1893 in basketball
# 1893 in basketball

The following are the basketball events of the year 1893 throughout the world.

## Events

* Clara Gregory Baer introduces basket-ball (as it was written at the time) to Sophie Newcomb College (now part of Tulane University)
* February 7 – Vanderbilt University plays against the local YMCA in Nashville, Tennessee – the first recorded instance of a college basketball team facing an outside opponent.
* April 8 – In the second recorded instance of an organized college basketball game, Geneva College faces the New Brighton YMCA in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

## Births

* Birch Bayh (basketball coach), coach
* Benjamin Van Alstyne, coach
* William Reid (basketball), coach
* Clarence Applegran, coach
* Wilmer D. Elfrink, coach and player
* Norman C. Paine, coach
