Year-by-Year with Carthage Men’s Basketball
J. Arthur Baird, 1907-14
18-41, 8 years
1906-07
0-4
Head Coach: J. Arthur Baird
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 11, 1907 |
Keokuk YMCA |
20 |
30 |
Keokuk, Iowa |
|
Jan. 18, 1907 |
Quincy YMCA |
10 |
36 |
Quincy, Ill. |
|
Jan. 25, 1907 |
Lombard |
14 |
23 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 1, 1907 |
Keokuk H.S. |
--- |
--- |
Keokuk, Iowa |
|
Feb. 8, 1907 |
Keokuk YMCA |
10 |
18 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 15, 1907 |
Illinois College |
--- |
--- |
Jacksonville, Ill. |
|
Feb. 22, 1907 |
Keokuk H.S. |
--- |
--- |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
March 1, 1907 |
Illinois College |
--- |
--- |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
March 8, 1907 |
Monmouth |
--- |
--- |
Monmouth, Ill. |
Carthage’s first men’s basketball game was a 30-20 loss to the Keokuk YMCA team in Keokuk, Iowa, on Jan. 11, 1907. The first home game took place on Jan. 25, 1907, with a 23-14 loss to Lombard College.
1907-08
2-4
Head Coach: J. Arthur Baird
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Dec. 1907 |
Quincy Roanokes |
18 |
25 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Dec. 11, 1908 |
Carthage H.S. |
25 |
18 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 14, 1908 |
Mount Sterling Club |
18 |
51 |
Mount Sterling, Ill. |
|
Jan. 17, 1908 |
Quincy H.S. |
13 |
19 |
Quincy, Ill. |
|
Jan. 24, 1908 |
Lombard |
28 |
70 |
Galesburg, Ill. |
|
Jan. 31, 1908 |
Quincy H.S. |
36 |
19 |
Carthage, Ill. |
1908-09
2-4
Head Coach: J. Arthur Baird
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 8, 1909 |
Carthage Faculty |
--- |
--- |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 15, 1909 |
Quincy H.S. |
25 |
17 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 26, 1909 |
Shurtleff |
21 |
38 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 29, 1909 |
Illinois College |
9 |
44 |
Jacksonville, Ill. |
|
Feb. 5, 1909 |
Quincy H.S. |
18 |
17 |
Quincy, Ill. |
|
Feb. 12, 1909 |
Illinois College |
18 |
34 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 19, 1909 |
Lombard |
21 |
29 |
Carthage, Ill. |
1909-10
1-6
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Dec. 1910 |
Carthage H.S. |
35 |
12 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 14, 1910 |
Illinois College |
18 |
29 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 28, 1910 |
Mount Sterling H.S. |
15 |
20 |
Mount Sterling, Ill. |
|
Feb. 11, 1910 |
William & Vashti |
19 |
48 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 12, 1910 |
Hedding |
--- |
--- |
Abingdon, Ill. |
|
Feb. 16, 1910 |
Shurtleff |
24 |
26 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
March 11, 1910 |
William & Vashti |
20 |
64 |
Aledo, Ill. |
|
|
Hedding |
20 |
46 |
Carthage, Ill. |
1910-11
3-5
Head Coach: J. Arthur Baird
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 6, 1911 |
Carthage H.S. |
32 |
15 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 11, 1911 |
La Harpe Club |
26 |
15 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 13, 1911 |
Illinois College |
18 |
25 |
Jacksonville, Ill. |
|
Jan. 30, 1911 |
Parsons |
23 |
51 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 31, 1911 |
Iowa Wesleyan |
26 |
29 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 10, 1911 |
Western Illinois |
32 |
38 |
Macomb, Ill. |
|
Feb. 16, 1911 |
Shurtleff |
22 |
48 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 24, 1911 |
Western Illinois |
34 |
28 |
Carthage, Ill. |
1911-12
3-5
Head Coach: J. Arthur Baird
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 5, 1912 |
Dallas City Club |
29 |
12 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 12, 1912 |
Illinois College |
11 |
13 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 27, 1912 |
Augustana (Ill.) |
13 |
32 |
Rock Island, Ill. |
|
Feb. 2, 1912 |
Iowa Wesleyan |
21 |
31 |
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa |
|
Feb. 9, 1912 |
Western Illinois |
57 |
16 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 16, 1912 |
Hedding |
23 |
59 |
Abingdon, Ill. |
|
Feb. 22, 1912 |
Western Illinois |
71 |
23 |
Macomb, Ill. |
|
March 2, 1912 |
Hedding |
16 |
23 |
Carthage, Ill. |
From 1912 to 1941, Carthage was a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Association (IIAA) for football, men's basketball, baseball, men's golf and men's track and field. According to former Illinois State University track and field coach Joe Cogdal, the league had its roots in the 1870s when a number of Illinois schools banded together for oratorical contests. The first intercollegiate football game within this association was played in 1881 between Illinois State and Knox College, and a football association was established for the 1894 season.
The IIAA was formed in April 1908 for a May 22 track and field meet with eight charter members, including the Bradley Polytechnic Institute (later Bradley University), Illinois College, Illinois State Normal University (later shortened to Illinois State University), Illinois Wesleyan University, Knox College, Lombard College (now defunct), Millikin University and Monmouth College. By the 1910-11, the league had expanded to 13 teams with the addition of Eureka College, Hedding College (now defunct), Lincoln College, Shurtleff College (now defunct) and William & Vashti College (now defunct).
Four schools were added for the 1912-13 season, including Augustana College (Ill.), Carthage College, Eastern Illinois Normal University (later shortened to Eastern Illinois University) and McKendree College. Southern Illinois Normal University (later re-named Southern Illinois University-Carbondale) became the 18th member during the 1913-14 academic year. Three more schools were added in 1914-15 to boost the membership to 21 schools. Those three were Blackburn College, St. Viator College (now defunct) and Western Illinois Normal University (later shortened to Western Illinois University). William & Vashti closed in 1917 reducing the league to 20 members, but both Knox College and Wheaton College (Ill.) joined the circuit in 1919-20 when the league name was changed to the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Association (IIAC), bringing the membership up to 22 schools.
Somewhere along the line, the IIAC gained the nickname of the Little 19 Conference, even though the membership ranged from the high of 24 in the 1927-28 season schools to just five by the spring of 1942. Blackburn withdrew following the 1923 season, and Hedding College closed in 1926 after being bought out by Illinois Wesleyan. Other schools added to the league in the 1920s included Elmhurst College, Lake Forest College, Mount Morris College (joined in 1920 and now defunct), North Central College and Northern Illinois Normal University (joined in 1922 and later re-named Northern Illinois University).
Conference membership peaked in 1927-28 with 24 members. Lincoln pulled out after 1928 spring season and subsequently shifted from a four-year school to a junior college. Lombard quit after 1929, and the school closed in 1930 and was taken over by Knox College. Mount Morris pulled out following the 1931-32 academic year and closed that year. The conference really began to falter after the 1936-37 season when 12 schools withdrew to form the Illinois College Conference. Those 12 schools were Augustana, Bradley, Illinois College, Illinois Wesleyan, Knox, Lake Forest, McKendree, Millikin, Monmouth, North Central, Shurtleff (closed after the 1952-53 academic year) and Wheaton. St. Viator closed in 1938, and Olivet Nazarene University took over its campus in 1947. Carthage, Elmhurst and Eureka withdrew from the IIAC in December 1941, leaving only five schools: Eastern Illinois, Illinois State, Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois and Western Illinois.
In 1950, the league changed its name from the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Association to the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference when Eastern Michigan University and Central Michigan University brought the membership to seven schools. Eastern Michigan and Southern Illinois both left after the 1961-62 academic year. Eastern Michigan went independent for several years before joining the Presidents’ Athletic Conference for two seasons in 1964-65 and 1965-66. EMI returned to independent status for a time before joining the Mid-American Conference in 1971. EMU did not begin competing in MAC men’s basketball until 1974-75 or in football until 1976.
Southern Illinois also played as an independent for several years before joining the Academic Athletic Conference of Midwestern Universities for two seasons beginning in 1970-71 and 1971-72. SIU returned to independent status for three seasons prior to joining the Missouri Valley Conference for men’s basketball in 1975-76 and for football in 1977. The MVC dropped football as a conference sport in 1985, and SIU became a charter member of the Gateway Football Conference that same year, along with former Little 19 schools Eastern Illinois, Western Illinois and Illinois State.
Northern Illinois left the IIAC for the Mid-American Conference in 1966, dropping the league to four members. The final demise of the IIAC came in 1969 when Illinois State left to join the Academic Athletic Conference of Midwestern Universities. Illinois State is now a member of the Missouri Valley conference. The remaining three IIAC schools disbanded the league at the end of the 1969-70 academic year. Central Michigan joined the Mid-American Conference in 1971. Western Illinois was admitted to the Association of Mid-Continent Universities (AMCU) in 1978-79 after eight years as an independent, and Eastern Illinois joined WIU in the AMCU in 1982-83 after 12 years as an independent. The AMCU changed its name to the Mid-Continent Conference in 1989-90 and to the Summit League in 2007-08.
Among the other IIAC members, seven later helped form the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin. Those seven were Augustana (Ill.), Carthage, Elmhurst, Illinois Wesleyan, Millikin, North Central and Wheaton (Ill.). Bradley is currently a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. Blackburn and Eureka are members of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Illinois College, Knox, Lake Forest and Monmouth are members of the Midwest Conference, although Illinois College and Lake Forest were once part of the CCIW. McKendree is an NAIA affiliate and a member of the American Midwest Conference, and Lincoln is now a two-year school and a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association.
1912-13
4-5, 3-4 IIAC
Head Coach: J. Arthur Baird
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 11, 1913 |
*Illinois College |
19 |
39 |
Jacksonville, Ill. |
|
Jan. 24, 1913 |
Iowa Wesleyan |
28 |
38 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 31, 1913 |
*Augustana (Ill.) |
21 |
44 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 7, 1913 |
*Western Illinois |
56 |
21 |
Macomb, Ill. |
|
Feb. 8, 1913 |
*Hedding |
22 |
48 |
Abingdon, Ill. |
|
Feb. 15, 1913 |
*Hedding |
31 |
26 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 21, 1913 |
*Augustana (Ill.) |
25 |
50 |
Rock Island, Ill. |
|
Feb. 28, 1913 |
Parsons |
38 |
20 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
March 7, 1913 |
*Western Illinois |
90 |
16 |
Carthage, Ill. |
*IIAC game
1913-14
4-8, 0-6 IIAC
Head Coach: J. Arthur Baird
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 17, 1914 |
Carthage High School |
48 |
10 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 23, 1914 |
Christian University |
37 |
14 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 27. 1914 |
Carthage All Stars |
22 |
18 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 31, 1914 |
*Illinois College |
27 |
40 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 7, 1914 |
*Augustana (Ill.) |
7 |
16 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 13, 1914 |
*Eureka |
6 |
19 |
Eureka, Ill. |
|
Feb. 14, 1914 |
*Hedding |
24 |
61 |
Abingdon, Ill. |
|
Feb. 18, 1914 |
*Augustana (Ill.) |
27 |
50 |
Rock Island, Ill. |
|
Feb. 19, 1914 |
*William & Vashti |
13 |
27 |
Aledo, Ill. |
|
Feb. 28, 1914 |
Christian University |
35 |
33 |
Canton, Ill. |
|
March 6, 1914 |
+Western Illinois |
11 |
47 |
Peoria, Ill. |
|
March 7, 1914 |
+Augustana (Ill.) |
24 |
49 |
Peoria, Ill. |
*IIAC game
+IlAC Tournament
Forrest Loudin, 1915-18, 1920-21
21-37, 6 years
1914-15
1-7, 0-4 IIAC
Head Coach: Forrest Loudin
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 15, 1915 |
*Western Illinois |
22 |
30 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 22, 1915 |
Christian University |
25 |
8 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 5, 1915 |
*Western Illinois |
14 |
34 |
Macomb, Ill. |
|
Feb. 6, 1915 |
*Augustana (Ill.) |
26 |
40 |
Rock Island, Ill. |
|
Feb. 11, 1915 |
Christian University |
18 |
30 |
Canton, Ill. |
|
Feb. 26, 1915 |
*Illinois College |
11 |
25 |
Jacksonville, Ill. |
|
March 4, 1915 |
+Shurtleff |
14 |
32 |
Peoria, Ill. |
|
March 5, 1915 |
+William & Vashti |
12 |
48 |
Peoria, Ill. |
*IIAC game
+IlAC Tournament
1915-16
4-6, 1-4 IIAC
Head Coach: Forrest Loudin
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 7, 1916 |
Christian University |
24 |
13 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 13, 1916 |
*Augustana (Ill.) |
7 |
50 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 21, 1916 |
*Illinois College |
17 |
32 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 28, 1916 |
Christian University |
14 |
12 |
Canton, Ill. |
|
Feb. 4, 1916 |
*Western Illinois |
17 |
19 |
Macomb, Ill. |
|
Feb. 11, 1916 |
St. Ambrose |
16 |
14 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 12, 1916 |
*Augustana (Ill.) |
12 |
56 |
Rock Island, Ill. |
|
Feb. 25, 1916 |
*Western Illinois |
30 |
22 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
March 1, 1916 |
+SIU-Carbondale |
9 |
18 |
Bloomington, Ill. |
|
March 2, 1916 |
+Illinois College |
11 |
33 |
Bloomington, Ill. |
*IIAC game
+IIAC Tournament
1916-17
2-11, 0-6 IIAC
Head Coach: Forrest Loudin
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 5, 1917 |
Parsons |
23 |
36 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 12, 1917 |
*Western Illinois |
16 |
21 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Jan. 13, 1917 |
*Illinois College |
10 |
36 |
Jacksonville, Ill. |
|
Jan. 19, 1917 |
Christian University |
30 |
14 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 2, 1917 |
*William & Vashti |
8 |
81 |
Aledo, Ill. |
|
Feb. 3, 1917 |
St. Ambrose |
15 |
34 |
Davenport, Iowa |
|
Feb. 9, 1917 |
*Western Illinois |
19 |
22 |
Macomb, Ill. |
|
Feb. 10, 1917 |
*Hedding |
21 |
34 |
Abingdon, Ill. |
|
Feb. 16, 1917 |
Christian University |
32 |
43 |
Canton, Mo. |
|
Feb. 24, 1917 |
*Hedding |
11 |
36 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
March 1, 1917 |
+SIU-Carbondale |
13 |
33 |
Decatur, Ill. |
|
March 2, 1917 |
+Blackburn |
36 |
22 |
Decatur, Ill. |
|
March 3, 1917 |
+Lincoln |
20 |
25 |
Decatur, Ill. |
*IIAC game
+IlAC Tournament
1917-18
3-0, 2-0 IIAC
(abbreviated season due to World War I)
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Feb. 17, 1918 |
*Western Illinois |
35 |
21 |
Macomb, Ill. |
|
Feb. 14, 1918 |
Iowa Wesleyan |
59 |
18 |
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa |
|
Feb. 19, 1918 |
*Hedding |
53 |
25 |
Carthage, Ill. |
*IIAC game
Verle Teeter, 1919
5-5, 1 year
1918-19
5-5, 5-5
Head Coach: Verle Teeter
|
Date |
Opponent |
CC |
Opp. |
Site |
|
Jan. 18, 1919 |
*Lombard |
18 |
23 |
Galesburg, Ill. |
|
Jan. 25, 1919 |
*Western Illinois |
19 |
6 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 2, 1919 |
*Illinois College |
9 |
8 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 9, 1919 |
*Lombard |
31 |
20 |
Carthage, Ill. |
|
Feb. 14, 1919 |
*Western Illinois |
31 |
17 |
Macomb, Ill. |
|
Feb. 22, 1919 |
*Lombard |
12 |