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Identifier: officialaaubaske02amateur (find matches)
Title: Official A.A.U. basketball guide
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Amateur Athletic Union of the United States Athletic League of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America
Subjects: Basketball Basketball for women
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : A.A.U.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, State intercollegiatechampions, and the Detroit Y.M.C.A., both of whom they didnot arrange games with. Detroit A.C. met its only defeat atthe hands of the Hamilton Y.M.C.A. five, being beaten on theLight Guard Armory floor in this city. The Detroit Y.M.C.A. defeated every team in the State thatgames could be arranged with. The Michigan intercollegiatecracks, Michigan Agricultural College, lost their only two gamesof the year to the Detroit Y, being beaten both in Detroitand at Lansing. Detroit Y lost two games of the ten played,one to Hamilton, Canadian champions, and one to Chicago Cen-tral Y.M.C.A. team at Chicago. Chicago Central was conqueredin the return game played in Detroit on the Light GuardArmory floor. The Detroit Y.M.C.A. was the only team outsideof the Chicago Central five that Vv-as able to defeat the crackColumbia University five on its western trip. In the three big games that were played at the Light GuardArmory last winter over twelve hundred people were in attend-
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SPALDINGS OFFICIAL BASKET BALL GUIDE. 29 ance on each occasion. This clearly demonstrated that basketball is popular with the sport-loving public of Detroit, There is probably no city in the country whose newspapershave given basket ball the space and boomed it as have thedailies of Detroit. This has done much to boom the game inthis community and make it a prominent feature in the world ofwinter sports. Basket ball here is generally regarded as the national indoorgame, and in this as well as in other communities where it isfirmly established it is bound to flourish provided it is properlycontrolled, .There is no question but that the physical trainingand the general development gained in playing the game is anexcellent preparatory course for a young man to take before heassumes the mental and physical strains of the strenuous busi-ness life of to-day. Of greater importance still, there is nogame like it to develop self-control, determination, perseveranceand courage, the characterist

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