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1942 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams 8 Finals Site Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri Champions Stanford (1st title) Runner-Up Dartmouth (1st title game) Semifinalists Colorado (1st Final Four) Kentucky (1st Final Four) Winning Coach Everett Dean (1st title) MOP Howie Dallmar Stanford Attendance 24,373 Top scorers Chet Palmer Rice Jim Pollard Stanford (43 points) |
The 1942 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in
single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division
I college basketball. It began on March 20, 1942, and ended with the championship
game on March 28 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 9 games were played,
including a third place game in each region. Stanford, coached by Everett Dean, won the national title with a 53-38 victory in the final game over Dartmouth, coached by O. B. Cowles. Howie Dallmar of Stanford was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Everett Dean remains, to this day, the only coach to have never lost an NCAA tournament game, going 3-0 in his lone appearance. |
From 1972 to 1981, the official nickname was the Cardinals. Despite the plural form
of the name, the name was intended to refer to the color, not the bird. During
the 1970s, a number of suggestions were put forth as possible nicknames: Robber
Barons (a sly reference to Leland Stanford's history), Sequoias, Trees, Railroaders,
Spikes, Huns, Steaming Manhole Covers, and Griffins. The last suggestion
gained enough momentum to prompt the university to move two griffin statues
to be near the athletic facilities. |
Following its win over Cal in the first-ever Big Game in 1892, the color cardinal
was picked as the primary color of Stanford's athletic teams. White was adopted
as a secondary color in the 1940s. In 1930, the athletic department adopted the mascot "Indians." The Indian symbol and name were later dropped by President Richard Lyman in 1972, after objections from Native American students and a vote by the student senate. |
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On November 17, 1981, school President Donald Kennedy declared that the athletic
teams be represented by the color Cardinal in its singular form.[1] Stanford has no official mascot, but the Stanford Tree, a member of the Stanford Band wearing a self-designed tree costume, appears at major Stanford sports events. The Tree is based upon El Palo Alto, a redwood tree in neighboring Palo Alto that appears in the Stanford seal and athletics logo. The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the athletic teams at Stanford University. |
