1914–15 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team

1914–15 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball

Conference	Independent
1914–15 record	8–8
Head coach	John O'Reilly (1st year)
Captain	Harry Kelly (1st year)
Home arena	Ryan Gymnasium

The 1914–15 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1914-15 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John O'Reilly coached the team in his first season as head coach.^[1] Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at Ryan Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.,^[2] and finished the season with a record of 8-8.

New head coach O'Reilly coached three sports at Georgetown – basketball, baseball, and track – and was destined to coach the basketball team to some of its great early triumphs. He would coach the team for 11 seasons, interrupted by a hiatus during the 1921-22 and 1922-23 seasons due to illness, and post an overall record of 87-47. His tenure would see most of a 52-game home winning streak at Ryan Gymnasium between the final game of the 1916-17 season and midway through the 1923-24 season that included victories over top national teams North Carolina (twice), Georgia Tech, and Kentucky. Fifteen of the 19 straight victories over George Washington also would occur with him at the helm.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Season recap

The move to Ryan Gymnasium meant that this was the first Georgetown men's basketball team to play its games on campus. Opened in 1906, when competitive college basketball was just beginning at Georgetown, Ryan had not been intended to host competitive sporting events; it had no seating, accommodating fans on a standing-room-only basis on an indoor track above the basketball court. This precluded large crowds at the Hoyas‍ ' home games despite the team‍ 's home success during the 13 years at Ryan, limiting revenue for the self-sustaining Basketball Association, which funded the team‍ 's travel expenses. Despite this drawback, Ryan would serve as the Hoyas‍ ' home court through the end of the 1926-27 season, although from the 1918-19 season through 1926-27 the Hoyas would play very few road games in order to keep travel expenses to a bare minimum.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Georgetown defeated crosstown rival George Washington twice this season, the first of 19 straight wins over George Washington before George Washington suspended the series after the 1923-24 season.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Roster

Sources^[6]^[7]

Georgetown players did not wear numbers on their jerseys this season. The first numbered jerseys in Georgetown men‍ 's basketball history would not appear until the 1933-34 season.^[6]

Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Position	Class	Hometown	Previous Team(s)
Gerald "Gerry" Curry	N/A	N/A	G	Jr.	N/A	N/A
Matt Donnelly	N/A	N/A	G	Jr.	N/A	N/A
Fred Flanagan	N/A	N/A	F	Jr.	N/A	N/A
Sam Foley	N/A	N/A	G	Sr.	N/A	N/A
Harry "King" Kelly	N/A	N/A	G	Jr.	N/A	N/A
Leo Klauberg	N/A	N/A	F	Jr.	N/A	N/A
Bob O'Lone	N/A	N/A	F	Fr.	N/A	N/A
Johnny Shugrue	N/A	N/A	F	Sr.	Washington, DC, U.S.	Georgetown Preparatory School (North Bethesda, MD)
Jim Tormey	N/A	N/A	C	Sr.	Baltimore, MD, U.S.	Loyola College (Md.)
William "Bill" Valk	N/A	N/A	G	Sr.	Washington, DC, U.S.	Central HS

1914–15 schedule and results

Sources^[5]^[8]^[9]^[10]

Date	Opponent	Result	Record	Site
Regular Season
Wed., Dec. 9, 1914	Mount St. Joseph	W 34–18	1-0	Ryan Gymnasium
Thu., Dec. 17, 1914	at Seton Hall	L 13–38	1-1	N/A
Fri., Dec. 18, 1914	at Fordham	L 28–31	1-2	N/A
Sat., Dec. 19, 1914	at Army	L 3–20	1-3	N/A
N/A	at New York University	L 21–38	1-4	N/A
Fri., Jan. 15, 1915	West Virginia Wesleyan	W 27–24	2-4	Ryan Gymnasium
Wed., Jan. 20, 1915	Virginia Tech	W 25–21	3-4	Ryan Gymnasium
Sat., Jan. 23, 1915	at Washington and Lee	L 23–32	3-5	N/A
Tue., Jan. 26, 1915	at Mount St. Joseph	L 21–28	3-6	Mount St. Joseph Gymnasium
Sat., Jan. 30, 1915	at Navy	L 7–46	3-7	Dahlgren Hall
Fri., Feb. 5, 1915	Fordham	W 31–16	4-7	Ryan Gymnasium
Mon., Feb. 8, 1915	New York University	W 20–16	5-7	Ryan Gymnasium
Fri., Feb. 19, 1915	Penn State	L 27–35	5-8	Ryan Gymnasium
Wed., Feb. 24, 1915	George Washington	W 39–17	6-8	Ryan Gymnasium
Sat., Feb. 27, 1915	Gallaudet	W 29–18	7-8	Ryan Gymnasium
Sat., Mar. 6, 1915	George Washington	W 21–15	8-8	Ryan Gymnasium
*Non-conference game. ( ) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

References

Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball

Venues	Washington Light Infantry Armory (1906–1907) Convention Hall (1907–1908) Odd Fellows Hall (1908–1911) Arcade Rink (1911–1914, 1927–1928) Ryan Gymnasium (1914–1927) Clendenen Gymnasium (1928–1929) Tech Gymnasium (1929–1940, 1942–1943) Riverside Stadium (1940–1942) Brookland Gymnasium (1945–1946) Uline Arena (1946–1947, 1949–1951) D.C. Armory (1947–1949) McDonough Gymnasium (1951–2009) Capital Centre (1981–1997) Verizon Center (1997–present)

Culture & lore	History Hoya Saxa Jack the Bulldog There Goes Old Georgetown

People	Head coaches NBA draftees

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NCAA national championships in bold; NCAA Final Four appearances in italics