1938–39 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team

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1938–39 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
Eastern Intercollegiate Conference
Regular Season Co-Champions
ConferenceEastern Intercollegiate Conference
Record13–9 (6-4 EIC)
Head coach
CaptainJoe Murphy (1st year)
Home arenaTech Gymnasium
Seasons
1938–39 Eastern Intercollegiate Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Carnegie Tech
 6 – 4   .600 12 – 7   .632
Georgetown 6 – 4   .600 13 – 9   .591
Penn State 5 – 5   .500 13 – 10   .565
Pittsburgh 5 – 5   .500 10 – 8   .556
West Virginia 4 – 6   .400 10 – 9   .526
Temple 4 – 6   .400 10 – 12   .455

The 1938–39 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented

McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C.[3]
The team finished as conference co-champion, with a record of 6-4 in the EIC and 13-9 overall. It had no postseason play.

Season recap

Senior

Penn State. He finished the season averaging a career-high 8.9 points per game. Over his career, he was the second-highest scoring Georgetown player of the 1930s and fifth-highest in school history at the time. He had scored in double figures in 17 of the 65 games of his three-year college varsity career.[4]

Junior forward John Schmitt scored 12 points in an upset of West Virginia in an EIC game. His season ended when he broke his leg during the game at Yale.[5]

Georgetown finished with an overall record of 13-9, the most wins by a Georgetown team since the

Carnegie Tech.[6]
Although the EIC never held a postseason conference tournament, in previous seasons when the regular season had ended in a first-place tie it had held a single postseason playoff game between the two first-place teams to determine the conference championship. This season, however, no such playoff game took place, and Georgetown and Carnegie Tech settled for the only co-championship in EIC history.

Although the Associated Press described the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference as "one of the best in the nation,"[7] its members agreed to disband it at the end of the season because geographical problems had made scheduling difficult.[7] Georgetown's overall conference record during its seven-year membership was 27-39.

At the end of the season, Georgetown thus became an independent again for the first time since the 1931-32 season. In 1939-40, the Hoyas would play their first of 38 seasons as an independent before becoming a founding member of the original Big East Conference in the 1979-1980 season.

Roster

Sources[4][8][9]

Junior

guard Francis "Reds" Daly was killed in action in the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 22, 1945, during World War II military service.[10]

# Name Height Weight (lbs.) Position Class Hometown Previous Team(s)
3 Joe Murphy 6'0" N/A
F
 Sr.
West New York, NJ, U.S.
 Memorial HS
10 Joe McFadden N/A N/A
G
 So. N/A N/A
12 Jim Giebel N/A N/A
G
 So.
Bethesda, MD, U.S.
Washington, DC
)
13 George Pajak 6'0" N/A
F
 So.
Ware, MA, U.S.
 Ware HS
20 Irv Rizzi N/A N/A
G
 So.
West New York, NJ, U.S.
 Memorial HS
24 Al Matuza 6'2" N/A
F
 So.
Shenandoah, PA, U.S.
 Shenandoah HS
53 Ed Kurtyka N/A N/A
G
 Sr.
Washington, DC, U.S.
 Eastern HS
60 Francis "Reds" Daly 6'3" N/A
G
 Jr.
Washington, DC, U.S.
McKinley Technical HS
80 John Schmitt 5'11" N/A
F
 Jr.
Syracuse, NY, U.S.
New York, NY
)
N/A Harry Leber N/A N/A
G
 Sr. N/A N/A
N/A John McGowan N/A N/A C N/A N/A N/A
N/A John Riches N/A N/A
G
 Sr. N/A N/A

1938–39 schedule and results

Sources[11][12][13][14]

Date
time, TV 		Opponent Result Record Site
city, state
Regular Season
Thu., Dec. 8, 1938*
no, no
Western Maryland
 		W 46–23  1-0
Washington, DC
Tue., Dec. 13, 1938*
no, no 		Loyola Maryland W 36–34  2-0
 Tech Gymnasium 
Washington, DC
Thu., Dec. 15, 1938*
no, no 		at American W 51–35  3-0
 Clendenen Gymnasium 
Washington, DC
Wed., Jan. 4, 1939*
no, no 		at New York University W 27–25  4-0
New York, NY
Mon., Jan. 9, 1938
no, no 		Temple W 36–28  5-0
(1-0) 		Tech Gymnasium 
Washington, D.C.
Fri, Jan. 13, 1939
no, no 		at 
Carnegie Tech
 		L 34–37  5-1
(1-1)
Pittsburgh, PA
Sat., Jan. 14, 1938
no, no 		at West Virginia W 37–31  6-1
(2-1)
Morgantown, WV
Thu., Jan. 19, 1939*
no, no 		at Loyola Maryland W 39–30  7-1
Baltimore, MD
Fri., Jan. 27, 1939*
no, no 		at New York University L 43–45  7-2
 102nd Regiment Armory 
New York, NY
Sat., Jan. 28, 1939*
no, no 		at Syracuse L 43–45  7-3
Syracuse, NY
Tue., Jan. 31, 1939*
no, no 		at Fordham L 34–43  7-4
Bronx, NY
Wed, Feb. 1, 1939*
no, no 		at Army L 17–36  7-5
West Point, NY
Mon., Feb. 6, 1939
no, no 		West Virginia W 40–32  8-5
(3-1) 		Tech Gymnasium 
Washington, DC
Wed., Feb. 8, 1939*
no, no 		at Maryland W 39–25  9-5
College Park, MD
Sat., Feb. 11, 1939
no, no 		at 
Penn State
 		W 32–21  10-5
(4-1)
State College, PA
Mon., Feb. 13, 1939
no, no 		at Pittsburgh L 41–43  10-6
(4-2)
Pitt Pavilion
 
Pittsburgh, PA
Thu., Feb. 16, 1939
no, no 		Carnegie Tech W 45–41 OT 11-6
(5-2) 		Tech Gymnasium 
Washington, DC
Fri., Feb. 24, 1939
no, no 		at Temple L 25–32  11-7
(5-3)
Philadelphia, PA
Sat., Feb. 25, 1939*
no, no 		at Yale W 20–19  12-7
New Haven, CT
Wed., Mar. 1, 1939
no, no 		Penn State W 42–29  13-7
(6-3) 		Tech Gymnasium 
Washington, DC
Sat., Mar. 4, 1939
no, no 		Pittsburgh L 39–44  13-8
(6-4) 		Tech Gymnasium 
Washington, DC
Tue., Mar. 7, 1939*
no, no
George Washington
 		L 26–36  13-9
 Tech Gymnasium 
Washington, DC
*Non-conference game. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

References

  1. ^ sports-reference.com 1938-39 Eastern Intercollegiate Conference Season Summary
  2. ^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Head Coaches". Archived from the original on May 27, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  3. ^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts
  4. ^ a b The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 92. Joe Murphy
  5. ^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Prepared For Life". Archived from the original on March 2, 2014. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
  6. ^ sports-reference.com 1938-39 Eastern Intercollegiate Conference Season Summary
  7. ^ a b College Hoopedia: 1938-39
  8. ^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1930-31 to 1939-1940". Archived from the original on February 12, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  9. ^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Player Directory: Jersey Numbers
  10. ^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Wartime
  11. ^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1930s Seasons
  12. ^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Records vs. All Opponents". Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  13. ^ sports-reference.com 1938-39 Georgetown Hoyas Schedule and Results
  14. ^ 2012-2013 Georgetown Men's Basketball Media Guide, p. 59.
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