1909–10 IAAUS men's basketball season

The 1909–10 IAAUS men's basketball season began in December 1909, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1910.

1909–10 IAAUS men's basketball season
Helms National Champions	Columbia (retroactive selection in 1943)
Player of the Year (Helms)	Harlan "Pat" Page, Chicago (retroactive selection in 1944)
← 1908–09 1910–11 →

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

Conferences

Conference winners

Conference	Regular Season Winner[6]	Conference Player of the Year	Conference Tournament	Tournament Venue (City)	Tournament Winner
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Iowa State (North); Kansas (South)	None selected	No Tournament; Kansas was conference champion
Western Conference	Chicago	None selected	No Tournament

Conference standings

1909–10 Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association men's basketball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT North Division Nebraska 6 – 2   .750 6 – 10   .375 Iowa State 6 – 2   .750 9 – 7   .563 Drake 0 – 8   .000 0 – 12   .000 South Division Kansas† 7 – 1   .875 18 – 1   .947 Washington University 4 – 4   .500 7 – 5   .583 Missouri 1 – 7   .125 7 – 11   .389 † Conference championship winner

1909–10 Western Conference men's basketball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT Chicago 9 – 3   .750 10 – 3   .769 Minnesota 7 – 3   .700 10 – 3   .769 Wisconsin 7 – 5   .583 9 – 5   .643 Illinois 5 – 4   .556 5 – 4   .556 Purdue 5 – 5   .500 8 – 5   .615 Iowa 2 – 2   .500 11 – 3   .786 Indiana 3 – 7   .300 5 – 8   .385 Northwestern 0 – 9   .000 0 – 9   .000

Independents

A total of 115 college teams played as major independents. Among independents that played at least 10 games, Columbia (11–0), Virginia Tech (11–0), and Williams (11–0) were undefeated, and Southern California (21–3) finished with the most wins.^[7]

1909–10 IAAUS men's basketball independents standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT Columbia –   – 11 – 0   1.000 Oklahoma –   – 8 – 0   1.000 Virginia Tech –   – 11 – 0   1.000 Wake Forest –   – 1 – 0   1.000 Washburn –   – 4 – 0   1.000 Whittier –   – 8 – 0   1.000 Williams –   – 11 – 0   1.000 Army –   – 14 – 1   .933 Southwestern (Kan.) –   – 13 – 1   .929 Grinnell –   – 12 – 1   .923 Cotner –   – 11 – 1   .917 Ohio State –   – 11 – 1   .917 Navy –   – 10 – 1   .909 Rochester (N.Y.) –   – 17 – 2   .895 Fordham –   – 16 – 2   .889 Canisius –   – 15 – 2   .882 Southern California –   – 21 – 3   .875 Central University (Ky.) –   – 20 – 3   .870 Utah –   – 17 – 3   .850 North Dakota Agricultural –   – 11 – 2   .846 Brigham Young –   – 9 – 2   .818 Niagara –   – 13 – 3   .813 Washington State –   – 12 – 3   .800 Kansas State –   – 11 – 3   .786 Oberlin –   – 10 – 3   .769 Vanderbilt –   – 10 – 3   .769 New York University –   – 13 – 4   .765 Lehigh –   – 6 – 2   .750 LSU –   – 3 – 1   .750 Seton Hall –   – 6 – 2   .750 St. John's (N.Y.) –   – 15 – 5   .750 Swarthmore –   – 9 – 3   .750 Virginia –   – 12 – 4   .750 Allegheny –   – 8 – 3   .727 Notre Dame –   – 10 – 4   .714 Marietta –   – 7 – 3   .700 Washington –   – 14 – 6   .700 Georgia –   – 2 – 1   .667 Michigan State –   – 10 – 5   .667 Montana State –   – 6 – 3   .667 Rhode Island State –   – 6 – 3   .667 Wisconsin–Stevens Point –   – 2 – 1   .667 Auburn –   – 11 – 6   .647 Colgate –   – 9 – 5   .643 Wesleyan (Conn.) –   – 9 – 5   .643 Wooster –   – 7 – 4   .636 Akron –   – 5 – 3   .625 St. Joseph's –   – 5 – 3   .625 Baylor –   – 8 – 5   .615 Illinois State –   – 8 – 5   .615 Cincinnati –   – 3 – 2   .600 CCNY –   – 6 – 4   .600 Dartmouth –   – 6 – 4   .600 Maine –   – 6 – 4   .600 Miami (Ohio) –   – 6 – 4   .600 Bloomsburg –   – 7 – 5   .583 Bucknell –   – 7 – 5   .583 Colorado –   – 7 – 5   .583 Grove City –   – 7 – 5   .583 Wabash –   – 7 – 5   .583 Millikin –   – 4 – 3   .571 Penn State –   – 8 – 6   .571 Oregon Agricultural –   – 7 – 3   .700 SUNY-Potsdam –   – 11 – 9   .550 Cornell –   – 7 – 6   .538 Princeton –   – 7 – 6   .538 Pennsylvania –   – 11 – 10   .524 Arizona –   – 2 – 2   .500 Delaware –   – 6 – 6   .500 Trinity (N.C.) –   – 4 – 4   .500 Kalamazoo –   – 2 – 2   .500 Oklahoma A&M –   – 3 – 3   .500 Butler –   – 3 – 4   .429 Saint Mary's (Calif.) –   – 1 – 1   .500 Washington and Lee –   – 6 – 6   .500 Wyoming –   – 3 – 3   .500 Idaho –   – 8 – 9   .471 Tennessee –   – 7 – 8   .467 Bradley –   – 6 – 7   .462 Denison –   – 6 – 7   .462 Texas –   – 6 – 7   .462 Dayton –   – 5 – 6   .455 Gettysburg –   – 5 – 6   .455 Mount Union –   – 8 – 10   .444 Tulane –   – 3 – 4   .429 Georgetown –   – 5 – 7   .417 Davidson –   – 2 – 3   .400 Detroit –   – 2 – 3   .400 New Mexico –   – 2 – 3   .400 North Dakota –   – 4 – 6   .400 Temple –   – 4 – 6   .400 New Mexico A&M –   – 3 – 5   .375 Brown –   – 5 – 9   .357 Colorado Agricultural –   – 1 – 2   .333 Franklin –   – 3 – 6   .333 Kentucky –   – 4 – 8   .333 Lake Forest –   – 3 – 6   .333 Manhattan –   – 7 – 15   .318 Springfield (Mass.) –   – 3 – 7   .300 Union (N.Y.) –   – 3 – 7   .300 Utah State –   – 3 – 7   .300 Nebraska Wesleyan –   – 4 – 10   .286 Ohio –   – 8 – 11   .421 Trinity (Conn.) –   – 4 – 10   .286 VMI –   – 2 – 5   .286 Yale –   – 4 – 11   .267 William & Mary –   – 8 – 11   .421 Fairmount –   – 3 – 10   .231 Syracuse –   – 3 – 11   .214 Carleton –   – 1 – 4   .200 Indiana State –   – 2 – 9   .182 Oregon –   – 1 – 5   .167 Ole Miss –   – 0 – 7   .000 Santa Clara –   – 0 – 5   .000 South Carolina –   – 0 – 1   .000 Rankings from AP Poll

Statistical leaders

Awards

Helms College Basketball All-Americans

Main article: 1910 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 1909–10 season.^[8]

Player	Team
William Broadhead	NYU
Leon Campbell	Colgate
Dave Charters	Purdue
William Copthorne	Army
Charles Eberle	Swarthmore
Samuel Harman	Rochester
Ted Kiendl	Columbia
Ernest Lambert	Oklahoma
W. Vaughn Lewis	Williams
Harlan "Pat" Page	Chicago

Major player of the year awards

• Helms Player of the Year: Harlan "Pat" Page, Chicago (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
Akron	Clarence Weed		Frank Haggerty
Baylor	Enoch J. Mills		Ralph Glaze
Brown	Walter White		J. Russell McKay
Butler	Walter Gipe		Bill Diddle
BYU	Fred Bennion		Henry Rose	Bennion left to coach at Utah.
Cincinnati	C. A. Shroetter		Russ Easton
Colorado Agricultural	Claude Rothgeb		George Cassidy
Cornell	David Coogan		Paul Sternberg
Dartmouth	Benjamin Lang		Tom Keady
Drake	John L. Griffith		A. R. Hackett
Georgia	C. O. Heildler		W. A. Cunningham
Idaho	John S. Grogan		John G. Griffith
Illinois	Herb Juul		Thomas E. Thompson
Illinois State	George Binnewies		Harrison Russell
Indiana	John Georgen		Oscar Rackle
Iowa	John G. Griffith		Walter Stewart
Michigan State	Chester Brewer		John Macklin	Brewer left to coach at Missouri.
Missouri	Guy Lowman		Chester Brewer
Navy	Billy Lush		Bernard Willis	Lush left for Yale.
Nebraska	T. J. Hewitt		Osmond F. Field
New Mexico Agricultural	George Lain		Art Badenoch
Niagara	Claude Allen		Alfred Heerdt
Northwestern	Louis Gillesby		Stuart Templeton
Oregon Agricultural	E. D. Angell		Clifford Reed	Angell left to coach at Milwaukee Normal School
Rhode Island State	Phil Wessels		George Cobb
Saint Joseph's	John Dever		Edward Bennis
Saint Mary's (CA)	Frank Boek		Otto Rittler
Seton Hall	Dick McDonough		Jim Flanagan
St. John's	Harry A. Fisher		Claude Allen
Utah	Robert Richardson		Fred Bennion
Vanderbilt	R. B. McGehee		Zeke Martin
VMI	F. J. Pratt		J. Mitchell