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I have a few old publications...and thought I'd post a few facts about college basketball in 1915...FWIW --along the line of trivia
The NCAA was in its infancy in 1915 -- and started as the organization in 1906, and they unified and standardized the rules in 1909...
The Big Ten Conference was founded in 1896, and included many of the schools that it includes presently (Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, and Wisconsin) and also included Univ. of Chicago.
Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio State all also joined before 1915, but it was still called (in basketball) The Western Intercollegiate Basket Ball Association.
(Conference)
..however it was also commonly called the "Big Ten" as an unofficial name which later became the official name.
But here is an amazing stat for the 1915 season (games started in January and ended in March so it's the equivalent of the 1914-1915 season)...
The Conference's leading scorer was George Levis of Wisconsin who totalled 162 points in 10 1/2 games...48 FG and 44 FT
Nobody else in the Big Ten even scored half that many points, but Purdue had two fine scorers..
Henry Brockenbrough, who made 33 FG for 66 points on the season and Ward Berry who scored a season total of 62 points in 12 games sinking 56 FT while making only 3 FG! (Purdue went 4-8 and finished 6th as Illinois finished 12-0!)
Guards generally weren't shooters but got points on FT while forwards and centers were the shooters.
The NCAA was in its infancy in 1915 -- and started as the organization in 1906, and they unified and standardized the rules in 1909...
The Big Ten Conference was founded in 1896, and included many of the schools that it includes presently (Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, and Wisconsin) and also included Univ. of Chicago.
Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio State all also joined before 1915, but it was still called (in basketball) The Western Intercollegiate Basket Ball Association.
(Conference)
..however it was also commonly called the "Big Ten" as an unofficial name which later became the official name.
But here is an amazing stat for the 1915 season (games started in January and ended in March so it's the equivalent of the 1914-1915 season)...
The Conference's leading scorer was George Levis of Wisconsin who totalled 162 points in 10 1/2 games...48 FG and 44 FT
Nobody else in the Big Ten even scored half that many points, but Purdue had two fine scorers..
Henry Brockenbrough, who made 33 FG for 66 points on the season and Ward Berry who scored a season total of 62 points in 12 games sinking 56 FT while making only 3 FG! (Purdue went 4-8 and finished 6th as Illinois finished 12-0!)
Guards generally weren't shooters but got points on FT while forwards and centers were the shooters.
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