In total, 16 teams and 63 individual runners contested this championship.
[1] The meet was hosted by Michigan State College at the Forest Akers East Golf Course in East Lansing, Michigan for the fifth consecutive time.
The following year in 1943 the race was cancelled due to World War II.
The team national championship was won by both Indiana and Penn State (the third for the Hoosiers and the first for the Nittany Lions) in a tie.
The individual champion was Oliver Hunter, from Notre Dame, with a time of 20:18.0.