In total, 9 teams and 43 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 sixth consecutive time.
This was the first championship since 1942 after the 1943 race was cancelled due to World War II.
The team national championship was won by the Drake Bulldogs, their first.
The individual champion was Fred Feiler, also from Drake, with a time of 21:04.2.