title: 1893 in basketball
text: # 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
  