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The Amateur Athletic Union Tournament is the annual American amateur basketball championship series for Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) teams. [1] It started in 1897 and has continued until present. Most finals have been played in a single final format, apart from some occasions that the winner's tournament had been decided by a round robin format.
The Amateur Athletic Association is an amateur basketball league that was created in 1897. It hosts the annual AAU National Tournament. [ 1] All players participating have to be amateurs. During the 1960s players who left college before the formation of the American Basketball League and American Basketball Association had three options: the ...
In 1897, the AAU held its first national men's basketball championship. The winner was the 23rd Street YMCA from New York City. The first AAU women's basketball tournament was held in April 1926 at the Los Angeles Athletics Club. The Pasadena Athletic & Country Club Flying Rings were crowned the champions.
The sixth-grade team beat the Schenectady Envy, 62-50 in the championship game. Rye's Colin Swartz was named tournament MVP and was placed on the all-tournament first team.
The team won 11 national championships at the AAU National Tournament between 1940 and 1963, including six consecutive AAU tournament titles, from 1943 to 1948. In 1948, the 66ers combined with Adolph Rupp 's "Fabulous Five" University of Kentucky team to form the U.S. team that won the Olympic basketball tournament .
Gradually, basketball became part of the employee activities program and the team would create its basketball section in 1937. The team's would change soon to Caterpillar Diesels. The Caterpillar team won five AAU national championships from 1952 to 1960 and was the first team in the Cold War era (1958) to tour the USSR where they went undefeated.
The Amateur Athletic Union Men's Basketball All-Americans were players who competed in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) between 1920–21 and 1967–68 and were chosen as the best players in the league during their respective seasons. [ 1] Founded in 1888, the Amateur Athletic Union is one of the largest non-profit, volunteer, sports ...
The overnight success by the basketball teams at Wichita Independent is dispelling the notion that summer AAU club coaches would struggle to translate their success to the Kansas high school ...