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The 1918–19 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1918-19 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John O'Reilly coached the team in his fifth season as head coach.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Head Coaches )〕 Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at Ryan Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts )〕 and finished the season with a record of 9-1. ==Season recap== On-campus Ryan Gymnasium, where the Hoyas had played their home games since the 1914-15 season, had no seating, accommodating fans on a standing-room only-basis on an indoor track above the court. This precluded the accommodation of significant crowds, providing the self-sustaining Basketball Association with little revenue with which to fund the teams travel expenses, and Georgetown averaged no more than three road games a year from this season through the 1926-27 season in order to keep travel to a minimum.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts )〕〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Ryan Gymnasium Years )〕 The 1918-19 teams only road trip outside of Washington was to Annapolis, Maryland, to play a game at Navy. The Hoyas home winning streak at Ryan Gymnasium reached 17 games at the end of this season, dating back to a victory against Bucknell on the last day of the 1916-17 season; it would reach 52 before finally coming to an end during the 1923-24 season.〔〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1910s Seasons )〕〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1920s Seasons )〕 Georgetown also defeated crosstown rival George Washington twice this season, giving the Hoyas a 10-game winning streak against George Washington – eight of the wins at Ryan Gymnasium – dating back to 1915.〔〔〔 Forward and team captain Fred Fees, a student at Georgetown University Law School, was in his third season with the Hoyas. A free-throw shooting specialist in an era when the rules of college basketball allowed teams to choose which player shot its free throws, Fees had exploited his free-throw prowess to establish himself as one of the top scorers in college basketball in the United States in each of his seasons with the Hoyas. This season he played in all 10 games and scored 163 points, averaging 16.3 points per game.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Best of His Era )〕 Freshman forward Jack Flavin joined the team this season. He played in only six games but scored 54 points, an average of 9.0 points per game. He would become a starter the next season on his way to becoming one of the great Georgetown players of the era.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 82. Jack Flavin )〕 Freshman guard Andrew "Andy" Zazzali also joined the team. He played in all 10 games and averaged 6.2 points per game, and with 62 points was second only to Fees in scoring for the season.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 84. Andrew Zazzali )〕 One of the teams scheduled games was cancelled, and its only loss was at Navy in the third game of the year. It won the last seven games of the season to finish with a 9-1 record. Its .900 winning percentage was the best in Georgetown men's basketball history at the time, but the Hoyas would exceed it the following season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1918–19 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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