What are the earliest basketball programs?

[scooter729]

I was fortunate enough to just pick up this pictured 1908 Harvard basketball program. It got me wondering what are the earliest basketball programs?

I imagine anything from this time period would be from colleges, but I wasn't having much success finding others from the 1900s in my searches.

Can anyone share any information you may have on other basketball programs from this era (or earlier if possible)?

Thanks!

[Jewish-collector]

Scott,

These schools had basketball games. Plenty of games pre 1900. I do not know what programs were or were not made for their games.


Geneva College - 1893-94 (Played until 1943)
Iowa 1893-94
Hiram - 1894-95 (Played until 1904)
Drexel - 1894-5 (Did not play Div 1 equiv. between 1901 and 1972)
Temple - 1895-1896
Bucknell - 1895-1896
Yale - 1895-1896
Minnesota - 1895-1896
Washington - 1895-1896 (not again until 1888-89)
Notre Dame 1896-1897
Nebraska 1896-1897
Purdue 1896-1897
Penn State 1896-1897
Butler 1896-1897
Pennsylvania - 1896-1897
North Dakota State - 1897-98 (Did not play Div 1 equiv. between 1927 and 2007)
Kansas - 1898-99
Ohio State - 1898-99
Illinois State - 1898-99
Wisconsin - 1898-99
Michigan State - 1898-99
Syracuse - 1898-99
Cornell - 1898-99
Indiana State - 1899-00
Dartmouth - 1899-00
New Mexico - 1899-00
Princeton - 1900-01
Brown - 1900-01
Harvard - 1900-01
Columbia - 1900-01
Lafayette - 1900-01
Vanderbilt - 1900-01
Indiana - 1900-01
Holy Cross - 1900-01
Washington State - 1901-02
Oregon State - 1901-02
Connecticut - 1901-02
Cincinnati - 1901-02
Colgate - 1902-03
Oregon - 1902-03
Colorado - 1902-03
Kentucky - 1903-04
Seton Hall - 1903-04 (but not again until 1908-09)
Northwestern - 1904-05
Arizona - 1904-05
West Virginia - 1904-05
Kansas State - 1905-06
Pittsburgh - 1905-06
Illinois - 1905-06
Auburn - 1905-06
Duke - 1905-06
Georgia - 1905-06
Wake Forest - 1905-06
Virginia - 1905-06
Texas - 1906-07
USC - 1906-07
Missouri - 1906-07
Rutgers - 1906-07
Wichita St. - 1906-07
California - 1907-08
St. John's - 1907-08
Georgetown - 1907-08
Oklahoma - 1908-09
Oklahoma State - 1908-09
Iowa State - 1908-09
North Carolina - 1910-1911
Louisville - 1911-12
North Carolina State - 1912-13
Stanford - 1913-14
Michigan - 1917-1918
UCLA - 1919-20
Florida - 1920-21
Arkansas - 1923-24