1896 Chicago vs. Iowa men's basketball game

August 2023 1896 Chicago vs. Iowa game First modern college basketball game Chicago Maroons 15 5–2 Horace Butterworth 15 Iowa Hawkeyes 12 2–5 None 12 January 18, 1896 Close HallHawkeye Legends, Lists, & Lore by Mike Finn, Chad Leistikow, Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, IL, 1998, p. 3 Iowa City ~500 The 1896 Chicago vs. Iowa men's basketball game was the first five-on-five college basketball game played in United States history.The Game That Developed Big Ten Men's Basketball History Big Ten Conference http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/big10-hoops-history.html May 1, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20110925170016/http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/big10-hoops-history.html 2011-09-25 dead Although the sport had been first played in 1892, seven to nine players had been used on a side. At the urging of the University of Chicago's head football coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Chicago's men's club team traveled to Iowa City, Iowa, to play the University of Iowa on January 18, 1896, in an experimental game.James Naismith Robinson Library February 18, 2014 http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/geography/recreation/sports/basketball/biography/naismith.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20110517042043/http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/geography/recreation/sports/basketball/biography/naismith.htm dead May 17, 2011 May 1, 2014 The match was played in Close Hall, and due to seating capacity constraints, only approximately 500 people were able to watch. Iowa physical education teacher Dr. Henry F. Kallenberg reduced the teams to five players on a side, and the modern version of basketball was born. Kallenberg came to Iowa from Springfield College, where he was a classmate of Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.Hawkeye Legends, Lists, & Lore by Mike Finn, Chad Leistikow, Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, IL, 1998, p. 2 Chicago won, 15–12, to secure modern college basketball's first-ever win. References Category:College basketball games in the United States Category:Men's basketball games in the United States Category:1895–96 in American college basketball Category:Chicago Maroons men's basketball Category:Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball Basket Category:1896 in basketball Category:January 1896 in the United States