1931–32 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team

1931–32 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball

Conference	Independent
1931–32 record	6–11
Head coach	Fred Mesmer (1st year)
Captain	Dick King (1st year)
Home arena	Tech Gymnasium

The 1931–32 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1931-32 NCAA Division I college basketball season. Fred Mesmer coached it in his first season as head coach.^[1] Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at Tech Gymnasium on the campus of McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C..^[2] The team finished with a record of 6-11.^[3]

Mesmer had played guard on Georgetown‍ 's 1927-28, 1928-29, and 1929-30 teams before graduating in 1930. Less than two years after graduation, he was hired at the age of 23 as the Hoyas‍ ' head coach. A popular sports figure on campus, he would coach Georgetown for seven seasons, leaving after the end of the 1937-38 season with an overall record of 53-76. Although his teams would go 36-20 (.643) at home, they would manage only a 17-56 (.233) record on the road, and he would have only two winning seasons – 1933-34 and 1936-37 – during his tenure.^[1]

This was Georgetown‍ 's last season as an independent before beginning a seven-season stint the following year as a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference.

Roster

Sources^[4]^[5]

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.^[4]

Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Position	Class	Hometown	Previous Team(s)
Bernard Bonniwell	N/A	N/A	G	Sr.	Philadelphia, PA, U.S.	Northeast Catholic HS
Tom Carolan	N/A	N/A	F	So.	Syracuse, NY, U.S.	Christian Brothers Academy
Bill Connors	N/A	N/A	G	So.	N/A	N/A
Johnny "Jack" Crowley	N/A	N/A	G	So.	N/A	N/A
Bill Gordon	N/A	N/A	G	Sr.	N/A	N/A
Herman Heide	N/A	N/A	G	So.	N/A	N/A
Dick King	N/A	N/A	G	Sr.	New York, NY, U.S.	St. Peter's Preparatory School
Leo McLaughlin	N/A	N/A	G	Sr.	Jersey City, NJ, U.S.	Loyola School (New York, NY)
Vernon Murphy	N/A	N/A	C	Jr.	N/A	N/A
Joe O'Neill	N/A	N/A	C	Sr.	N/A	N/A

1931–32 schedule and results

Sources^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

It was common practice at this time for colleges and universities to include non-collegiate opponents in their schedules, with the games recognized as part of their official record for the season, and the games played against the Crescent Athletic Club and the Brooklyn Knights of Columbus therefore counted as part of Georgetown‍ 's won-loss record for 1931-32. It was not until 1952, after the completion of the 1951-52 season, that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ruled that colleges and universities could no longer count games played against non-collegiate opponents in their annual won-loss records.^[10]

Date	Opponent	Result	Record	Site
Regular Season
Tue., Dec. 15, 1931	Mount St. Mary's	W 32–23	1-0	Tech Gymnasium
Fri., Dec. 18, 1931	Duke	W 36–26	2-0	Tech Gymnasium
Wed., Jan. 6, 1932	Baltimore	W 31–23	3-0	Tech Gymnasium
Fri., Jan. 8, 1932	at Crescent Athletic Club	L 28–39	3-1	N/A
Sat., Jan. 9, 1932	at New York University	L 18–26	3-2	University Heights Gymnasium
Mon., Jan. 11, 1932	St. John's	L 26–27	3-3	Tech Gymnasium
Wed., Jan. 20, 1932	at Duquesne	L 27–29	3-4	Duquesne Gardens
Thu., Jan. 21, 1932	at Temple	L 19–39	3-5	Mitten Hall
Sat., Jan. 30, 1932	at Brooklyn Knights of Columbus	L 27–29	3-6	N/A
Sun., Jan. 31, 1932	at Army	L 20–24	3-7	Hayes Gymnasium
Wed., Feb. 3, 1932	at Loyola Maryland	L 30–31	3-8	Alumni Gymnasium
Fri., Feb. 5, 1932	Western Maryland	W 25–14	4-8	Tech Gymnasium
Mon., Feb. 8, 1932	West Virginia	W 45-31	5-8	Tech Gymnasium
Sat., Feb. 13, 1932	Piitsburgh	W 33–30	6-8	Tech Gymnasium
Fri., Feb. 19, 1932	at West Virginia	L 28–50	6-9	WVU Field House
N/A	Duquesne	L 24–37	6-10	Tech Gymnasium
N/A	Carnegie Tech	L 26–36	6-11	Tech 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