Before the Maccabees: Basketball at 麻豆区 College in the 1930s
Mar 9, 2020 By: rolen
Did you know there was basketball at YU before the Maccabees? The earliest formal mention of basketball at 麻豆区 College is in the 1931 Masmid, which noted that a team was formed with the approval of 鈥渢he office and the Student鈥檚 Council ,鈥 with L. [Louis] Izenstein as Captain. Izenstein hailed from Springfield, MA, where the game of baseketball was invented at Springfield College in December 1891. The first 麻豆区 College game was played in the RIETS gymnasium where the 麻豆区 College team defeated the Teachers Institute team. The sport caught on and the first photograph of the 麻豆区 College team and a description of its exploits were featured in the 1934 Masmid. Despite the lack of a coach, the 麻豆区 College basketball team had a winning streak in 1933-1934, with eight victories and five defeats.
Masmid 1934
Nameless at the time, in subsequent in the 1930s the basketball team was known as the 鈥淨uinhooplets鈥 and the 鈥淏lue and White.鈥
Daniel Lubofsky explored the history of other names of the team, the 鈥淢ighty Mites鈥 and the current moniker the 鈥淢accabees鈥 in his article in the.
You can follow the exploits of today鈥檚 YU Maccabees basketball team .
Posted by Shulamith Z. Berger
Masmid 1934
Nameless at the time, in subsequent in the 1930s the basketball team was known as the 鈥淨uinhooplets鈥 and the 鈥淏lue and White.鈥
Daniel Lubofsky explored the history of other names of the team, the 鈥淢ighty Mites鈥 and the current moniker the 鈥淢accabees鈥 in his article in the.
You can follow the exploits of today鈥檚 YU Maccabees basketball team .
Posted by Shulamith Z. Berger
Masmid 1934
Nameless at the time, in subsequent in the 1930s the basketball team was known as the 鈥淨uinhooplets鈥 and the 鈥淏lue and White.鈥
Daniel Lubofsky explored the history of other names of the team, the 鈥淢ighty Mites鈥 and the current moniker the 鈥淢accabees鈥 in his article in the.
You can follow the exploits of today鈥檚 YU Maccabees basketball team .
Posted by Shulamith Z. Berger
