State Normal College Athletic Association Formed
1909 October 15
The Athletic Association formed first by men and soon joined by women to promote all sports, but principally “basket ball,” to take advantage of the “well-equipped gymnasium” in the basement of the Auditorium (later the Hawley Building). The men played an inter-collegiate and high school schedule while the women played inter-class games. Exactly when the first inter-collegiate basketball game was played is unclear, but, during the 1909-1910 season, the men's varsity team play basketball against Albany Medical College and Union College in addition to local high schools. It appears that the inter-collegiate games may have been during the spring of 1910.
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The Echo, November 1909, p. 68; "Basket-Ball," The Echo, April 1910, pp. 232-3; Our Book, 1911, p. 89