The 1951 NCAA Cross Country Championships were the 13th 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, 23 teams and 122 individual runners contested this championship.
[1] The meet was hosted by Michigan State College on November 26, 1951, at the Forest Akers East Golf Course in East Lansing, Michigan.
The team national championship was won by the Syracuse Orangemen, their first.
The individual championship was retained by Herb Semper, from Kansas, with a time of 20:09.74.