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The American Basketball League (ABL) was an early professional basketball league. During six seasons from 1925–26 to 1930–31, the ABL was the first attempt to create a major professional basketball league in the United States.
The practice of enclosing basketball courts in chicken wire, chain-link fencing, or rope — giving basketball the nickname "the cage game" — ended.Intended to increase the tempo of play by keeping the ball from going out of bounds, to protect players and rowdy spectators from each other, and to prevent fans from throwing objects onto the court, the use of these "cages" had led to rough ...
In the 1920s and 1930s, Eastern Basket Ball League (founded in 1909), [24] Metropolitan Basketball League (founded in 1921) [25] and American Basketball League (founded in 1925) [26] were the most important leagues.
Original Celtics at the Basketball Hall of Fame. Fox, Larry. 1973. Illustrated History of Basketball. Murry Nelson (1999). The Originals: the New York Celtics invent modern basketball. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. ISBN 978-0-87972-794-9. Murry Nelson (2004). "The Original Celtics and the 1926–27 American Basketball League".
1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. / ... 1920 in basketball (3 C, 1 P) 1921 ...
On February 20, 1931, St. John's and Carnegie Tech met in the first college basketball game ever filmed for a newsreel. [2] In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Northwestern as its national champion for the 1930–31 season. [3]
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The Rens were one of the dominant basketball teams of the 1920s and 1930s. They were originally known as the Spartan Braves, the basketball team of the Spartan Field Club, a Manhattan-based multi-sport amateur athletic organization whose initial focus was cricket.