1917–18 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team

1917–18 NCAA men's basketball independents standings
	Rankings from AP Poll

1917–18 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
1917–18 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
Conference	Independent
1917–18 record	8–6
Head coach	John O'Reilly (4th season);
Captain	Bob O'Lone (2nd year)
Home arena
	Seasons ← 1916–17 1918–19 →

The 1917–1918 team photo.

The 1917–18 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1917–18 NCAA college basketball season. coached the team in his fourth season as head coach.^[1] Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.,^[2] and finished the season with a record of 8-6.

Season recap[]

Forward Bill Dudack, seen in 1920, was a freshman in 1917-18. After graduating in 1921, he returned to Georgetown to coach the 1929–30 team.

Although the Hoyas struggled on the road this year, their home winning streak at Ryan Gymnasium reached eight games at the end of the season, dating back to a victory against Bucknell on the last day of the previous season; it would reach 52 before finally coming to an end during the 1923-24 season.^[3]^[4]^[5] Georgetown also defeated crosstown rival George Washington twice this season, giving the Hoyas an eight-game winning streak against George Washington – seven of the wins at Ryan Gymnasium – dating back to 1915.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Forward Fred Fees, a Georgetown University Law School student, was in his second season with the Hoyas. A free-throw shooting specialist in an era when the rules of college basketball allowed teams to choose which player shot its free throws, Fees exploited his free-throw prowess to establish himself as one of the top scorers in college basketball in the United States in each of his seasons with the Hoyas. This season he played in 11 games and scored 201 points, the most by any college player in the country, and his 18.3 points per game set a Georgetown single-season record that would stand until the 1958-59 season. In the game at Navy on January 23, 1918, he scored 15 of the Hoyas's 17 points.^[6]^[7]

Roster[]

Sources^[6]^[8]^[9]

Georgetown players did not wear numbers on their jerseys this season. The first numbered jerseys in Georgetown men's basketball history would not appear until the 1933-34 season.^[10]

Freshman forward Bill Dudack later served as the Hoyas' head coach during the 1929-30 season.^[1] Sophomore guard Alexander "Pat" Finnegan left school after the season for United States Army service in World War I and while in military service died of influenza — the so-called "Spanish flu" — during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic.^[11]^[12]

Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Position	Class	Hometown	Previous Team(s)
James Coughlin	N/A	N/A	G	N/A	N/A	N/A
Hubert Derivaux	N/A	N/A	F	So.	N/A	N/A
Bill Dudack	N/A	N/A	F	Jr.	New Britain, CT, U.S.	New Britain HS
Fred Fees	5'6"	N/A	F	Grad. Stud.	Carrolltown, PA, U.S.	St. Francis College (Pa.)
Alexander "Pat" Finnegan	N/A	N/A	G	So.	N/A	N/A
Don Keresey	N/A	N/A	G	N/A	N/A	N/A
Joseph Longshak	N/A	N/A	G	So.	N/A	N/A
Jack McNulty	N/A	N/A	F	So.	N/A	N/A
Jim McNulty	N/A	N/A	C	Sr.	N/A	N/A
Charles Monaghan	N/A	N/A	F	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bob O'Lone	N/A	N/A	F	Sr.	N/A	N/A

1917–18 schedule and results[]

Sources^[5]^[13]^[14]^[15]

It was common practice at this time for colleges and universities to include non-collegiate opponents in their schedules, with the games recognized as part of their official record for the season, so the games against a United States Army team from Camp Meade, Maryland, a team, and the Georgetown University Medical School counted as part of Georgetown's won-loss record for 1917–18. It was not until 1952, after the completion of the 1951–52 season, that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ruled that colleges and universities could no longer count games played against non-collegiate opponents in their annual won-loss records.^[16]

Trinity College of North Carolina was the future Duke University.

Date time, TV	Opponent	Result	Record	Site city, state
Regular Season
Fri., Dec. 7, 1917 no, no	Mount St. Joseph	W 44–10	1-0	Washington, DC
Wed., Dec. 12, 1917 no, no	at Loyola Maryland	cancelled		N/A Baltimore, MD
Wed., Dec. 12, 1917 no, no	Georgetown University Medical	W 46–9	2-0	Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
Sat., Jan. 12, 1918 no, no	at Loyola Maryland	cancelled		N/A Baltimore, MD
Wed., Jan. 16, 1918 no, no	Lehigh	W 37–26	3-0	Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
Fri., Jan. 18, 1918 no, no	Randolph–Macon	W 34–11	4-0	Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
Wed., Jan. 23, 1918 no, no	at Navy	L 17–49	4-1	Dahlgren Hall Annapolis, MD
Sat., Jan. 26, 1918 no, no	at George Washington	W 36–8	5-1	Washington, DC
Mon., Jan. 28, 1918 no, no	at Mount St. Joseph	L 31–34	5-2	Baltimore, MD
Fri., Feb. 1, 1918 no, no	George Washington	W 53–18	6-2	Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
Mon., Feb. 4, 1918 no, no	West Virginia Wesleyan	cancelled		Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
Thu., Feb. 7, 1918 no, no	at	L N/A^{[note 1]}	6-3	N/A Allentown, PA
Fri., Feb. 8, 1918 no, no	at Lafayette	L 26–36	6-4	N/A Easton, PA
Sat., Feb. 9, 1918 no, no	at Lehigh	L 26–28	6-5	Taylor Gymnasium Bethlehem, PA
Sun., Feb. 10, 1918 no, no	at Camp Meade	L 25–33	6-6	Fort George G. Meade, MD
Tue., Feb. 12, 1918 no, no	Virginia Tech	cancelled		Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
Fri., Feb. 15, 1918 no, no	Trinity (N.C.)	cancelled		Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
Fri., Feb. 15, 1918 no, no	Gallaudet	W 56–25	7-6	Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
Sat., Feb. 23, 1918 no, no	Lafayette	W 43–29	8-6	Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
Tue., Feb. 26, 1918 no, no	Bucknell	cancelled		Ryan Gymnasium Washington, DC
*Non-conference game. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

Notes[]

^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1910s Records and The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Records vs. Non-Collegiate Opponents Archived 2017-02-12 at the Wayback Machine both list the score of this loss to the United States Army Amphibious Corps as "37-32." The project uses the convention of placing the Georgetown score first for both wins and losses, so this is a typographical error. It is possible that the scores are reversed, and that the Army Amphibious Corps won by a score of 37-32, but that is only one possibility for the actual final score. It is clear that Georgetown lost this game, as this is consistent with the school's final 8-6 record for the season, upon which all sources used for this article agree.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Head Coaches". Archived from the original on 2017-05-27. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Ryan Gymnasium Years". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1910s Seasons
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1920s Seasons
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Best of His Era". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 22. Fred Fees^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1910–11 to 1919–1920". Archived from the original on 2013-01-09. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
^ Georgetown Basketball History Project: All-Time Player Directory^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1930–31 to 1939–1940". Archived from the original on 2017-02-12. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Wartime
^ hoyasaxa.com Basketball In a Pandemic: The 1918-19 Georgetown Varsity Accessed March 1, 2021
^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Records vs. All Opponents
^ sports-reference.com 1918-19 Georgetown Hoyas Schedule and Results
^ 2012-2013 Georgetown Men's Basketball Media Guide, p. 58.
^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Non-Collegiate Opponents". Archived from the original on 2017-02-12. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

[score-17] The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1910s Records and The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Records vs. Non-Collegiate Opponents Archived 2017-02-12 at the Wayback Machine both list the score of this loss to the United States Army Amphibious Corps as "37-32." The project uses the convention of placing the Georgetown score first for both wins and losses, so this is a typographical error. It is possible that the scores are reversed, and that the Army Amphibious Corps won by a score of 37-32, but that is only one possibility for the actual final score. It is clear that Georgetown lost this game, as this is consistent with the school's final 8-6 record for the season, upon which all sources used for this article agree.

[coach-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Head Coaches". Archived from the original on 2017-05-27. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

[homecourt-2] The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts

[ryan-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Ryan Gymnasium Years". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

[1910s-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1910s Seasons

[schedule-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1920s Seasons

[best-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Best of His Era". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

[7] The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 22. Fred Fees^{[permanent dead link]}

[roster-10s-8] "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1910–11 to 1919–1920". Archived from the original on 2013-01-09. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

[9] Georgetown Basketball History Project: All-Time Player Directory^{[permanent dead link]}

[roster-30s-10] "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1930–31 to 1939–1940". Archived from the original on 2017-02-12. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

[11] The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Wartime

[12] yasaxa.com Basketball In a Pandemic: The 1918-19 Georgetown Varsity Accessed March 1, 2021

[13] The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Records vs. All Opponents

[14] sports-reference.com 1918-19 Georgetown Hoyas Schedule and Results

[15] 2012-2013 Georgetown Men's Basketball Media Guide, p. 58.

[16] "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Non-Collegiate Opponents". Archived from the original on 2017-02-12. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

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People	Head coaches NBA draftees Statistical leaders
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NCAA national championships in bold; NCAA Final Four appearances in italics

1917–18 NCAA men's basketball independents standings
v t	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Canisius		–		–	5	–	0	1.000
Creighton		–		–	14	–	0	1.000
Oregon State		–		–	15	–	0	1.000
Rhode Island		–		–	3	–	0	1.000
Utah State		–		–	9	–	0	1.000
Syracuse		–		–	16	–	1	.941
Idaho		–		–	12	–	1	.923
Louisiana State		–		–	12	–	1	.923
Penn State		–		–	12	–	1	.923
Oklahoma		–		–	11	–	1	.917
Navy		–		–	14	–	2	.875
Virginia		–		–	7	–	1	.875
Georgia		–		–	6	–	1	.857
Kentucky		–		–	9	–	2	.818
North Carolina State		–		–	13	–	3	.813
California		–		–	8	–	2	.800
Arizona State		–		–	14	–	4	.778
Boston		–		–	6	–	2	.750
Buffalo		–		–	6	–	2	.750
North Carolina		–		–	9	–	3	.750
Virginia Tech		–		–	15	–	5	.750
Niagara		–		–	8	–	3	.727
Army		–		–	8	–	4	.667
Duke		–		–	10	–	5	.667
Vanderbilt		–		–	6	–	3	.667
Wyoming		–		–	4	–	2	.667
Brigham Young		–		–	5	–	3	.625
Rutgers		–		–	5	–	3	.625
Seton Hall		–		–	8	–	5	.615
South Carolina		–		–	8	–	5	.615
Arizona		–		–	3	–	2	.600
Clemson		–		–	3	–	2	.600
Georgetown		–		–	8	–	6	.571
Utah		–		–	5	–	4	.556
Lehigh		–		–	11	–	9	.550
Temple		–		–	8	–	7	.533
Duquesne		–		–	4	–	4	.500
Indiana State		–		–	8	–	8	.500
Montana		–		–	6	–	6	.500
St. John's (NY)		–		–	8	–	8	.500
Texas Christian		–		–	4	–	4	.500
Bradley		–		–	6	–	8	.429
Colgate		–		–	9	–	12	.429
Manhattan		–		–	6	–	8	.429
Auburn		–		–	2	–	3	.400
Michigan State		–		–	6	–	10	.375
Pittsburgh		–		–	5	–	9	.357
William & Mary		–		–	6	–	11	.353
Dayton		–		–	2	–	4	.333
Notre Dame		–		–	2	–	4	.333
Ohio		–		–	4	–	8	.333
Washington		–		–	4	–	8	.333
Alabama		–		–	2	–	5	.286
Oregon		–		–	3	–	8	.273
Cincinnati		–		–	2	–	6	.250
Montana State		–		–	2	–	6	.250
Tennessee		–		–	3	–	9	.250
Wake Forest		–		–	4	–	12	.250
West Virginia		–		–	4	–	13	.235
Wichita State		–		–	3	–	10	.231
Connecticut		–		–	1	–	6	.143
Butler		–		–	0	–	6	.000
The Citadel		–		–	0	–	1	.000
Southern California		–		–	0	–	2	.000


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