1893 in basketball
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The following are the basketball events of the year 1893 throughout the world.
Events
- Clara Gregory Baer introduces basket-ball (as it was written at the time) to Sophie Newcomb College (now part of Tulane University)[1]
- February 7 â Vanderbilt University plays against the local YMCA in Nashville, Tennessee â the first recorded instance of a college basketball team facing an outside opponent.[2]
- April 8 â In the second recorded instance of an organized college basketball game, Geneva College faces the New Brighton YMCA in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.[2]
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
