College Ball.

In the 1930s college basketball was the dominant form of organized basketball. The Depression had sunk the professional American Basketball League (ABL), which had been formed in the 1920s, but it actually revived the college game, which was played mostly in gymnasiums and armories. Those lean years inspired new promotions, one of which was the college doubleheader, such as the games played at Madison Square Garden, the brainchild of sportswriter Ned Irish, who later founded the New York Knickerbockers. Irish brought in big-name universities, mostly from eastern cities. The first intersectional games on 29 December 1934 brought 16,188 fans into the Garden. The games introduced young talent, helped spread the popularity of basketball, and made lots of money. Other cities followed suit in their hometown arenas. On the West Coast, at Stanford, Hank Luisetti was revolutionizing the game with his onehanded jump shot and other innovations...