Events Clara Gregory Baer introduces (as it was written at the time) to Sophie Newcomb College (now part of Tulane University) February 7 – Vanderbilt University plays against the local YMCA in Nashville, Tennessee – the first recorded instance of a college basketball team facing an outside opponent. April 8 – In the second recorded instance of an organized college basketball game, Geneva College faces the New Brighton YMCA in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
Births Birch Bayh (basketball coach), coach Benjamin Van Alstyne, coach William Reid (basketball), coach Clarence Applegran, coach Wilmer D. Elfrink, coach and player Norman C. Paine, coach
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