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{{short description|American college basketball coach}}
{{Other uses|Harry Fisher (disambiguation){{!}}Harry Fisher}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name               = Harry Fisher
| image              = Harry_A_Fisher.jpg
| image_size         = 
| caption            = Fisher from the 1905 ''Spalding Official Collegiate Basketball Guide''
| position           = [[Guard (basketball)|Guard]]
| height_ft          = 5
| height_in          = 9
| weight_lb          = 150
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1882|2|6}}
| birth_place        = [[New York City|New York City, New York]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1967|12|29|1882|2|6}}
| death_place        = New York City, New York, U.S.
| high_school        = {{nowrap|City College (New York City, New York)}}
| college            = [[Columbia Lions men's basketball|Columbia]] (1902–1905)
| cyears1            = 1904–1905
| cteam1             = [[Fordham Rams men's basketball|Fordham]]
| cyears2            = 1906–1907
| cteam2             = [[Army Black Knights men's basketball|Army]]
| cyears3            = 1906–1916
| cteam3             = [[Columbia Lions men's basketball|Columbia]]
| cyears4            = 1909–1910
| cteam4             = [[St. John's Red Storm men's basketball|St. John's]]
| cyears5            = 1921–1923
| cteam5             = Army
| cyears6            = 1924–1925
| cteam6             = Army
| HOF_player         = harry-a-fisher
 |CBBASKHOF_year     = 2006
| highlights         = 
'''As player:'''
* 2× [[Helms Athletic Foundation|Helms national champion]] (1904, 1905)
* Consensus [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1905 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1905]])
'''As coach:'''
* Helms national champion (1910)
* Premo-Porretta national champion (1923)
* 3× EIBL champion (1911, 1912, 1914)
* Helms Hall of Fame (1945)
}}
'''Harold A. Fisher''' (February 6, 1882 – December 29, 1967) was an American [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|college]] [[basketball]] coach from [[New York City|New York City, New York]].

In 1905, while a student and player at [[Columbia University]], Fisher began coaching the basketball team of [[Fordham University]], leading the team to a 4–2 record while capturing [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] honors as a player and leading Columbia to its second straight national championship.

In 1906, Fisher assumed the head coaching duties at Columbia, where he would remain for ten years, during which times his teams amassed a record of 101–39 and won three [[Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League]] titles; in 1909 and 1910, Fisher simultaneously coached Columbia and [[St. John's University, New York|St. John's University]], helping the latter to a 15–5 record during his tenure.

In recognition of his work at Columbia, Fisher was commissioned by [[General Douglas MacArthur]] to coach the basketball team at [[United States Military Academy]] after [[World War I]]. He assumed the job in 1921 and coached three seasons at the school, leaving with a record of 46–5. His [[1922–23 Army Cadets men's basketball team|1922–23 team]] finished the season with a 17–0 record<ref name=SR>{{cite web| title =Army season-by-season results| work =sports-reference.com| publisher =Sports Reference LLC| url =https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/army/| access-date =May 25, 2015}}</ref> and was retroactively named the national champion by the [[Premo-Porretta Power Poll]].<ref>{{cite book|title=ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game|editor-last=ESPN|publisher=ESPN Books|location=New York, NY|year=2009|page=536|ISBN=978-0-345-51392-2}}</ref>

For his work in developing the game of basketball, first as a member of a four-person committee that wrote the first rules for collegiate basketball and the editor of the resulting "Collegiate Rules Committee and Collegiate Guide" (1905–1915), and later as [[athletic director]] at Columbia (1911–1917), Fisher was inducted as a contributor into the [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame|Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 1974.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090831072311/http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/harry-a-fisher Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame profile]
* [https://archive.today/20140827190421/http://www.collegebasketballexperience.com/inductees-by-name?id=517 College Basketball Hall of Fame profile]

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