A bit of trivia I did not know...
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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!!!
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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.
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Pretty cool find. Thanks for sharing it.
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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.
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@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).
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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…
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There are a bunch of super interesting anecdotes…some are waaaaaaaaay off the wall
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Thx
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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.
