| This group--Auburn's first official varsity basketball team--won
three games, including victories over Georgia Tech and Tulane; lost by
two points to the Columbus (Georgia) All-Stars; and tied the Birmingham
Athletic Club, 14-14. The year was 1906 and football coach Mike Donahue
also coached the basketball team. Under Donahue, basketball practice
was a contact sport. "He never bothered calling fouls--said it slowed
up the game," Charles W. Woodruff, a player on the first team, told the
Alumnews fifty years later. Left to right, front row: Dee Gibson,
Seymour Hall, Donahue Bob Ware. Back row: Bill Hardie, Bill Lacey,
Frank Jones, Henry Whitaker, Charles W. Whitaker. -- Photo: AU Special
Collections |
