1928–29 Cleveland Rosenblums season

Cleveland Rosenblums American Basketball League (original) 1929 29 13 Dave Kerr (player-coach) Max Rosenblum Max RosenblumNelson Murry R. The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 2009 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 978-0-7864-4006-1, p. 14 Public Hall AuditoriumCLEVELAND ROSENBLUMS - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-05-26 2026-07-05 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/cleveland-rosenblums-2/ 1st (1st half); T–2nd (2nd half) ABL Champions (Won 4–0 over Fort Wayne Hoosiers) yes The 1928–29 Cleveland Rosenblums season was both the Rosenblums' fourth season of existence as a professional franchise (after previously playing by as early as 1919 in an independent basis under the Rosenblum Credits name and sometimes having their team name being shortened down to the Rosieshttp://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=RM2 Rosenblum, Max 11 May 2018 Cleveland Stars Will Play Coffey The Pittsburgh Press March 7, 1919 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u7caAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gkkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2804,2297645&dq=cleveland+rosenblum&hl=en October 3, 2011) and the fourth season of existence for 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. During the offseason, the ABL had entered a crossroads of sorts where the league's popularity was considered to be rather high, but it came at the cost of the Original Celtics dominating the rest of the competition and risked ending the rest of the league due to games featuring the Original Celtics (usually) showcasing high attendance values upon road matches (to the point where some crowds would chant "Break up the Celtics!"Hollander Zander The NBA's Official Encyclopedia of Pro Basketball: Special NBA 35th Anniversary Edition 1981 NAL Books/The New American Library, Inc. 0-453-00407-5, p. 28), but often displaying poor attendance values for the rest of the games in the league by comparison (to the point where only five teams looked certain to enter this season originally).Nelson Murry R. The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball 1999 Bowling Green State University Popular Press 0-87972-793-4, pp. 152–153 Not only that, but the Celtics' own team owner, Jim Furey, would have to go to prison during this upcoming season due to him embezzling $187,000 from a company he worked with in his spare time called the Arnold Constable Corporation.Peterson Robert Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years 1990 Oxford University Press, Inc. 0-19-505310-9, p. 88Nelson Murry R. The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball 1999 Bowling Green State University Popular Press 0-87972-793-4, pp. 121–122 This combination of factors alongside the change of league presidents from NFL president Joseph Carr to former Interstate Basketball League and Metropolitan Basketball League creator and president, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer John J. O'Brien, led to the ABL accepting the wishes of both the fans and other league owners in breaking up the Original Celtics (and having them replaced by the New York Hakoahs for this season by extension) in order to help bolster other ABL teams up for plans of long-term success going forward. In the case of the Cleveland Rosenblums, they would get the bulk of the Original Celtics players joining their team with John "Pete" Barry, Dutch Dehnert, and Joe Lapchick (and later John Beckman) all sticking together out in Cleveland instead of having the Celtics' players be more fairly distributed within the ABL. This would lead to the Rosenblums being the new kings of the ABL for the rest of their existence going forward not long afterward. Entering this season properly, the Rosenblums would end up being one of eight ABL teams competing in the league this season, with this season being the most stable of the league's entire history (at least in terms of its original existence). During the first half of the season, they would be one game ahead of the Fort Wayne Hoosiers to finish that half of the season in first place with an above-average 19–9 record with a chance to become automatic champions if they won the second half of the season soon afterward due to the ABL returning to the split season format that was used in their first two seasons of play. However, the second half of the season would see them tie up with the former MBL team known as the Brooklyn Visitations for a second place spot with an above-average 10–4 record, which saw them both be one game behind the Hoosiers for the first place spot in the second half of the season. This meant that the ABL would see the two best teams of the league this season in the Cleveland Rosenblums and the Fort Wayne Hoosiers compete in a revised ABL championship series that would now be a best-of-seven series instead of a best-of-five series due in part to the league anticipating that the series would be just as competitive for the championship as the two teams were against each other throughout the entire season. Unfortunately for the ABL, the championship series between the two teams would prove to be rather anticlimactic by comparison to the way they performed against each other throughout the season, as the Rosenblums would end up sweeping the Hoosiers in four straight games to return to their championship glory within the ABL once again. As such, it would prove that the Rosenblums were the big dogs of the ABL (once again) following the breaking up of the Original Celtics franchise from this 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.1928 Cleveland Rosenblums basketball Statistics en StatsCrew 2026-08-19 2026-08-19 https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/roster/t-ABLCLR/y-19281928-29 Cleveland Rosenblums (ABL) en peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com Mike Wilk 2026-08-19 https://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2017/12/1928-29-cleveland-rosenblums-abl.html 1928–29 Cleveland Rosenblums #003614 #FFFFFF #e32636 #FFFFFF Pete Barry basketball, born 1896 1 G/F 5 11 170 No college 1896-11-16 John Beckman G/F 5 9 160 St. Gabriel's Catholic School (NY) 1895-10-26 Soup Campbell basketball, born 1904 1 F/C 6 6 200 No college 1904-12-11 Dutch Dehnert G/F 6 0 185 No college 1898-04-05 Rich Deighan 1 C 6 3 200 No college 1900-02-03 Nat Hickey G/F 5 11 190 Hoboken HS (NJ) 1902-01-30 Carl Husta G/F 5 11 175 No college 1902-04-08 Dave Kerr basketball 1 G/F 6 2 195 Central HS (PA) 1896-02-03 Joe Lapchick C 6 5 185 No college 1900-04-12 Pug Mahoney 1 G/F 5 11 180 No college 1909-07-21 Leo Malone 1 F/C 6 3 190 No college 1890-12-12 Hubs McCord 1 G/F 6 0 165 No college 1908-08-26 Tony Schiffer 1 G/F 5 9 160 No college 1905-02-17 Red Skurnick 1 G/F 5 10 Savage School of Physical Education 1904-04-15 Dave Kerr Note: The team's official, final (playing) roster once they entered the ABL championship series included John "Pete" Barry, John Beckman, Dutch Dehnert, Rich Deighan, Carl Husta, Joe Lapchick, and Red Skurnick, with player-coach Dave Kerr taking on the head coach role for the team during the championship series. American Basketball League Standings +First HalfTeamWinsLossesWinning %Cleveland Rosenblums199.679Fort Wayne Hoosiers1810.643Brooklyn Visitations1512.556Chicago Bruins1512.556New York Hakoahs1316.448Trenton (Royal) Bengals1216.429Rochester Centrals1115.423Paterson Whirlwinds619.240 +Second Half TeamWinsLossesWinning %Fort Wayne Hoosiers113.786Cleveland Rosenblums104.714Brooklyn Visitations104.714Rochester Centrals77.500New York Hakoahs59.357Trenton (Royal) Bengals48.333Chicago Bruins410.286Paterson Whirlwinds39.250 American Basketball League Championship Series Cleveland Rosenblums (1st Half Champions) Vs. Fort Wayne Hoosiers (2nd Half Champions): Cleveland Rosenblums win series 4–0 Game 1: March 27, 1929 @ Cleveland: Cleveland Rosenblums 24, Fort Wayne Hoosiers 17 Game 2: March 28, 1929 @ Cleveland: Cleveland Rosenblums 28, Fort Wayne Hoosiers 23 Game 3: March 30, 1929 @ Fort Wayne: Cleveland Rosenblums 19, Fort Wayne Hoosiers 18 Game 4: April 1, 1929 @ Fort Wayne: Cleveland Rosenblums 30, Fort Wayne Hoosiers 22Bradley Grasso Robert John Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia 2003 SPORT Media Publishing, Inc. 1-894963-01-6, p. 411 References Cleveland Rosenblums Cleveland Rosenblums Cleveland Category:American Basketball League (1925–1955) championship seasons Category:Cleveland Rosenblums