American college basketball season
1904–05 Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League standings
Conf Overall
Team W
L
PCT W
L
PCT
Columbia 8
–
0
1.000
19
–
1
.950
Yale 5
–
3
.625
22
–
13
.629
Princeton 4
–
4
.500
8
–
5
.615
Cornell 2
–
6
.250
5
–
16
.238
Penn 1
–
7
.125
9
–
14
.391
The 1904–05 Columbia Lions men's basketball team represented Columbia University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1904–05 season. The team finished the season with a 19–1 record[ 1] Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll .[ 2] [ 3] first-ever college basketball All-American team at the end of the season: Harry Fisher and Marcus Hurley .
Schedule
Date
Rank#
Opponent#
Result
Record
Site
Regular season
at Pratt
W 34–18 1–0
Brooklyn, NY
at Co. F. Norwalk
W 21–9 2–0
Norwalk, CT
at Central YMCA
W 25–22 3–0
at Newport YMCA
W 24–22 4–0
at Fall River YMCA
W 18–11 5–0
at Fitchburg YMCA
W 19–16 6–0
at Washington Continentals
L 7–17 6–1
at Army
W 29–25 7–1
West Point, NY
Cornell W 30–11 8–1 (1–0)
University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY
1/17/1905 *
Wisconsin W 21–15 9–1
University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY
at Cornell
W 23–17 10–1 (2–0)
Ithaca, NY
at Rochester
W 36–24 11–1
Rochester, NY
at Second Signal Corporation
W 26–23 12–1
Yale W 14–12 13–1 (3–0)
University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY
Minnesota W 27–15 14–1
University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY
at Princeton
W 32–28 15–1 (4–0)
University Gymnasium Princeton, NJ
Princeton W 33–19 16–1 (5–0)
University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY
at Yale
W 24–21 17–1 (6–0)
New Haven, CT
at Penn
W 27–17 18–1 (7–0)
Philadelphia, PA
Penn W 56–16 19–1 (8–0)
University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY
*Non-conference game.
# Rankings from
AP Poll . (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
Source [ 4]
References
Venues Culture & lore People Seasons Helms and Premo-Porretta national championships in bold