1909–10 IAAUS men's basketball season

The 1909–10 IAAUS men's basketball season began in December 1909, progressed through the regular

Rule changes

  • Continuous dribbling became legal; previously, a player could bounce the ball only once at a time, the bounce had to be higher than his head, and he had to recover the ball himself, in effect passing the ball to himself.[1]
  • The double dribble became illegal; previously, a player could make as many single-bounce dribbles as he wanted as long as he recovered the ball after each bounce (as if passing to himself each time).[2]
  • A player who dribbled the ball was allowed to shoot off the dribble for the first time; previously, a dribbler was not allowed to shoot the ball immediately after dribbling and had to pass it to someone else to shoot it.[1][3]

Season headlines

  • The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS) renamed itself the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) after the end of the season.
  • The new rules allowing continuous dribbling rule and permitting a dribbler to shoot the ball off a dribble converted dribbling from a defensive tactic into a powerful offensive one.[1]
  • In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Columbia as its national champion for the 1909–10 season.[4]
  • In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected Williams as its national champion for the 1909–10 season.[5]

Conference membership changes

School Former Conference New Conference
Denver Pioneers Independent No major basketball program
Harvard Crimson Independent No major basketball program

Regular season

Conference winners

Conference Regular
Season Winner[6]
Conference
Player of the Year
Conference
Tournament
Tournament
Venue (City)
Tournament
Winner
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic AssociationIowa State (North);
Kansas (South)
None selectedNo Tournament;
Kansas was conference champion
Western ConferenceChicagoNone selectedNo Tournament

Statistical leaders

Awards

Helms College Basketball All-Americans

The practice of selecting a Consensus All-American Team did not begin until the 1928–29 season. The Helms Athletic Foundation later retroactively selected a list of All-Americans for the 1909–10 season.[7]

Player Team
William BroadheadNYU
Leon CampbellColgate
Dave ChartersPurdue
William CopthorneArmy
Charles EberleSwarthmore
Samuel HarmanRochester
Ted KiendlColumbia
Ernest LambertOklahoma
W. Vaughn LewisWilliams
Harlan "Pat" PageChicago

Major player of the year awards

References

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