1907–08 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team

The 1907–08 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1907-08 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States college basketball season. Maurice Joyce coached the team in his first season as head coach. Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at the Convention Hall at 5th and K Streets NW in downtown Washington, D.C.

1907–08 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
ConferenceIndependent
Record51
Head coach
  • Maurice Joyce (1st season)
CaptainRichard Downey (1st year)
Home arenaConvention Hall
1907–08 IAAUS men's basketball independents standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Allegheny 120  1.000
Bucknell 120  1.000
Cincinnati 90  1.000
Wabash 240  1.000
Montana State 81  .889
Canisius 61  .857
Lehigh 61  .857
Mount Union 183  .857
Georgetown 51  .833
Illinois State 51  .833
Washington State 123  .800
Dayton 103  .769
Syracuse 103  .769
Army 93  .750
Michigan State 155  .750
Notre Dame 124  .750
Temple 62  .750
Dartmouth 114  .733
Wake Forest 83  .727
Penn State 104  .714
Brigham Young 42  .667
Holy Cross 126  .667
Bradley 95  .643
Ohio 74  .636
Oregon State 74  .636
Fordham 1812  .600
North Dakota State 64  .600
New York University 75  .583
Brown 118  .579
Oklahoma 43  .571
Butler 44  .500
Colorado 66  .500
Idaho 44  .500
Maine 55  .500
Navy 22  .500
Niagara 66  .500
Rhode Island 88  .500
Virginia 55  .500
Colgate 89  .471
Oregon 89  .471
Kentucky 56  .455
Ohio State 56  .455
Manhattan 79  .438
Connecticut 69  .400
Trinity 23  .400
Oklahoma State 23  .400
Wyoming 23  .400
Arizona 12  .333
St. John's (NY) 48  .333
West Virginia 37  .300
Indiana State 26  .250
William & Mary 14  .200
Kansas State 112  .077
Utah State 08  .000
Rankings from AP Poll

Joyce had introduced the new sport of basketball to Washington, D.C., in 1892 the year after its invention by James Naismith and had fostered its development there over the next 15 years as Director of Physical Education at the Carroll Institute. In the autumn of 1906, Georgetown had hired him as its athletic director with an eye toward developing a men's basketball program at the school, and he had founded the program late that year, in time to field Georgetown's first team in the 1906-07 season. That team had had no coach, relying instead on an elected student manager to provide leadership, monitor the team's finances, and schedule games and practices roles now performed by the school's athletic department and coach. For Georgetown's second season in 1907-08, Joyce formally became the team's first head coach, although this did not diminish the role of the student manager, who continued in his duties; rather, the head coach acted as a teacher and faculty advisor, available to provide advice to the players during games rather than lead the team on the court. It was not until the late 1920s that the modern role of the head coach as in-game leader emerged.

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