 1957 were in effect chosen by the elite. The Chamber of Deputies was not altogether a rubber stamp, at times discussing bills and questioning state ministers.


1955 Cook by-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Cook on 21 May 1955. This was triggered by the death of Labor MP Tom Sheehan.


1955 Cook by-election
The by-election was won by Labor candidate Jim Cope. The governing Liberal Party did not nominate a candidate, which resulted in Cope receiving over 85% of the first preference vote.


1955 Copa del Generalísimo
The 1955 Copa del Generalísimo was the 53rd staging of the Spanish Cup. The competition began on 17 April 1955 and concluded on 5 June 1955 with the final.


1955 Copa del Generalísimo Final
The Copa del Generalísimo 1955 Final was the 53rd final of the King's Cup. The final was played at Estadio Chamartín in Madrid, on 5 June 1955, being won by Atlético de Bilbao, who beat Sevilla CF 1-0.


1955 Copa del Generalísimo Juvenil
The 1955 Copa del Generalísimo Juvenil was the fifth staging of the tournament. The competition began on May 1, 1955, and ended on June 5, 1955, with the final.


1955 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 1955 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 46th staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909.


1955 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
Youghal won the championship following a 4-06 to 2-05 defeat of Mallow in the final. This was their first ever championship title in the grade.


1955 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 1955 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 67th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.


1955 Cork Senior Football Championship
On 23 October 1955, Lees won the championship following a 3-04 to 0-09 defeat of Macroom in the final at the Cork Athletic Grounds. This was their 12th and final championship title overall and their first title since 1923.


1955 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
The 1955 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 67th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The championship began on 27 March 1955 and ended on 16 October 1955.


1955 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
On 16 October 1955, St. Finbarr's won the championship following a 7-8 to 2-6 defeat of Glen Rovers in a replay of the final. This was their 15th championship title overall and their first title in eight championship seasons.


1955 Cornell Big Red football team
The 1955 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University as an independent during the 1955 college football season. In its ninth season under head coach George K. James, the team compiled a 5–4 record and outscored its opponents 159 to 134. Dick Jackson was the team captain.


1955 Cornell Big Red football team
This would be Cornell's final year as a football independent, as the Ivy League, which Cornell had helped co-found in 1954, began football competition in 1956. All seven Ivy League opponents appeared on Cornell's 1955 schedule; the Big Red had been playing most of their games against (future) Ivy teams for decades.


1955 Cornell Big Red football team
Cornell played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.


1955 Cornwall MRC Formula 1 Race
The 3rd Cornwall MRC Formula 1 Race was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 30 May 1955 at the Davidstow Circuit, Cornwall. The race was run over 20 laps of the little circuit, and was won by British driver Leslie Marr in a Connaught Type B.


1955 Cornwall MRC Formula 1 Race
This was the third and last Formula One race to be held in Cornwall.


1955 Cornwall MRC Formula 1 Race, Results
† Collins entered a Maserati 250F but elected to race at Crystal Palace instead.


1955 Cotton Bowl Classic
The 1955 Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season college football bowl game between the Southwest Conference champion Arkansas Razorbacks and the champions of the SEC, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Georgia Tech defeated Arkansas, 14–6, in front of 75,550 spectators. Arkansas would get their revenge in the 1960 Gator Bowl, a 14–7 Hog win.


1955 Cotton Bowl Classic, Setting
Arkansas lost only two games by a total of eight points, despite being picked to finish next-to-last in the SWC during the preseason. The Razorbacks were propelled by their most memorable win, against the #5 Ole Miss Rebels, on what is called the Powder River Play. The game turned on a 66-yard pass from tailback Buddy Bob Benson to blocking back Preston Carpenter, the only score of the game. The halfback pass gave Arkansas the 6-0 in War Memorial Stadium. The play was called "perhaps the most important in Arkansas football history to that time" by Orville Henry. Arkansas had struggled winning bowl games, entering at 1-0-2.


1955 Cotton Bowl Classic, Setting
Georgia Tech, however, was very rich in bowl tradition. Bobby Dodd's Ramblin' Wreck had played in four Orange Bowls and three Sugar Bowls entering this matchup. Assistant coach Frank Broyles would become a legend coaching the Razorbacks from 1958-76, including winning the 1964 National Championship.


1955 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
The Razorbacks and Yellow Jackets played to a scoreless tie until Razorback sophomore QB/HB George Walker scored, completing an 80-yard drive before halftime. Walker could not connect on the extra point, however, and Arkansas would go up only 6-0. After halftime, Georgia Tech would take over. The Jackets' powerful running game produced two touchdowns, first by Paul Rotenberry, then by Wade Mitchell, and Arkansas could gain only eight yards rushing in the second half, the combination of which proved enough to defeat the Porkers, 14-6.


1955 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
Georgia Tech won their ninth of eleven bowl games, while Arkansas' record in the postseason dropped to 1-1-2.


1955 County Championship
The 1955 County Championship was the 56th officially organised running of the County Championship. Surrey won the Championship title for the fourth successive year.


1955 Coupe de France Final
The 1955 Coupe de France Final was a football match held at Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes on May 29, 1955, that saw Lille OSC defeat FC Girondins de Bordeaux 5–2 thanks to goals by Jean Vincent, Yvon Douis (2) and Gérard Bourbotte (2).


1955 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
The 1955 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was the 9th edition of the cycle race and was held from 11 June to 19 June 1955. The race started in Valence and finished at Grenoble. The race was won by Louison Bobet of the Mercier team.


1955 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
The 1955 Ukrainian Cup was a football knockout competition conducting by the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR and was known as the Ukrainian Cup.


1955 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Teams, Non-participating teams
The Ukrainian teams of masters did not take part in the competition.


1955 Cupa României
The 1955 Cupa României was the 18th edition of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition.


1955 Cupa României
The title was won by CCA București against Progresul Oradea.


1955 Cupa României, Format
In the first round proper, two pots were made, first pot with Divizia A teams and other teams till 16 and the second pot with the rest of teams qualified in this phase. First pot teams will play away. Each tie is played as a single leg.


1955 Cupa României, Format
If a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, the team who plays away will qualify.


1955 Cupa României, Format
In case the teams are from same city, there a replay will be played.


1955 Cupa României, Format
In case the teams play in the final, there a replay will be played.


1955 Cupa României, Format
From the first edition, the teams from Divizia A entered in competition in sixteen finals, rule which remained till today.


1955 Cupa României Final
The 1955 Cupa României Final was the 18th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between CCA București and Progresul Oradea, and was won by CCA București after a game with 9 goals, in extra time. It was the 5th cup for CCA București.


1955 Cupa României Final
Progresul Oradea was the forth club representing Divizia B which reached the Romanian Cup final, after CAM Timișoara in 1938, Flacăra Mediaş in 1951 and Metalul Reșița in 1954.


1955 Czechoslovak First League, Overview
It was contested by 12 teams, and Slovan Bratislava won the championship. Emil Pažický was the league's top scorer with nineteen goals.


1955 DDR-Oberliga
The 1955 DDR-Oberliga was the seventh season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany. After the 1954–55 season the league played a transition round in autumn 1955, followed by five seasons, until 1960, where it played in the calendar year format. From 1961–62 onwards the league returned to its traditional format.


1955 DDR-Oberliga
The league was contested by fourteen teams. SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt won in the unofficial championship.


1955 DDR-Oberliga
Klaus Selignow of Rotation Babelsberg was the league's top scorer with 12 goals.


1955 DDR-Oberliga, Overview
After the conclusion of the 1954–55 season, the Oberliga was supposed to be played exclusively in the summer months, as was the standard in the Soviet Union. As it was deemed impractical to not hold a competition for almost a year (the 1954-55 season had ended in April, the 1956 season was planned to begin in March) a transition championship was played. 14 clubs competed, but neither a champion was determined, nor was any club relegated.


1955 DDR-Oberliga, Table
The 1955 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Fortschritt Weißenfels and BSG Lokomotive Stendal.


1955 DFB-Pokal Final
The 1955 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 1954–55 DFB-Pokal, the 12th season of Germany's knockout football cup competition. It was played on 21 May 1955 at the Eintracht-Stadion in Braunschweig. Karlsruher SC won the match 3–2 against Schalke 04, to claim their 1st cup title.


1955 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final
The DFB-Pokal began with 32 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of four rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a replay would take place at the original away team's stadium. If still level after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a drawing of lots would decide who would advance to the next round.


1955 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


1955 Dartmouth Indians football team
The 1955 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1955 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bob Blackman, the Indians compiled a 3–6 record, and were outscored 120 to 92. Leo McKennawas the team captain.


1955 Dartmouth Indians football team
This would be Dartmouth's final year as a football independent, as the Ivy League, which Dartmouth had helped co-found in 1954, began football competition in 1956. Six of the nine opponents on the Indians' 1955 schedule were Ivy League members (with Penn the only Ivy not scheduled); for decades, (future) Ivy members had comprised a large portion of Dartmouth's opponents.


1955 Dartmouth Indians football team
Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.


1955 Davidson Wildcats football team
The 1955 Davidson Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented Davidson College in the 1955 college football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). Led by Bill Dole in his fourth season as head coach, the team compiled a record of 5–4 overall with a mark of 3–2 in SoCon play to tie for third place.


1955 Davis Cup
The 1955 Davis Cup was the 44th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 24 teams entered the Europe Zone, 7 teams entered the America Zone, and 3 teams entered the newly reinstated Eastern Zone. Burma competed for the first time.


1955 Davis Cup
Australia defeated Canada in the America Zone final, Italy defeated Sweden in the Europe Zone final, and Japan defeated the Philippines in the Eastern Zone final. In the Inter-Zonal Zone, Australia defeated Japan in the semifinal, and then defeated Italy in the final. In the Challenge Round Australia defeated the defending champions the United States. The final was played at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York, United States on 26–28 August.


1955 Davis Cup America Zone
The America Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1955 Davis Cup.


1955 Davis Cup America Zone
7 teams entered the America Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Eastern Zone and Europe Zone. Australia defeated Canada in the final and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.


1955 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
The Eastern Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1955 Davis Cup.


1955 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
3 teams entered the Eastern Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the America Zone and Europe Zone. Japan defeated the Philippines in the final and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.


1955 Davis Cup Europe Zone
The Europe Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1955 Davis Cup.


1955 Davis Cup Europe Zone
24 teams entered the Europe Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the America Zone and Eastern Zone. Italy defeated Sweden in the final and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.


1955 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 1955 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team was an American football team that represented the University of Delaware as an independent during the 1955 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach David M. Nelson, the team compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 261 to 82. Vincent Grande was the team captain. The team played its home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware.


1955 Delaware State Hornets football team
The 1955 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State College—now known as Delaware State University—as a member of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) in the 1955 college football season. Led by coach Edward Jackson in his seventh and final season, the Hornets compiled a 7–1 record for the second consecutive year, ranking 12th nationally. The team's only lost was by a field goal, against undefeated Maryland State. There were 3,500 fans in attendance, a record for Delaware State.


1955 Denver Pioneers football team
The 1955 Denver Pioneers football team represented the University of Denver in the Skyline Conference during the 1955 college football season. In their first season under head coach John Roning, the Pioneers compiled an 8–2 record (5–2 against Skyline opponents), tied for third in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 310 to 89.


1955 Detroit Lions season
The 1955 Detroit Lions season was their 26th in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 9–2–1, winning only three games. They missed the playoffs for the first time in four seasons.


1955 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1955 Detroit Tigers season
The 1955 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fifth in the American League with a record of 79–75, 17 games behind the New York Yankees.


1955 Detroit Tigers season
Al Kaline became the youngest major league player to win the American League (AL) batting title at 20 years old which still stands to this day. He hit .340 for the season, 21 points better than runner-up Vic Power.


1955 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1955 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1955 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1955 Detroit Titans football team
The 1955 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during 1955 college football season. In its second year under head coach Wally Fromhart, Detroit compiled a 5–3–1 record (3–1 against conference opponents), tied for the MVC championship, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 100 to 62.


1955 Detroit Titans football team
The team's staff included Kenneth Stilley (line coach, third year), Robert Dove (end coach, first year), John Ray (freshman coach, first year), and Dr. Raymond D. Forsyth (team physician). Tackle Richard Quadri and halfback Francis O'Connor were the team co-captains.


1955 Divizia A
The 1955 Divizia A was the thirty-eighth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania.


1955 Divizia A, Champion squad
Goalkeepers: Petre Curcan (4 / 0), Florea Birtașu (18 / 0 ), Nicolae Panaghia (3 / 0). Defenders: Gheorghe Băcuț (24 / 0), Ladislau Băcuț (24 / 0), Iosif Szökő (18 / 1). Midfielders: Valeriu Călinoiu (22 / 1), Gheorghe Toma (24 / 0), Alexandru Nemeş (4 / 0), Florian Anghel (6 / 0). Forwards: Carol Bartha (11 / 4); Onoriu Boian (8 / 1); Nicolae Dumitru (21 / 2); Alexandru Ene (23 / 14); Valeriu Neagu (23 / 10); Ion Suru (22 / 7); Nicolae Magheţ (11 / 2); Mihai Raica (1 / 0); Gheorghe Niţulescu (1 / 0). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)


1955 Divizia B
The 1955 Divizia B was the 16th season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system.


1955 Divizia B
The format has been maintained to three series, one of them having 14 teams and two of them only 13. At the end of the season the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A, the last four places from the first and third series and the last five places from the second series relegated to Divizia C. This was the sixth season played in the spring-autumn system, a system imposed by the new leadership of the country which were in close ties with the Soviet Union.


1955 Dominican Republic Constitutional Assembly election
Constitutional Assembly elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 13 November 1955. The role of the Assembly was to review and amend certain articles of the constitution.


1955 Drexel Dragons football team
The 1955 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1955 college football season. Eddie Allen was the team's head coach. The team became the first undefeated football team at the school that had a full schedule of collegiate opponents. Left guard Vince Vidas was awarded first string on the 1955 Little All-American team.


1955 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 1955 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the Duke University as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1955 college football season.


1955 Durham County Council election
Elections to Durham County Council were held on in April 1955. The Labour party maintained their dominance, although their presence was reduced from 77 to 74 of the councils 88 councillors. All 29 Alderman remained Labour. Of the 74 Labour councillors returned, 48 were returned unopposed.


1955 Durham County Council election, Aggregate results
This section summarises the detailed results which are noted in the following sections.


1955 Durham County Council election, Aggregate results
This table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 88 councillors were elected. Councillors are listed first, then aldermen, meaning that "74 + 29" means 74 Councillors and 29 Aldermen.


1955 Dutch Grand Prix
The 1955 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Zandvoort on June 19, 1955. It was race 5 of 7 in the 1955 World Championship of Drivers. The 100-lap race was won by Mercedes driver Juan Manuel Fangio after he started from pole position. His teammate Stirling Moss finished second and Maserati driver Luigi Musso came in third.


1955 Dutch Grand Prix, Race report
Despite a track made slippery by continuous drizzle, the record crowd was treated to some outstanding  driving as the masters slid their machines through the sand-dunes. Fangio and Moss again took up the lead with Musso's Maserati in pursuit. Kling and Behra were chasing furiously until the German spun into the sand and retired. Mieres then took up the challenge, passing Behra and closing the gap.


1955 Dutch Grand Prix, Race report
However, Musso was too far ahead and was even catching the Mercedes pair who were having to go at full pelt to keep ahead. It was only when he spun off and dropped back that they could relax slightly.


1955 Dutch Grand Prix, Race report
It was another impressive 1-2 for them, despite Moss sustaining a smoking engine late on in the race. Musso had given them a hard challenge and Fangio was the first to congratulate him on his podium finish.


1955 Dutch TT
The 1955 Dutch TT was the sixth round of the 1955 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 16 July 1955 at the Circuit van Drenthe, Assen.


1955 Dutch TT
A new 4.7 mile (7.7 km) circuit had been built at Assen for the Dutch TT; the public road version was no longer used after 1954. This track set the foundation for future Dutch TT's.


1955 East Carolina Pirates football team
The 1955 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented represented East Carolina College (now known as East Carolina University) as a member of the North State Conference during the 1955 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Jack Boone, the team compiled a 4–5 record.


1955 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
The 1955 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois State College—now known as Eastern Illinois University—as a member of the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1955 college football season. Led by Maynard O'Brien in his ninth and final year head coach, the Panthers compiled an overall record of 3–6 with a mark of 1–5 in conference play, placing sixth in the IIAC.


1955 Edinburgh North by-election
The 1955 Edinburgh North by-election was held on 27 January 1955. It was held because the Unionist MP, James Clyde, resigned when he was appointed Lord President of the Court of Session. It was held by the Unionist candidate, William Rankine Milligan. Milligan's vote share was slightly higher than Clyde had achieved at the previous general election, although the victorious candidate was disappointed at the low turnout which he said could not be entirely attributed to bad weather. The defeated Labour candidate, who was chairman of the Burntisland Labour Party, argued the result was not a vote of confidence in the government. Some of the 41 spoiled ballot papers were reported to have had slogans written on them by Scottish nationalists.


1955 Edmonton Eskimos season
The 1955 Edmonton Eskimos finished in 1st place in the Western Interprovincial Football Union with a 14–2 record and won the 43rd Grey Cup, repeating as Grey Cup champions.


1955 Edmonton municipal election
The 1955 municipal election was held October 19, 1955, to elect five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and six trustees to sit on the public school board, while the mayor and four trustees for the separate school board were acclaimed. The electorate also decided ten plebiscite questions.


1955 Edmonton municipal election
There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled:Edwin Clarke, Frederick John Mitchell, Ethel Wilson, Laurette Douglas, and Giffard Main (SS) were all elected to two-year terms in 1954 and were still in office.


1955 Edmonton municipal election
There were seven trustees on the public school board, but one of the positions were already filled, as Donald Bowen was elected to a two-year term in 1954 and was still in office. William Roberts and Rex Stevenson had also been elected to two-year terms in 1954, but had resigned; accordingly, John Thorogood (SS) and Herbert Turner were elected to one-year terms. On the separate board, there were four vacancies, as James O'Hara, Adrian Crowe (SS), and John Kane were continuing.


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout
There were 14,248 ballots cast out of 126,990 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 11.2%.


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Paving
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $320,000 for the City share of standard paving of arterial and residential streets?


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Asphalt Surfacing I
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $300,000 for the City share of asphalt surfacing on gravel for existing gravelled roads?


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Asphalt Surfacing II
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $400,000 for the City share of asphalt surfacing on gravel for new roads at various locations within the City?


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Bridge
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $2,000,000 for the construction of a bridge in concrete or steel or a combination of both, across the North Saskatchewan River at such location within the city as, in the opinion of Council, will most quickly and effectively improve the cross river traffic conditions, together with provision for approaches thereto including acquirements of all necessary lands?


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Zoo
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $400,000 for the establishment and development in Laurier Park of a Zoo including provisions for sewer, water, roads, buildings, structures, animals, and necessary equipment?


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Miscellaneous Neighbourhood Improvements
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $250,000 for the establishment and improvement of neighborhood parks, traffic circles, buffer zones, ravine side boulevards and works of a similar nature, including where necessary new roads, sewers, drains, fences, and general re-building?


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Library
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $75,000 for the establishment, improvement, extension of library facilities including construction of a new building?


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Health Clinic
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $60,000 for the purpose of a health clinic to look after inoculations, also the supervision of babies and pre-school children and preventative dental services?


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Royal Alexandra Hospital (New Building)
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $700,000 to complete and furnish a new building at the Royal Alexandra Hospital containing kitchen, dining and other facilities, also additional facilities for nurses living quarters and nurses study and recreation facilities?


1955 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Swimming Pool
Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $250,000 for the construction of an indoor swimming pool in the City south of the North Saskatchewan River at a location, which, in the opinion of Council, is most suitable and convenient for residents of Edmonton South?


1955 Egypt Cup Final
1955 Egypt Cup Final, was the final match of the 1954–55 Egypt Cup, was between Zamalek and Al Ittihad Alexandria, Zamalek won the match 2–1.


1955 Ekstraklasa, Overview
It was contested by 12 teams, and Legia Warsaw won the championship.


1955 Emperor's Cup, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and All Kwangaku won the championship.


1955 Emperor's Cup Final
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1955 Emperor's Cup Final
1955 Emperor's Cup Final was the 35th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at Nishinomiya Stadium in Hyōgo on May 4, 1955. All Kwangaku won the championship.


1955 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview
All Kwangaku won the championship, by defeating Chudai Club 4–3. All Kwangaku was featured a squad consisting of many international footballers, Tomohiko Ikoma, Ryuzo Hiraki, Hiroaki Sato, Shigeo Sugimoto, Takeshi Inoue, Masanori Tokita, Arawa Kimura and Takashi Tokuhiro.


1955 English Greyhound Derby
The 1955 Greyhound Derby took place during June with the final being held on 25 June 1955 at White City Stadium. The winner was Rushton Mac and the winning owners Frank Johnson and Mary Johnson received £1,500.


1955 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances
¾, 4½, 1, 1¾, 3 (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. From 1950 one length was equal to 0.08 of one second.


1955 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
The ante-post favourite was Hi There trained by Paddy McEvoy and a winner of the National Sprint in Ireland the previous year. Other leading contenders included defending champion Pauls Fun, Barrowside and the Frank Johnson litter brothers Rushton Mac and Rushton Spot. The Trafalgar Cup winner Golden Sail failed to gain selection in the 48 runner event resulting in his owner Mr Hughes quitting the sport.


1955 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
After the eight heats the fastest qualifier was Barrowside (28.82 sec). Pauls Fun and Hi There both underperformed but progressed. During the second round Hi There finished lame but would become a legendary stud dog. Pauls Fun now trained by Joe Booth also succumbed to injury being withdrawn from his heat. Duet Leader a fawn dog trained by Tom Reilly won easily and Barrowside remained unbeaten.


1955 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
The semi-finals produced another victory for Barrowside and the Grand National champion was installed as the hot favourite to win the final. The second semi-final was won by Rushton Mac following a tough battle with Laurels champion Coolkill Chieftain.


1955 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
Wembley trainer Jack Harvey had three of the finalists in his attempt to gain a second Derby title. Barrowside started at very short odds of 1-2 and made a good start followed by Home Straight and Rushton Mac. Rushton Mac moved towards the rails and took the lead on the back straight only for Barrowside to respond and take the lead by the fourth bend but Rushton Mac came again to win by three quarters. Coolkill Chieftain ran on well for third place.


1955 English cricket season
1955 was the 56th season of County Championship cricket in England and there was a continuation of Surrey's complete dominance as they won a fourth successive championship title and a second consecutive Minor Counties title. England defeated South Africa 3–2.


1955 English cricket season, Test series
England won a thrilling Test series against South Africa by 3–2. England won the first two matches and then South Africa equalised the series with wins in the 3rd and 4th matches. The fifth Test was therefore the decider and England, thanks to the spin bowling of Tony Lock and Jim Laker, won by 92 runs.


1955 English cricket season, Leading batsmen
Jackie McGlew topped the averages with 1871 runs @ 58.46.


1955 English cricket season, Leading bowlers
Bob Appleyard topped the averages with 85 wickets @ 13.01.


1955 Estonian SSR Football Championship
The 1955 Estonian SSR Football Championship was won by Tallinna Kalev.


1955 Estonian Supreme Soviet election
Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR were held on 27 February 1955. The Bloc of Communists and Non-Party Candidates was the only party able to contest the elections, and won all 125 seats.


1955 European Amateur Boxing Championships
The 1955 European Amateur Boxing Championships  were held in West Berlin, Germany, from May 27 to June 5. The 11th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 153 fighters from 24 countries participating (among them Turkey, Egypt and Saara).


1955 European Baseball Championship
The 1955 European Baseball Championship was held in Spain and was won by Spain. Belgium finished as runner-up.


1955 European Figure Skating Championships
The 1955 European Figure Skating Championships were held at the City Park Ice Rink in Budapest, Hungary from January 27 to 30. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1955 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The first European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships took place in 1955. In this championship, there was no team competition, only individual competitions. Only men took part, and the championship took place in Frankfurt am Main.


1955 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The Soviet Union dominated the championships, and took the top two places, with a total of five golds in the apparatus finals. Boris Shakhlin, who won a total of 14 World Championship medals and 13 Olympic medals in gymnastics, won the overall competition.


1955 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Results, Individual combined
Note: Free (FX), Pommel horse (PH), Rings (R), Vault (VT), Parallel bars (PB), High bar (HB), .


1955 European Rowing Championships (men)
The 1955 European Rowing Championships for men were rowing championships held in the Belgian city of Ghent. The venue was the Watersportbaan, which was built for these championships and was part of Belgium's preparation for their bid to host the 1960 Summer Olympics. The competition for women had been held earlier in the month in Bucharest. The event in Ghent was held from 25 to 28 August and they competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+). Some 400 competitors form 21 countries competed.


1955 European Rowing Championships (men), German participation
The National Olympic Committee of the GDR was granted provisional membership in 1955 and as a next step, East Germany tried to gain membership of the individual sporting organisations that participated in Olympic disciplines. In July 1955, the East German rowing association applied for a license from FISA, the International Rowing Federation, to be able to nominate their rowers at the European Championships in Bucharest (women) and Ghent (men). FISA's response was that the next congress, to be held just prior to the championships in Ghent, will decide on the matter. Therefore, East German teams could not compete in 1955. At the congress, East Germany was unanimously accepted as a new member.


1955 European Rowing Championships (men), German participation
West Germany was represented in Ghent in six boat classes.


1955 European Rowing Championships (women)
The 1955 European Rowing Championships for women were rowing championships held in the Romanian capital city of Bucharest from 4 to 7 August. The competition for men was held later in the month in Ghent. The women competed in five boat classes (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+).


1955 European Rowing Championships (women), German participation
The National Olympic Committee of the GDR was granted provisional membership in 1955 and as a next step, East Germany tried to gain membership of the individual sporting organisations that participated in Olympic disciplines. In July 1955, the East German rowing association applied for a license from FISA, the International Rowing Federation, to be able to nominate their rowers at the European Championships in Bucharest (women) and Ghent (men). FISA's response was that the next congress, to be held just prior to the championships in Ghent, will decide on the matter. Therefore, East German teams could not compete in 1955. At the congress, East Germany was unanimously accepted as a new member. The only West German competitor was Ingrid Scholz, who had won silver in single sculls in 1954; she came sixth in 1955.


1955 European Shooting Championships
The 1955 European Shooting Championships was the 1st edition of the global shooting competition, European Shooting Championships, organised by the International Shooting Sport Federation.


1955 FA Charity Shield
The 1955 FA Charity Shield was the 33rd FA Charity Shield, the annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Football League and FA Cup competitions. It was contested between Chelsea, the reigning First Division champions, and Newcastle United, holders of the FA Cup. Chelsea won 3–0, thanks to second-half goals from Roy Bentley and Frank Blunstone, and an own goal from Alf McMichael.


1955 FA Cup Final
The 1955 FA Cup Final was the 74th final of the FA Cup. It took place on 7 May 1955 at Wembley Stadium and was contested between Newcastle United and Manchester City.


1955 FA Cup Final
Newcastle won the match 3–1, thus winning the FA Cup for the third time in five years and the sixth time in all. Jackie Milburn scored Newcastle's first goal after 45 seconds (a record for a Wembley final that would stand until 1997), before Bobby Johnstone equalised for City just before half-time. Bobby Mitchell restored Newcastle's lead in the 52nd minute, and George Hannah extended it seven minutes later.


1955 FA Cup Final
The match was virtually decided in the 17th minute when City fullback Jimmy Meadows attempted a tackle on Mitchell, only to sustain a serious leg injury which forced him to be stretchered off five minutes later (and also forced him to retire from playing). As substitutes were not allowed in English football at the time, City had to play the rest of the match with ten players.


1955 FA Cup Final
As of 2021, this remains Newcastle's last FA Cup win and major domestic honour, though they have appeared in three finals since.


1955 FAMAS Awards
The 3rd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1955 at Fiesta Pavilion in Manila Hotel.


1955 FAMAS Awards
Salabusab, by Premiere Productions, Inc., is the recipient of this edition's FAMAS Award for Best Picture.


1955 FC Dinamo București season
The 1955 season was Dinamo București's seventh season in Divizia A. Dinamo bring the first Romanian title home, winning the championship by three points. During the season, Dinamo played 24 matches, winning 15, drawing 7 and losing only 2.


1955 FC Dinamo București season, Squad
Goalkeepers: Petre Curcan (4 / 0), Florea Birtașu (18 / 0 ), Nicolae Panaghia (3 / 0). Defenders: Gheorghe Băcuț (24 / 0), Ladislau Băcuț (24 / 0), Iosif Szökő (18 / 1). Midfielders: Valeriu Călinoiu (22 / 1), Gheorghe Toma (24 / 0), Alexandru Nemeş (4 / 0), Florian Anghel (6 / 0). Forwards: Carol Bartha (11 / 4); Onoriu Boian (8 / 1); Nicolae Dumitru (21 / 2); Alexandru Ene (23 / 14); Valeriu Neagu (23 / 10); Ion Suru (22 / 7); Nicolae Magheţ (11 / 2); Mihai Raica (1 / 0); Gheorghe Niţulescu (1 / 0). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)


1955 FC Dinamo București season, Squad, Transfers
Titus Ozon leaves Dinamo after five years in the red and white shirt, bound for Progresul București, newly promoted team. The main transfer made by Dinamo is the goalkeeper Petru Curcan from Stiinta Timişoara.


1955 FC Steaua București season
The 1955 season was FC Steaua București's 8th season since its founding in 1947.


1955 Finnish Cup
The 1955 Finnish Cup (Finnish: Suomen Cup) was the 1st season of the main annual association football cup competition in Finland. It was organised as a single-elimination knock–out tournament and participation in the competition was voluntary. The final was held at the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki on 20 November 1955 with Valkeakosken Haka defeating Helsingin Palloseura by 5-1 before an attendance of 3,021 spectators.


1955 Five Nations Championship
The 1955 Five Nations Championship was the twenty-sixth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the sixty-first series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 8 January and 26 March. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.


1955 Five Nations Championship
France missed out on a maiden Grand Slam after losing to Wales at Stade Colombes.


1955 Florida A&M Rattlers football team
The 1955 Florida A&M Rattlers football team was an American football team that represented Florida A&M University as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) during the 1955 college football season. In their 11th season under head coach Jake Gaither, the Rattlers compiled a 7–1–1 record, won the SIAC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 369 to 94. The team played its home games at Bragg Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida.


1955 Florida A&M Rattlers football team
The Rattlers' sole loss was to undefeated Grambling in the Orange Blossom Classic. Florida A&M had been favored prior to the game, but Grambling upset the Rattlers to win the black college football national championship. Florida A&M was ranked No. 3 in the final rankings of black college football times issued by the Pittsburgh Courier.


1955 Florida A&M Rattlers football team
The team's statistical leaders included Willie Galimore with 780 rushing yards, Lawrence Williams with 299 passing yards, and Al Frazier with 258 receiving yards and 78 points scored. Galimore later played seven years with the Chicago Bears and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.


1955 Florida Gators football team
The 1955 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the  1955 college football season. The season was Bob Woodruff's sixth as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. The Gators played their only eight-game Southeastern Conference schedule before the 1990s, and probably the most difficult of the 1950s. The standout Gator players included offensive and defensive tackle John Barrow, halfback and punter Don Chandler, two-way halfback Jackie Simpson and defensive back John Symank.


1955 Florida Gators football team
The highlights of the 1955 season included three conference victories over the Mississippi State Maroons (20–14), LSU Tigers (18–14) and Georgia Bulldogs (19–13). The Gators closed out the season with a knife's edge 7–6 road loss to the Miami Hurricanes in their home stadium in Miami, Florida. Woodruff's 1955 Florida Gators finished 4–6 overall and 3–5 in the SEC, placing tenth of twelve teams in the conference.


1955 Florida State Seminoles football team
The 1955 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University in the 1955 college football season.


1955 Florida's 6th congressional district special election
On January 11, 1955, voters in Florida's 6th congressional district elected Democrat Paul Rogers to the United States House of Representatives. His father, Dwight L. Rogers, was the incumbent and had just been re-elected to the term in November 1954, but died December 1, 1954.


1955 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR
The 1955 Football Championship of UkrSSR were part of the 1955 Soviet republican football competitions in the Soviet Ukraine.


1955 Ford
The 1955 Ford is an automobile which was produced by Ford in the United States for the 1955 model year and, in revised form, for the 1956 model year. A new design would be offered in 1957.


1955 Ford, 1955
The American Ford line of cars gained a new body for 1955 to keep up with surging Chevrolet and Plymouth, although it remained similar to the 1952 Ford underneath.


1955 Ford, 1955
The Mileage Maker I6 was bumped up to 223 CID (3.7 L) for 120 hp (89 kW) and the new-for-1954 Y-block V8 was now offered in two sizes:  Standard Fords used a 272 CID (4.5 L) version with 162 hp (121 kW) with 2-barrel carburetor and single exhaust or 182 hp with 4-barrel carburetor and dual exhaust, but the large 292 CID (4.8 L) unit from the Thunderbird was also offered, boasting 193 hp (144 kW).


1955 Ford, 1955
Apart from the engine changes, customers were sure to notice the new Fairlane, which replaced the Crestline as the top trim level, while a new Crown Victoria-style featured a chrome "basket handle" across the familiar (and continued) "Victoria" hardtop roof, which originally appeared on the Mercury XM-800 concept car. This use of a styling feature to visually separate the front of the passenger compartment from the rear reappeared on the 1977-1979 Ford Thunderbird, the Ford LTD Crown Victoria, the Ford Fairmont Futura and Mercury Zephyr Z-7 coupes.


1955 Ford, 1955
The company now marketed three different rooflines on its two-door models; the tall two-pillar Mainline, Customline, and Fairlane sedans, pillarless hardtop Fairlane Victoria and the chrome-pillar Fairlane Crown Victoria. The Fairlane Crown Victoria was also offered with a transparent "skylighted" top. New brakes were used 11-inch (280 mm) drums. Also, Fords had a new frame, but still with five cross members.


1955 Ford, 1955
The Fords introduced for 1955 also featured the panoramic windshields found on Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs the previous year. With this panoramic windshield the A-pillars have a vertical angle. this gives the driver more panoramic visibility.


1955 Ford, 1955
For the first time, Ford offered seat belts as a dealer option (not factory installed, with instructions provided by a Service Bulletin). Also new for 1955 was Ford's first factory installed air conditioner. This “Select Aire” option featured an integrated heater core and evaporator coil unit within the dash and cold air discharge vents located on top of the dash on either side of the radio speaker. The "Select Aire" design was carried over to the 1956 models with slightly different cold air vents in the same location as on the 1955 models. The condenser was mounted in front of the radiator as in later cars.


1955 Ford, 1955
The 1955 Fords were marketed under separate names for each of the three trim levels: Ford Mainline, Ford Customline and Ford Fairlane. Station wagons were offered as a separate series for the first time for 1955. The Ranch Wagon and Custom Ranch Wagon were 2 door wagons while the Country Sedan and Country Squire models were 4 door wagons, the latter featuring wooden appliqué side mouldings. A sedan delivery variant was marketed as the Ford Courier.


1955 Ford, 1956
The eggcrate grille featured on the 1955 cars was widened into a series of rectangles for 1956, but this subtle exterior change was nothing compared to Ford's adoption of a 12-volt electrical system, with a six volt system optional. The Crown Victoria Skyliner's sales were plummeting with just 603 made, and it would be replaced by a convertible the next year. A new addition at midyear was the "Town Victoria" 4-door hardtop model which, along with the new Customline Victoria 2-door hardtop, were meant to compete with the Chevrolet Bel Air and Plymouth Belvedere. The Parklane, a Fairlane trimmed Tudor station wagon, was added to compete with the Chevrolet Nomad. There were new convenience options, such as a new air-conditioner system, a new heater, and a nine-tube signal-seeking radio. Instead of gauges, instrument cluster warning lights for oil pressure and ammeter were standard.


1955 Ford, 1956
Victoria hardtop coupes now adopted the lower, sleeker roofline used by both 1955 and 1956 Crown Victoria,  sans the wide chrome roof trim.


1955 Ford, 1956
The Lifeguard safety package — consisting of seat belts, a padded dashboard, safety door locks,  a deep-dish steering wheel, and a breakaway rearview mirror — was introduced. The option was a slow-seller. The optional air conditioner, which remained expensive and thus a slow seller, was totally revamped; the compressor was now housed beneath the hood and the cooling vents were moved to atop the dashboard (it could not be ordered on the Thunderbird).


1955 Ford, Australian production
The 1955 Ford was also produced by Ford Australia which offered it as a V8 Customline 4-door sedan and as a V8 Mainline 2-door coupe utility. The latter body style was developed in Australia utilising an imported convertible chassis strengthened for load carrying. A limited number of Customline wagons was also built.


1955 Ford, Australian production
The 1955 model was the first Australian Ford to receive the new overhead-valve "Y-block" V8 engine, and went on sale at the end of July 1955. Australian Customlines and Mainlines received the 1956 US Ford facelift and then further makeovers in 1957 and 1958 with the final series utilizing the grille from 1955 Meteor of Canada. The 1957s, introduced in September 1957, were also available with the Fordomatic automatic transmission, and local parts content had been increased to 80 percent.


1955 Ford, Australian production
By 1958 the Customline was being marketed as the Ford V8 Fordomatic when supplied with automatic transmission. 1958 was also when the larger, 292 cu in (4.79 L) V8 engine was introduced. Australian production ended the following year with the introduction of the 1959 US Ford which was locally produced in Custom 300, Fairlane 500 and Ranch Wagon models.


1955 Formula One season
The 1955 Formula One season was the ninth season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1955 World Championship of Drivers, which commenced on 16 January 1955 and ended on September 11 after seven races. Juan Manuel Fangio won his second consecutive World Championship title in a season that was curtailed by tragedies.


1955 Formula One season
The season also included a number of non-championship Formula One races.


1955 Formula One season, Season summary
Mercedes drivers again dominated the championship, with Fangio taking four races, and his new teammate Stirling Moss the British Grand Prix. Ferrari won at Monaco after all of the Mercedes cars broke down and Lancia driver Alberto Ascari crashed into the harbour. Although Ascari was apparently unscathed, the double World Champion crashed fatally at Monza while testing sportscars four days later.


1955 Formula One season, Season summary
The disaster at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on 11 June which killed Pierre Levegh and over 80 spectators led to the cancellations of the French, German, Spanish and Swiss Grands Prix. The French round, which was supposed to be held at Reims between the Dutch and British rounds, on 3 July, was first rescheduled to 25 September and subsequently cancelled. Then the German event, scheduled for 31 July at the Nürburgring, the Swiss round at Bremgarten, planned to take place on 21 August, and the Spanish round, on 23 October at Pedralbes, followed suit.


1955 Formula One season, Season summary
Pedralbes and Bremgarten were then abandoned and never used again for racing; motor racing was banned altogether in Switzerland and no circuit race was held in Switzerland until the 2018 Zürich ePrix. These cancellations effectively handed the Drivers' title to Fangio after he finished 2nd to Moss at the British Grand Prix; although he wasn't actually crowned champion until well after the British Grand Prix, because the German, Swiss and Spanish rounds were cancelled after the British Grand Prix took place.


1955 Formula One season, Season summary
The 1955 season would be the final for Mercedes Benz as a constructor until the team's revival in 2010. It would also mark the final win for Mercedes until the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix.


1955 Formula One season, Season summary
Aside from Ascari's death this year, Italian Mario Alborghetti died at the non-championship Pau Grand Prix in France driving a Maserati; and during the Indianapolis 500, two drivers were killed during the month-long event: Americans Manny Ayulo in practice and previous race winner Bill Vukovich during the race two weeks later.


1955 Formula One season, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers competed in the 1955 FIA World Championship.


1955 Formula One season, World Championship of Drivers standings
Championship points were awarded on an 8–6–4–3–2 basis for the first five places at each race. One point was awarded for fastest race lap at each race. Only the best five results counted towards the championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.


1955 Formula One season, Non-championship races
Other Formula One races also held in 1955, which did not count towards the World Championship.


1955 French Championships (tennis)
The 1955 French Championships (now known as the French Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 24 May until 4 June. It was the 59th staging of the French Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1955. Tony Trabert and Angela Mortimer won the singles titles.


1955 French Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles
Vic Seixas /  Tony Trabert  defeated  Nicola Pietrangeli /  Orlando Sirola  6–1, 4–6, 6–2, 6–4


1955 French Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles
Beverly Baker Fleitz /  Darlene Hard defeated  Shirley Bloomer /  Patricia Ward 7–5, 6–8, 13–11


1955 French Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles
Darlene Hard /  Gordon Forbes defeated  Jenny Staley /  Luis Ayala  5–7, 6–1, 6–2


1955 French Championships – Men's Singles
First-seeded Tony Trabert defeated Sven Davidson 2–6, 6–1, 6–4, 6–2 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1955 French Championships.


1955 French Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Tony Trabert is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.