The 1908–09 Chicago Maroons men's basketball team represented the University of Chicago in intercollegiate basketball during the 1908–09 season. The team finished the season with a 12–0 record and won the Western Conference. The team was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and was retroactively listed as the top team of the season by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. This was the third consecutive season for which Chicago was later named the Helms national champion. The team played their home games on campus at Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium.
Both Pat Page and John Schommer were named All-Americans, while Schommer was also named the Helms Foundation National Player of the Year. For Schommer, it was his fourth consecutive All-American honor; for Page, it was his second (the following season, he would earn his third and also be named the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year).
Roster PlayerPositionClassHometownJoy Reichelt ClarkGuardSophomoreOmaha, NEAlfred Crenshaw Kelly, Jr.GuardSophomoreEwing, ILEdwin Powell HubbleForwardJuniorMarshfield, MOHarlan "Pat" PageGuardJuniorChicago, IllinoisArthur Charles HoffmanGuardJuniorChicago, IllinoisWilliam Matthias Georgen, captainForwardSeniorBelvidere, ILJohn Joseph SchommerCenterSeniorChicago, IL Head coach: Joseph Raycroft (3rd year at Chicago)
Schedule Source, The Cap and Gown
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Cap and Gown 1909
Awards and honors John Schommer Helms Foundation National Player of the Year All-American Pat Page All-American
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