1893 in basketball

none 1893 Events Clara Gregory Baer introduces basket-ball (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. Traughber Bill VU first college to play basketball vucommodores.com March 12, 2008 http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/031208aaa.html June 6, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140606213554/http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/031208aaa.html June 6, 2014 dead 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 References Historical Timeline 1891-1962 http://www.wbhof.com/Timeline.html Women's Basketball Hall of Fame 11 Oct 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20090621024009/http://www.wbhof.com/timeline.html 2009-06-21 dead