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ONU team plays first ever basketball game

January 1904 - The first basketball game played by an Ohio Northern team, was against a Kenton team, won by Kenton (score not given). Ohio Northern's team used the old "sheep pen" on the south west corner of the campus, now the Kappa Psi fraternity home (1954)

 

January 1925 - S.M. McCurdy, inventor for the McCurdy Mfg. Co., has placed a new scoring device in the Ada school gymnasium. By pulling a lever, a gong is sounded and every score of the opposing teams is shown. He has applied for a patent on the device.

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