| 1904–05Columbia Lions men's basketball | |
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EIBL Champions Helms Foundation National Champions Premo-Porretta National Champions | |
| Conference | Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League |
| Record | 19–1 (8–0 EIBL) |
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| Home arena | University Heights Gymnasium |
Seasons ← 1903–04 1905–06 → | |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 8 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 19 | – | 1 | .950 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 5 | – | 3 | .625 | 22 | – | 13 | .629 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 4 | – | 4 | .500 | 8 | – | 5 | .615 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 2 | – | 6 | .250 | 5 | – | 16 | .238 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 1 | – | 7 | .125 | 9 | – | 14 | .391 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The1904–05 Columbia Lions men's basketball team representedColumbia University inintercollegiatebasketball during the 1904–05 season. The team finished the season with a 19–1 record[1] and was retroactively named the national champion by theHelms Athletic Foundation and thePremo-Porretta Power Poll.[2][3] Two players were named to thefirst-ever college basketball All-American team at the end of the season:Harry Fisher andMarcus Hurley.
| Date time, TV | Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | Site city, state | ||||||
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| * | at Pratt | W 34–18 | 1–0 | Brooklyn, NY | |||||||
| * | at Co. F. Norwalk | W 21–9 | 2–0 | Norwalk, CT | |||||||
| * | at Central YMCA | W 25–22 | 3–0 | | |||||||
| * | at Newport YMCA | W 24–22 | 4–0 | | |||||||
| * | at Fall River YMCA | W 18–11 | 5–0 | | |||||||
| * | at Fitchburg YMCA | W 19–16 | 6–0 | | |||||||
| * | at Washington Continentals | L 7–17 | 6–1 | | |||||||
| * | at Army | W 29–25 | 7–1 | West Point, NY | |||||||
| Cornell | W 30–11 | 8–1 (1–0) | University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY | ||||||||
| 1/17/1905* | Wisconsin | W 21–15 | 9–1 | University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY | |||||||
| at Cornell | W 23–17 | 10–1 (2–0) | Ithaca, NY | ||||||||
| * | at Rochester | W 36–24 | 11–1 | Rochester, NY | |||||||
| * | at Second Signal Corporation | W 26–23 | 12–1 | | |||||||
| Yale | W 14–12 | 13–1 (3–0) | University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY | ||||||||
| * | Minnesota | W 27–15 | 14–1 | University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY | |||||||
| at Princeton | W 32–28 | 15–1 (4–0) | University Gymnasium Princeton, NJ | ||||||||
| Princeton | W 33–19 | 16–1 (5–0) | University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY | ||||||||
| at Yale | W 24–21 | 17–1 (6–0) | New Haven, CT | ||||||||
| at Penn | W 27–17 | 18–1 (7–0) | Philadelphia, PA | ||||||||
| Penn | W 56–16 | 19–1 (8–0) | University Heights Gymnasium Upper Manhattan, NY | ||||||||
*Non-conference game.#Rankings fromAP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. | |||||||||||
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