1925–26 Detroit Pulaski Post Five season

Detroit Pulaski Detroit Pulaski Post Five American Basketball League (original) 1926 8 22 Tillie Voss (3–3)Bruno Smokiewicz (5–19) Tillie Voss(?)John F. Brobowski(?)B. L. Schulte(?) John F. Brobowski & B. L. Schulte https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-union/202009397/ Fathers Of The Newly Formed American Basketball League The Times-Union June 6, 1925 22 Newspapers.com Light Guard ArmoryDETROIT PULASKI POST - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-05-26 2026-07-05 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/detroit-pulaski-post/ T–6th (1st half); 8th (2nd half) Did not qualify 1 Detroit Lions The 1925–26 Detroit Pulaski Post Five season was the first and only full professional basketball season of play for the Pulaski Post Five team (who sometimes were shortened down to just the Pulaski Post, the Pulaskis, or even just the Pulaski) in the capital city of Detroit, Michigan under the original version of the American Basketball League, which was the first professional basketball league that had truly attempted to go fully national after previous professional basketball leagues were mostly regional at the time. The American Basketball League's inaugural season would have nine teams competing in that season (while a tenth team in East Liverpool, Ohio was intended to join the Detroit squad alongside the other eight teams in question for this season, the East Liverpool team ultimately withdrew operations before the season even began properly,Nelson Murry R. The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball 1999 Bowling Green State University Popular Press 0-87972-793-4, p. 125 with other failed locations that had submitted entries to start the ABL's inaugural season including Baltimore, Maryland (who eventually got their own team the following season); Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and two more locations in the state of Ohio via Columbus and Camden), though the ABL would compete in a split season format with two half seasons being utilized instead of one whole season being utilized throughout the season (which would be the case throughout the majority of the league's existence in the first place). However, by the time the first half of the season ended and the second half of the season began, the Boston Whirlwinds would be expelled from the ABL due to a dispute over player contracts,Bradley Grasso Robert John Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia 2003 SPORT Media Publishing, Inc. 1-894963-01-6, p. 410 which led to the ABL entering the second half of the season with only eight teams remaining in their league this time around. In any case, the first season for the Pulaski Post Five franchise would end up being a poor one for the team, as player-coach Tillie Voss would be let go of after an average 3–3 start to the season and be replaced by a different player-coach in Bruno Smokiewicz for the rest of the season soon afterward. As a result of that move, the first half of the season would see Detroit get a below-average 6–10 record that had them tie both the Boston Whirlwinds (who had been expelled from the league at the end of the first half of the season due to player contract disputes) and the Chicago Bruins for a sixth-place finish that had them be ahead of only the Buffalo Bisons by one game from that half of the season. Unfortunately for the Pulaski Post Five squad, they would end up performing even worse in the second half of the season despite having one less team to worry about for that particular half of the season, as they finished it in dead last place with only two wins on their ends for a 2–12 record to essentially be the worst overall team in the ABL this season. While the Detroit Pulaski Post Five team would end up competing in the ABL for the following season afterward (though they would later change their team name to the Detroit Lions), they would end up facing offseason woes that would end up causing a premature demise to their franchise early on into that upcoming season. Roster Due to information on American Basketball League players being generally hard to find, there are bound to be more gaps and/or inaccuracies found in certain areas on the team's roster spots than usual.1925 Detroit Pulaski Post Five basketball Statistics en StatsCrew 2026-08-21 2026-08-21 https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/roster/t-ABLDEF/y-19251925-26 Detroit Pulaski Post (ABL) en peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com Mike Wilk 2026-08-21 https://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2017/10/1925-26-detroit-pulaski-post-abl.html Player PositionRoy BooseyFArt CartyGTommy ClarkG/FJoe DermodyFGil ElyG/FBruce GregoryFBill HendersonF/CBill JohnsonGJoe KarpusFEddie LynchGBill MurphyGSam SiegelF/CBruno SmokiewiczGAus UngerG/FTillie VossC In addition to them, it was believed that someone named Glen Deitrick was also on the roster at one point in time as well, though he never officially played a single game for the team in the process. American Basketball League Standings +First HalfTeamWinsLossesWinning %Brooklyn Arcadians124.750Washington Palace Five / Laundrymen115.688Cleveland Rosenblums106.625Rochester Centrals97.562Fort Wayne Caseys79.438Detroit Pulaski Post Five610.375Chicago Bruins610.375Boston Whirlwinds×610.375Buffalo Bisons / Germans511.322 × – The Boston Whirlwinds were expelled by the end of the first half of the season due to a dispute over player contracts.https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-union/202009397/ Fathers Of The Newly Formed American Basketball League The Times-Union June 6, 1925 22 Newspapers.comTeam Standings by Year - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-01-26 2026-07-05 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/team-standings-by-year/?y=1925-1926&t=BostonAmerican Basketball League 1925-26 to 1930-31, 1933-34 to 1952-53 www.apbr.org 2026-07-05 https://www.apbr.org/abl2552.html +Second Half TeamWinsLossesWinning %Cleveland Rosenblums131.919Washington Palace Five / Laundrymen113.786Rochester Centrals95.643Brooklyn Arcadians77.500Fort Wayne Caseys68.429Buffalo Bisons / Germans59.357Chicago Bruins311.214Detroit Pulaski Post Five212.143 References Detroit Detroit Pulaski Post Five Detroit Pulaski Post Five