1906–07 IAAUS men's basketball season

The 1906–07 IAAUS men's basketball season began in December 1906, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1907.

1906–07 IAAUS men's basketball season
Helms National Champions	Chicago (retroactive selection in 1943)
Player of the Year (Helms)	Gilmore Kinney, Yale (retroactive selection in 1944)
← 1905–06 1907–08 →

Rule changes

• The free-throw line, which had been at 20 feet (6.1 m) since 1894, is moved to 15 feet (4.6 m).^[1]

Season headlines

• The 1906–07 season was the first to be played after the founding of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS), which renamed itself the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1910.
• In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Chicago as its national champion for the 1906–07 season.^[2]
• In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected Williams as its national champion for the 1906–07 season.^[3]
• The 1906–07 Army Cadets men's basketball team represented United States Military Academy during the 1906–07 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Harry Fisher, coaching his first season with the Cadets. The team captain was Lewis Rockwell.

Conference membership changes

School	Former Conference	New Conference
Georgetown Hoyas	No basketball team	Independent
Northwestern Wildcats	No major basketball program	Western Conference

Regular season

Conferences

Conference	Regular Season Winner[4]	Conference Player of the Year	Conference Tournament	Tournament Venue (City)	Tournament Winner
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League	Yale	None selected	No Tournament[5]
Western Conference	Chicago, Minnesota, & Wisconsin	None selected	No Tournament[6]

1906–07 Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT Yale 9 – 1   .900 30 – 7   .811 Columbia 8 – 2   .800 11 – 2   .846 Penn 6 – 4   .600 15 – 8   .652 Harvard 4 – 6   .400 7 – 9   .438 Princeton 2 – 8   .200 4 – 10   .286 Cornell 1 – 9   .100 1 – 11   .083

1906–07 Western Conference men's basketball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT Chicago 6 – 2   .750 21 – 2   .913 Minnesota 6 – 2   .750 10 – 2   .833 Wisconsin 6 – 2   .750 11 – 3   .786 Purdue 2 – 6   .250 7 – 8   .467 Illinois 0 – 8   .000 1 – 10   .091 Indiana - – -   – 9 – 5   .643 Iowa - – -   – 5 – 5   .500 Northwestern - – -   – 1 – 5   .167

Independents

A total of 93 college teams played as major independents. Among independents that played 10 or more games, Baker (14–0) and Dayton (14–0) went undefeated and Oregon Agricultural (17–1) and Wabash (17–2) finished with the most wins.^[7]

1906–07 IAAUS men's basketball independents standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT Baker –   – 14 – 0   1.000 Concordia Seminary –   – 5 – 0   1.000 Dayton –   – 14 – 0   1.000 Georgia –   – 2 – 0   1.000 North Dakota –   – 7 – 0   1.000 Rhode Island –   – 5 – 0   1.000 Wake Forest –   – 4 – 0   1.000 Oregon Agricultural –   – 17 – 1   .944 Williams –   – 15 – 1   .938 North Dakota State –   – 11 – 1   .917 Allegheny –   – 10 – 1   .909 Bucknell –   – 10 – 1   .909 Wabash –   – 17 – 2   .895 CCNY –   – 8 – 1   .889 Michigan State –   – 14 – 2   .875 Westminster (Pa.) –   – 7 – 1   .875 Vanderbilt –   – 6 – 1   .857 Wisconsin–Stevens Point –   – 6 – 1   .857 Grinnell –   – 9 – 2   .818 Lehigh –   – 9 – 2   .818 Cincinnati –   – 7 – 2   .778 Dartmouth –   – 13 – 4   .765 Arizona –   – 3 – 1   .750 Buffalo –   – 6 – 2   .750 Lake Forest –   – 6 – 2   .750 New York University –   – 6 – 2   .750 Akron –   – 5 – 2   .714 Brigham Young –   – 7 – 3   .700 Canisius –   – 9 – 4   .692 Auburn –   – 4 – 2   .667 Drake –   – 2 – 1   .667 Trinity (N.C.) –   – 4 – 2   .667 Montana State –   – 4 – 2   .667 Washburn –   – 10 – 5   .667 Widener –   – 6 – 3   .667 Wooster –   – 8 – 4   .667 Southwestern (Kan.) –   – 13 – 7   .650 Army –   – 9 – 5   .643 Colgate –   – 9 – 5   .643 Denison –   – 9 – 5   .643 Fordham –   – 16 – 9   .640 Maine –   – 7 – 4   .636 Colorado Agricultural –   – 5 – 3   .625 Illinois State –   – 5 – 3   .625 Missouri –   – 10 – 6   .625 Nebraska –   – 10 – 6   .625 Virginia –   – 5 – 3   .625 Colorado –   – 6 – 4   .600 Washington (Mo.) –   – 6 – 4   .600 Brown –   – 10 – 7   .588 Ohio State –   – 7 – 5   .583 Muhlenberg –   – 4 – 3   .571 Oregon –   – 4 – 3   .571 Syracuse –   – 4 – 3   .571 Temple –   – 5 – 4   .556 Washington State –   – 5 – 4   .556 Delaware –   – 6 – 5   .545 Grove City –   – 6 – 5   .545 Pittsburgh –   – 6 – 5   .545 USC –   – 6 – 5   .545 Bradley –   – 7 – 6   .538 Georgetown –   – 2 – 2   .500 Gettysburg –   – 3 – 3   .500 Idaho –   – 3 – 3   .500 Mount Union –   – 7 – 7   .500 Nebraska Wesleyan –   – 5 – 5   .500 New Mexico –   – 1 – 1   .500 Niagara –   – 5 – 5   .500 Texas –   – 4 – 4   .500 Wesleyan (Conn.) –   – 9 – 9   .500 Kansas –   – 7 – 8   .467 Baylor –   – 5 – 6   .455 Kansas State –   – 5 – 6   .455 Penn State –   – 5 – 6   .455 Trinity (Conn.) –   – 5 – 6   .455 Bloomsburg –   – 6 – 8   .429 Union (N.Y.) –   – 6 – 8   .429 Wyoming –   – 3 – 4   .429 Connecticut –   – 5 – 7   .417 Denver –   – 7 – 10   .412 Butler –   – 2 – 4   .333 Kentucky –   – 3 – 6   .333 Miami (Ohio) –   – 2 – 4   .333 West Virginia –   – 4 – 8   .333 Fairmount –   – 3 – 6   .333 Utah State –   – 2 – 6   .250 Manhattan –   – 2 – 7   .222 Tulane –   – 2 – 8   .200 Washington and Lee –   – 2 – 8   .200 William & Mary –   – 1 – 4   .200 Indiana State –   – 1 – 8   .111 Franklin (Ind.) –   – 0 – 1   .000 New Mexico A&M –   – 0 – 1   .000

Statistical leaders

Awards

Helms College Basketball All-Americans

Main article: 1907 NCAA Men's 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 1906–07 season.^[8]

Player	Team
Frank Arthur	Wisconsin
George Flint	Penn
Albert Houghton	Chicago
Marcus Hurley	Columbia
Charles Keinath	Penn
Gilmore Kinney	Yale
John Ryan	Columbia
John Schommer	Chicago
Oswald Tower	Williams
L. Parson Warren	Williams

Major player of the year awards

• Helms Player of the Year: Gilmore Kinney, Yale (retroactive selection in 1944)

Coaching changes

A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.

Team	Former Coach	Interim Coach	New Coach	Reason
Army	Harry A. Fisher		Joseph Stilwell
Brown	W. W. Reynolds		J. Donald Pryor
Butler	Art Guedel		Jack McKay
Canisius	J. P. Quinlisk		John Mahoney
Drexel	W. S. Brokaw		F. Bennett
Fordham	Frank O'Donnell		Chris Mahoney
Georgetown	No coach		Maurice Joyce	After having no coach during its initial season (1906–07) and relying on an elected student manager to run the team, Georgetown hired Joyce for the 1907–08 season as its first coach.[9]
Georgia	Walter Forbes		C. O. Heildler
Idaho	John G. Griffith		George Wyman
Illinois	Frank L. Pinckney		Fletcher Lan
Indiana	James M. Sheldon		Ed Cook
Iowa	John G. Griffith		Ed Rule
Kansas	James Naismith		Phog Allen	Future Hall of Famer Allen launched his coaching career, taking over from the sport's founder Naismith.
Miami (Ohio)	John Snyder		C. H. Martin
Missouri	Isadore Anderson		A. M. Ebright
Montana	Frederick Schule		Albion Findlay
Oregon	Hugo Bezdek		Charles Murphy
Oregon Agricultural	W. O. Trine		Roy Heater
Pittsburgh	Benjamin Printz		Harry Hough
Princeton	William Kelleher		C. F. Kogel
South Dakota State	William Juneau		Jason M. Saunderson
Utah State	George P. Campbell		Mysterious Walker
Vanderbilt	Stein Stone		W. L. Throop
Washington State	Everett Sweeley		John R. Bender
West Virginia	Anthony Chez		James Jenkins
William & Mary	H. W. Withers		F. M. Crawford