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Hammond Calumet Buccaneers
The Hammond Calumet Buccaneers were a professional team of basketball that competed in the National Basketball League for only the 1948–49 season. They were based in Hammond, Indiana, and played in the Hammond Civic Center for home games. The team ranked third in the Eastern Division, and was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Syracuse Nationals. After losing their playoff series to the Nationals, the Calumet Buccaneers would join the Oshkosh All-Stars and Dayton Rens (an all-black team) as the only NBL teams not to join the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in their merger to become the NBA. While the Rens didn't do a dispersal draft of their players due to racial segregation and the All-Stars initially diverted their players into an original Wisconsin-based NBA team out in either Milwaukee (before the existence of the Milwaukee Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks) or Green Bay before later forcing their players into a dispersal draft into the now-NBA's teams, Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Basketball League (United States)
The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional basketball league in the United States. Established in 1935 as the Midwest Basketball Conference, it changed its name to the NBL in 1937. After the 1948–49 season, its twelfth, it merged with the Basketball Association of America (BAA) to form the National Basketball Association (NBA). Five current NBA teams trace their history back to the NBL: the Atlanta Hawks, the Detroit Pistons, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Sacramento Kings. History The league was initially founded as the Midwest Basketball Conference (MBC) in 1935. It changed its name in 1937 in an attempt to attract a larger audience and avoid confusion with the Big Ten Conference, often referred to as the Midwest Conference. The league was created by three corporations: General Electric, Firestone and Goodyear. It was primarily made up of Great Lakes area small-market and corporate teams. The league began rather informally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Glamack
George Gregory Glamack (born Gjuro Gregorvitch Glamoclij, June 7, 1919 – March 10, 1987) was an American professional basketball player. Amateur career Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he was of Serbian origin. His parents were immigrants from Belgrade; his father was a mechanic in a steel mill. Glamack attended Greater Johnstown High School and Allentown Preparatory School. A 6'6" forward-center, Glamack attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose basketball team was known as the White Phantoms. Glamack, an All-American in 1940 and 1941, was nicknamed the Blind Bomber because a childhood football injury had left him blind in his right eye and with blurry vision in his left, forcing him to rely on the lines drawn on the court to determine his positioning when shooting. One writer noted that "Glamack, who is ambidextrous when on the court, is also so nearsighted that the ball is merely a dim object, but apparently he never looked where he was shooting, dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Clubs And Teams Disestablished In 1949
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball Teams Established In 1948
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammond Calumet Buccaneers
The Hammond Calumet Buccaneers were a professional team of basketball that competed in the National Basketball League for only the 1948–49 season. They were based in Hammond, Indiana, and played in the Hammond Civic Center for home games. The team ranked third in the Eastern Division, and was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Syracuse Nationals. After losing their playoff series to the Nationals, the Calumet Buccaneers would join the Oshkosh All-Stars and Dayton Rens (an all-black team) as the only NBL teams not to join the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in their merger to become the NBA. While the Rens didn't do a dispersal draft of their players due to racial segregation and the All-Stars initially diverted their players into an original Wisconsin-based NBA team out in either Milwaukee (before the existence of the Milwaukee Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks) or Green Bay before later forcing their players into a dispersal draft into the now-NBA's teams, Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterloo Hawks
The Waterloo Hawks were a National Basketball League and National Basketball Association team based in Waterloo, Iowa. The Hawks remain the only sports franchise ever based in Iowa from any of the current Big Four Leagues. They are not affiliated with or have any relation to the fellow NBA team then-known as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, who are presently the Atlanta Hawks. Franchise history The Waterloo Hawks were founded in 1948, playing in the National Basketball League. In 1949, the National Basketball League was absorbed by its rival, the Basketball Association of America, forming the National Basketball Association; the Hawks were thus a founding member of the NBA. When the Hawks joined the NBA properly, their roster consisted of players that previously played for the Hammond Calumet Buccaneers in the previous and final season of the NBL. In the 1949–1950 season, their first and only one in the NBA, they finished 19–43, fifth out of six in the Western Division. The W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Wager
Clinton Belmar Wager (January 20, 1920 – February 29, 1996) was a professional football and basketball player. He played in the National Football League from 1942 to 1945 for the Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals and the Cardinals-Pittsburgh Steelers merged team, "Card-Pitt". However, he also played in the National Basketball Association in 1949–50 for the Fort Wayne Pistons (now called the Detroit Pistons). He also played in the National Basketball League for the Oshkosh All-Stars and Hammond Calumet Buccaneers, while finishing his career with the Louisville Alumnites of the National Professional Basketball League. College career Prior to his professional career, Wager played basketball for Saint Mary's University. During his college career, he was an all-conference center and an individual scoring champion twice, in 1939 and 1940. He also participated in the 1941 National Invitational Tournament The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is an annual men's college basket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chips Sobek
George Edward "Chips" Sobek (February 10, 1920 – April 9, 1990) was a player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played with the Sheboygan Red Skins during the 1949-50 NBA season. Sobek had also played in the National Basketball League, most notably for the Toledo Jeeps. A native of Hammond, Indiana, Sobek attended Notre Dame, where he earned All-American status in 1941, as chosen by Madison Square Garden, although he did not make the consensus team. After graduating from Notre Dame, he would also play a season with the Naval Station Great Lakes while under service with them. Sobek also played professional baseball, spending three years in the minor leagues. With the 1946 Superior Blues, he led Northern League second basemen in fielding percentage (.964), double plays (61), putouts (353) and assists (322). He hit .308/~.368/.371. In 1948, he hit .297 for the Hot Springs Bathers and had a brief tenure with the Waterloo White Hawks. In 1949, he hit .244 for Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne See
Marshall Wayne See (November 3, 1923 – July 22, 2019) was an American professional basketball player. He played in 1949–50 for the Waterloo Hawks during their only season in the National Basketball Association and scored 320 points for Waterloo. See was the first professional basketball player to come out of Northern Arizona University Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public research university based in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1899, it was the third and final university established in the Arizona Territory. It is one of the three universities gove .... ''Wayne See (Basketball)''. Retrieved on August 22, 2014. Career statistics NBA SourceRegular season References |
Ollie Shoaff
Oliver Richard Shoaff (November 10, 1923 – October 5, 2001) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League for the Detroit Vagabond Kings and the Hammond Calumet Buccaneers during the 1948–49 season and averaged 8.4 points per game. References 1923 births 2001 deaths American men's basketball players United States Army personnel of World War II Basketball players from Illinois Detroit Vagabond Kings players Guards (basketball) Hammond Calumet Buccaneers players High school baseball coaches in the United States High school basketball coaches in the United States Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball players People from Mount Carmel, Illinois Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball players 20th-century American sportsmen {{1920s-US-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Phelan (basketball, Born 1925)
John or Jack Phelan may refer to: * John J. Phelan (1851–1936), Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus and Secretary of the State of Connecticut * John J. Phelan (boxing) (1872–1946), American boxing commissioner and military officer who served as chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission and was a Major General in the New York Army National Guard. * John J. Phelan Jr. (1931–2012), American financier who served as president and later chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange *John Paul Phelan (born 1978), Irish Fine Gael politician * John Leddy Phelan (1924–1976), Beveridge Award-winning author of ''The People and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781'' * John Dennis Phelan (1809–1879), jurist and politician in the southern United States * Jack Phelan (basketball, born 1925) (1925–2021), American professional basketball player for the Waterloo Hawks and Sheboygan Red Skins * Jack Phelan (basketball, born 1954) (1954–2020), Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Patrick
Stanley Augustus Patrick (May 5, 1922 – January 1, 2000) was an American National Basketball Association player. Patrick played collegiate basketball at Santa Clara University before World War II. His roommate at Santa Clara was future Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt. After the advent of World War II, Patrick returned to the University of Illinois. He played with the Waterloo Hawks and Sheboygan Red Skins during the 1949–50 NBA season The 1949–50 NBA season was the fourth season of the National Basketball Association. It was the first season after the merger of the 3-year-old BAA and 12-year-old NBL. The 1950 NBA playoffs ended with the Minneapolis Lakers winning the NBA .... Patrick had also played in the National Basketball League (NBL), and was named Rookie of the Year for the 1945–46 season. Career statistics NBA Source Regular season Playoffs References 1922 births 2000 deaths American men's basketball players Basketball players from Chica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
