I found this quite by accident and it is something I had not been aware of...or maybe I knew but did not pay much attention and it clicked because of a thread we had on Naismith and Chamberlain and 12 foot baskets...
Here is a link ↗ to the book. Scroll up and down, lots of really cool trivia. BTW, in that game Ray Ebling became the first Jayhawk to hit a 3-pointer!!!
I met Ray once and knew his son at KU. I should try to catch up with him-surely must have told him about those two games.
I read PHOG Allen did not like the rim at 10 feet, did not believe dunking was fair and tried to get the bucket moved up to 12 feet.
Pretty cool find. Thanks for sharing it.
Stellar find!
Did it mention FG % or have a box score?
Maybe ku athletics has the box score.
It would be interesting to see how much it reduced FG% vs season FG% at 10 feet.
@JayHawkFanToo While that KU/KSU blurb is interesting, I thought the Moorehead/Tennessee Tech one was absolutely bonkers. I'd actually kind of love to see a game go that far off the rails (not one that KU is involved in, of course).
Records go back only to 1946 so, short of finding and archived newspaper from that time, it would be difficult. I believe the original reference comes from the Crimson and Blue handbook that you can still get from Amazon.
Here are a couple of links to get you started...
There are a bunch of super interesting anecdotes...some are waaaaaaaaay off the wall :)
Thx
Your mission is most definitely to talk to Ray, if he is still with us, or his son, if not. This use of the three point basket is the earliest I have heard of. I recall the games with the 12 foot baskets. But I never knew they played with the FGs counting 3.