1917–18 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team

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1917–18 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
Georgetown Hoyas logo.svg
ConferenceIndependent
1917–18 record8–6
Head coach
  • John O'Reilly (4th season)
CaptainBob O'Lone (2nd year)
Home arena
Seasons
1917–18 NCAA men's basketball independents standings
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
Rankings from AP Poll
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[]

  1. ^ 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[]

  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.
  2. ^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts
  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.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1910s Seasons
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1920s Seasons
  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]
  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]
  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. ^ hoyasaxa.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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