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1914–15 NCAA Men's Basketball Season
The 1914–15 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1914, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1915. Season headlines * The Southwest Conference began play, with five original members. * In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Illinois as its national champion for the 1914–15 season. * In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll The Premo-Porretta Power Poll is a retroactive end-of-year ranking for American college basketball teams competing in the 1895–96 through the 1947–48 seasons. The Premo-Porretta Polls are intended to serve collectively as a source of informa ... retroactively selected Illinois as its national champion for the 1914–15 season. Conference membership changes Regular season Conference winners Statistical leaders Awards Helms College Basketball All-Americans The practice of selecting a Consensus All-American Team did not begin until the 1928–29 season. The Helm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914–15 Illinois Fighting Illini Men's Basketball Team
The 1914–15 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois. Regular season Coached by Ralph Jones, the 1914–15 Fighting Illini men's basketball team became the first undefeated Big Ten champion in the history of the school as well as the fourth Big Ten National Champion. That 1915 season was the third in the eight-year tenure of head coach Ralph Jones and it produced the only unbeaten season in Illini history and the first Big Ten title for the Illinois basketball program. The Illinois team was retroactively named national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Jones’ 1915 team scored twice as many points as its opponents and won the conference title by three games over Chicago. The arrival of the Woods brothers in 1914 had a lot to do with the success of this era. Guard Ray Woods was named first-team All-America all three years he competed (1915–17), and twin brother Ralf, a forward, led the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Lee (basketball)
Charles Lee may refer to: Politics *Charles Lee (Attorney General) (1758–1815), lawyer and United States Attorney General * Charles Lee (Australian politician) (1842–1926), Minister for Justice, 1898–1899, and Secretary for Public Works, 1899 *Charles Lee (Hong Kong politician) (born 1936), former chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited *Charles Lee (activist) (active in 1987), American environmental justice activist Sports *Charlie Lee (Australian footballer) (1896–1979), Australian rules footballer *Charles Lee (cricketer) (1924–1999), English first-class cricketer *Charles A. Lee (born 1977), American sprinting athlete *Charles Lee (American football) (born 1977), former American football wide receiver *Charles Lee (basketball) (born 1984), American basketball player * Charlie Lee (English footballer) (born 1987), English football player *Charlie Lee (squash player) (born 1998), English squash player *Charlie Lee (football coach) (born 1945), American fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornell Big Red Men's Basketball
The Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represents Cornell University (one of eight members of the Ivy League), located in Ithaca, New York, in NCAA Division I men's competition. The Big Red's appearance in the 2008 NCAA Tournament was their first trip to "The Big Dance" since 1988, ending a 20 year absence from the tournament. The team has reached the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament five times, in 1954, 1988, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Cornell’s best finish in the NCAA tournament occurred in 1954 and 2010 when they advanced to the Sweet 16. Brian Earl is the current head coach. History Cornell played its first basketball game on December 13, 1898, a 48–12 victory over the Waverly YMCA. The team would finish the short season with a record of 1–3. The program did not record a winning season until 1908–1909 when the team went 13–10. Beginning with the 1901–1902 season and ending with the 1954–1955 season Cornell competed in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Brown (basketball)
Leslie Brown may refer to: * Leslie Brown (RAF officer) (1893–1978), Royal Air Force officer who served in World War II * Leslie Brown (historian) (1954–2016), American historian * Leslie E. Brown (1920–1997), U.S. Marine aviator * Leslie Brown (bishop) (1912–1999), Archbishop of Uganda * Leslie C. Brown (born 1945), former member of the Ohio House of Representatives * Leslie Brown (bowls), Fijian bowls player, medallist at 1950 British Empire Games * Leslie Brown (English footballer) (1936–2021), English football midfielder * Leslie Hilton Brown (1917–1980), British ornithologist * Darby Brown (1929–1988, born Leslie Brown), Australian boxer of the 1940s and 1950s * Leslie Brown (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer of the 1950s See also * * Leslie Browne Leslie Browne (born June 29, 1957) is an American prima ballerina and actress. She was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York City from 1986 until 1993. She was also nominate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928–29 NCAA Men's Basketball Season
The 1928–29 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1928, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded in March 1929. Rule changes The charging foul by the player dribbling the ball was introduced. Season headlines * The Big Six Conference and Missouri Valley Conference began play. Both had formed when the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) split into the two new conferences in May 1928, with the Big Six Conference officially retaining the MVIAA's name and the Missouri Valley Conference retaining its staff. Both claimed the MVIAA's founding date (1907) and its history from 1907 to 1928 as their own, and both claimed to be a continuation of the original conference. * The practice of naming an annual Consensus All-American Team began. * In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Montana State as its national champion for the 1928–29 season. * In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1896, it predates the founding of its regulating organization, the NCAA. It is based in the Chicago area in Rosemont, Illinois. For many decades the conference consisted of 10 universities, and it has 14 members and 2 affiliate institutions. The conference competes in the NCAA Division I and its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport. Big Ten member institutions are major research universities with large financial endowments and strong academic reputations. Large student enrollment is a hallmark of its universities, as 12 of the 14 members enroll more than 30,000 students. They are largely state public universities; found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denver Pioneers Men's Basketball
The Denver Pioneers men's basketball team represents the University of Denver and competes in the NCAA Division I men's college basketball in Denver, Colorado. They are led by head coach Jeff Wulbrun and are members of the Summit League. They play their home games at Magness Arena. The Pioneers are one of 35 eligible Division I programs to have never appeared in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. History Denver began intercollegiate basketball in 1904 and played at the regional level prior to World War II. After the war, DU became an NCAA Division I level program between the 1950s and 1979, playing in the Mountain States and old Skyline conferences before becoming an NCAA Division I independent in 1962. In 1979, DU's declining finances forced the program to drop down to the Division II and NAIA levels until 1998. DU moved back up to Division I status in 1998 and joined the Sun Belt Conference in 1999. In 2012, the Pioneers moved from the Sun Belt to the West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), commonly known as the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) from approximately 1910 through the late 1960s, is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, which operates in the western United States. Most member schools are in Colorado, with additional members in Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah. History Founded in 1909, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is the fifth oldest active college athletic conference in the United States, the oldest in NCAA Division II, and the sixth to be founded after the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Big Ten Conference, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Ohio Athletic Conference, and the Missouri Valley Conference. For its first 30 years, the RMAC was considered a major conference, equivalent to today's NCAA Division I, before seven of its larger members left in 1938 to form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914–15 Kansas Jayhawks Men's Basketball Team
The 1914–15 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas during the 1914–15 college men's basketball season, their 16 season. The Jayhawks, members of the MVIAA, who coached by sixth-year coach W.O. Hamilton. The Jayhawks finished the season 16–1 and won the MVIAA Championship, their 7th conference championship. On January 13, 1915, the Jayhawks defeated Warrensburg (now known as Central Missouri) who were coached by former Jayhawk basketball player and future long-time Kansas head coach Phog Allen, in what was the second of two games Allen coached against his alma mater. Ralph Sproull was retroactively named an All-American by the Helms Foundation, making him the second Jayhawk to earn the honor. Roster *Hilmar Appel *Lawrence Cole *Ray Dunmire *Ray Folks *Karl Kaiser *Ephraim Sorensen *Ralph Sproull *Arthur Weaver [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
