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The History Of College Basketball Tickets
By Al Terry
The Canadian, Dr. James Naismith, a physical education instructor, while at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, invented the of basketball, in 1891. The following year, in 1892, he put together the rules of the game, and the first of college basketball involved 18 players from YMCA, Springfield, who split into two teams of nine each. This was in 1893.
The first recorded instance when a basketball involved at least one college team was between Geneva College and New Brighton, YMCA, on April 8, 1893, in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, which Geneva College won. Geneva College calls itself ‘The Birthplace of College Basketball.’
It was on February 9, 1895, that two basketball teams from two different colleges - Minnesota State School of Agriculture, and the Porkers of Hamline College - played the first college basketball game. Minnesota won 9-3. Naismith’s original ‘peach basket’ rules were in force, and had nine players to each side.
The Modern College Basketball Games
The very first five to a side college basketball was between the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa, played in Iowa City, Iowa on January 18, 1896. Chicago won 15-12. The first inter-collegiate basketball was between Wesleyan University and Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, which Wesleyan won 4-3.
By the 1900s, many colleges all over the United States were fielding basketball teams. By 1906, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was formed in Chicago, and the first tournament of the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Championship was held in 1939 at Evanston, Illinois in front of an audience of 5,500 fans. Oregon took the first National Championship by beating Ohio State – 46 to 33. That was the only time Oregon has ever reached the finals of this tournament.
In 1940, the first televised college basketball games were played at the Madison Square Garden. Since then, there has been no end to the popularity of
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