Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League
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The Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League is a defunct athletic conference
comprising the predecessor institutions of higher education
in the Northeastern United States
that subsequently formed the Ivy League
. Its membership ranged between five and eight institutions. The eight institutions are Brown University
, Columbia University
, Cornell University
, Dartmouth College
, Harvard University
, Princeton University
, the University of Pennsylvania
, and Yale University
. The league was founded by Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Ralph Morgan
. The Ivy League considers the league its forerunner.
The Ivy League basketball record book recognizes EIBL league champions from 1902 until Ivy League play began with the 1955-56 season. Member schools played an eight-game (five-team) round robin home and home conference schedule during the 1901–02 and 1902–03 collegiate men's basketball seasons. This expanded to a ten-game (six-team) schedule for one season in 1903–04 before returning to an eight-game schedule for one season in 1904–05. Participants again played ten-game schedules in 1905–06 and 1906–07 before returning to an eight-game schedule in 1907–08. The team would play a ten-game schedule in 1911–12 and then regularly from 1913–14 until 1933–34 when it expanded to a twelve-game (seven-team) format, except 1918–19. Teams regularly played twelve-game schedules until 1942–43 NCAA men's basketball season. During the World War II
seasons from 1943–44 until 1945–46 only eight game schedules were played. From 1946–47 until 1952–53 members played twelve-game schedules again. Then, the conference played fourteen-game (eight-team) schedules in 1953–54 and 1954–55. Subsequently the member schools participated in Ivy League
college basketball
competition.
Athletic conference
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comprising the predecessor institutions of higher education
University
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in the Northeastern United States
Northeastern United States
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that subsequently formed the Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
. Its membership ranged between five and eight institutions. The eight institutions are Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, and Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. The league was founded by Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Ralph Morgan
Ralph Morgan (basketball)
Ralph Morgan was an American basketball administrator. He was instrumental in early 20th century development of basketball rules. He founded the College Basketball Rules Committee in 1905. In 1931, CBRC became the National Basketball Rules Committee. He contributed to the rulebook until 1958...
. The Ivy League considers the league its forerunner.
The Ivy League basketball record book recognizes EIBL league champions from 1902 until Ivy League play began with the 1955-56 season. Member schools played an eight-game (five-team) round robin home and home conference schedule during the 1901–02 and 1902–03 collegiate men's basketball seasons. This expanded to a ten-game (six-team) schedule for one season in 1903–04 before returning to an eight-game schedule for one season in 1904–05. Participants again played ten-game schedules in 1905–06 and 1906–07 before returning to an eight-game schedule in 1907–08. The team would play a ten-game schedule in 1911–12 and then regularly from 1913–14 until 1933–34 when it expanded to a twelve-game (seven-team) format, except 1918–19. Teams regularly played twelve-game schedules until 1942–43 NCAA men's basketball season. During the World War II
World War II
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seasons from 1943–44 until 1945–46 only eight game schedules were played. From 1946–47 until 1952–53 members played twelve-game schedules again. Then, the conference played fourteen-game (eight-team) schedules in 1953–54 and 1954–55. Subsequently the member schools participated in Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
college basketball
College basketball
College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....
competition.