1906–07 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

The 1906–07 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.

1906–07 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Record	1–10 (0–8 Big Ten)
Head coach	Frank L. Pinckney
Captain	Herbert Juul
Home arena	Kenney Gym
Seasons ← 1905–06 1907–08 →

1906–07 Western Conference men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Chicago	6	–	2		.750			21	–	2		.913
Minnesota	6	–	2		.750			10	–	2		.833
Wisconsin	6	–	2		.750			11	–	3		.786
Purdue	2	–	6		.250			7	–	8		.467
Illinois	0	–	8		.000			1	–	10		.091
Indiana	-	–	-		–			9	–	5		.643
Iowa	-	–	-		–			5	–	5		.500
Northwestern	-	–	-		–			1	–	5		.167
Rankings from AP Poll

Regular season

Frank Loyer Pinckney took over the coaching reins from Elwood Brown for the 1906–1907 season. After a very promising start to the season, where more than 100 student athletes tried out for the team, Pinckney had three freshmen declared ineligible by the Western Conference.^[1] Due to this unfortunate circumstance, the Fighting Illini played the season with a depleted lineup and finished the season with the worst record in the history of the school. The decision to make freshmen ineligible gave Pinckney the same problem Brown had faced one season earlier.^[2]

 

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Roster

1906–07 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Height Weight Year Hometown F Charles Stewart — — Jr New York, New York G Edward Ryan — — Jr Chicago, Illinois F Maurice Dadant — — Sr Hamilton, Illinois G Herb Juul (C) — — Sr Chicago, Illinois C Curtis C. Westfall — — Sr Chicago, Illinois G Thomas E. Thompson — — Fr Williams Bay, Wisconsin G Roy Rennacker — — Fr Winnetka, Illinois G Avery Brundage — — So Chicago, Illinois F Henry Popperfuss — — Fr Tomah, Wisconsin F C. E. Norenberg — — Sr Chicago, Illinois F/C Robert Herman Reische — — So Chicago, Illinois G Roy Clifton Caul — — Jr Chicago, Illinois C William Sommerfield — — So Peoria, Illinois G Joseph Julius Cermack — — Fr Chicago, Illinois	Head coach Frank Loyer Pinckney (University of Illinois) (1st year) Assistant coach(es) Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible (W) Walk-on   Injured   Current redshirt All-Time Illini Rosters Roster

Source^[3]

Schedule

Source^[4]

Date time, TV	Opponent	Result	Record	Site city, state
Non-Conference regular season
12/15/1906* no, no	at Peoria YMCA	W 38-19	1-0	Peoria YMCA  Peoria, IL
1/2/1907* no, no	at Chicago YMCA	L 26–31	1-1	Chicago YMCA  Chicago, IL
Big Ten regular season
1/12/1907 no, no	Purdue	L 27–32	1-2 (0-1)	Kenney Gym  Urbana, IL
1/19/1907 no, no	Wisconsin	L 16–22	1-3 (0-2)	Kenney Gym  Urbana, IL
1/31/1907 no, no	at Minnesota	L 3–42	1-4 (0-3)	University of Minnesota Armory  Minneapolis, MN
2/1/1907 no, no	at Wisconsin	L 13–47	1-5 (0-4)	University of Wisconsin Armory and Gymnasium  Madison, WI
2/2/1907 no, no	at University of Chicago	L 20–53	1-6 (0-5)	Bartlett Gymnasium  Chicago, IL
2/15/1907* no, no	at Wabash College	L 13–50	1-7	Wabash College  Crawfordsville, IN
2/16/1907 no, no	at Purdue	L 18–45	1-8 (0-6)	Lafayette Colliseum  West Lafayette, IN
2/23/1907 no, no	University of Chicago	L 20–35	1-9 (0-7)	Kenney Gym  Urbana, IL
3/1/1907 no, no	Minnesota	L 29–36	1-10 (0-8)	Kenney Gym  Urbana, IL
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Central Time.

Awards and honors

References

1. A Century of Orange and Blue: Celebrating 100 Years of Fighting Illini Basketball By Loren Tate, Jared Gelfond pg.20 ISBN 1-58261-793-7
2. Fighting Illini Basketball: A Hardwood History By News-Gazette, Sports Publishing LLC ISBN 1-58261-356-7
3. FightingIllini.com
4. University of Illinois Fighting Illini Statistics Summary for 1906-07 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, FightingIllini.com