The 1948 NCAA Cross Country Championships were the tenth annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States.
In total, 18 teams and 131 individual runners contested this championship.
[1] The meet was hosted by Michigan State College on November 22, 1948, at the Forest Akers East Golf Course in East Lansing, Michigan.
The team national championship was won by the host Michigan State Spartans, their second overall.
The individual championship was won by Robert Black, from Rhode Island State, with a time of 19:52.84, a new distance record.