1909–10 IAAUS men's basketball season

1909–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
1909–10 NCAA Division I 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 →

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

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

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

Statistical leaders

Awards

Helms College 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.^[7]

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Hoop Tactics "The Evolution of Basketball: A Chronological Look At The Major Refinements" Accessed 15 May 2021
^ orangehoops.org History of NCAA Basketball Rule Changes
^ Schleyer, Claudia, "The Rules of Basketball: Boy How They've Changed!", Youth Hoops 101 Accessed 15 May 2021
^ Scott, Jon (November 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved May 13, 2021.
^ ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. pp. 526, 529–587. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
^ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
^ The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"

[hooptactics-1] Hoop Tactics "The Evolution of Basketball: A Chronological Look At The Major Refinements" Accessed 15 May 2021

[2] rangehoops.org History of NCAA Basketball Rule Changes

[3] Schleyer, Claudia, "The Rules of Basketball: Boy How They've Changed!", Youth Hoops 101 Accessed 15 May 2021

[jps-4] Scott, Jon (November 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved May 13, 2021.

[ESPN_526-5] ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. pp. 526, 529–587. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.

[6] "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.

[7] The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"

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