1941–42 Sheboygan Red Skins season

NBL professional basketball team season Sheboygan Red Skins NBL 1942 10 14 5 Frank Zummach Eagles Auditorium Did not qualify The 1941–42 Sheboygan Red Skins season was the Red Skins' fourth year in the United States' National Basketball League (NBL), which would also be the fifth year the NBL itself existed. NBL Season Index basketball-reference.com Sports Reference LLC https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/seasons/ October 12, 2019 However, if one were to include their few seasons they played as an independent team under a few various team names involving local businesses like the The Ballhorns (being sponsored by a local florist and funeral parlor), the Art Imigs (being sponsored by a local dry cleaning shop owned and operated by a man named Art Imig with team jerseys saying Art Imig's), and the Enzo Jels (being sponsored by a local gelatin manufacturer known as Enzo-Pac) at various points before becoming the Sheboygan Red Skins due to their promotion up into the NBL, this would officially be their ninth overall season of play as well. For the second straight season in a row, the NBL would be without divisions altogether, as they would still be with only seven teams competing in the league, but they saw the Indianapolis Kautskys return to the NBL after leaving for a year to experiment as a barnstorming team and the additions of both the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (who would later continue competing in the present day as the Detroit Pistons in the NBA) and the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets (formerly known as the Toledo White Huts) replacing the losses of the Akron Firestone Non-Skids (the NBL's first repeating champions of the league), the Hammond Ciesar All-Americans and the Detroit Eagles, the last of whom had only recently won the 1941 World Professional Basketball Tournament as the first ever NBL team to win that event after it had previously been won by the New York Renaissance and the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters in the previous two events beforehand. 1941–42 NBL Season Summary basketball-reference.com Sports Reference LLC https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/seasons/1942.html October 12, 2019 The Red Skins played their home games at the Eagles Auditorium, which would be the last season they would do so. Sheboygan Red Skins → 1941–1942 Pro Basketball Encyclopedia https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/team-standings-by-year/?y=1941-1942&t=Sheboygan%20Red%20Skins October 12, 2019 Early on in this season, Sheboygan would start this season rather poorly after having a victory against the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots to start out another NBL season of theirs in November. By the end of December to finish the 1941 year, the Red Skins would end up having a 2–6 record, which included them being the last team to officially lose to the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets (a team that only won three total games, including a forfeited game by the Chicago Bruins and a game won during the Attack on Pearl Harbor over the Indianapolis Kautskys) and Sheboygan getting revenge for that by defeating Toledo on Christmas Day for their last game of the month. By January and early February, Sheboygan would look like a team that was trying to get a surprising last minute spot in the NBL Playoffs over teams like the Indianapolis Kautskys, with the Red Skins having 8–9 and then 9–10 records by the middle of February. However, Sheboygan would only win one more game against Toledo out of the final five games played that season to conclude this season with a 10–14 record, which led to them getting a fifth-place finish and automatically being eliminated from playoff contention this season. Following this season's end, Frank Zummach would be fired as the team's head coach going forward. Despite their disappointing conclusion to the season, Sheboygan would still see center Ed Dancker be named a member of the All-NBL Second Team by the end of this season. Roster 1941–42 Sheboygan Red Skins #C41E3A #FFFFFF #FFFFFF #C41E3A Thermon Blacklidge F 6 3 185 Delta State 1920–03–19 Ed Dancker C 6 7 200 South Division HS (WI) 1914–03–14 Charlie Epperson F 6 2 180 Wisconsin 1919–06–16 George Hesik F/C 6 2 195 Marquette 1913–06–15 Rube Lautenschlager G/F 6 2 190 UW–Oshkosh 1915–09–07 Paul Maki G 6 1 175 Minnesota 1918–02–01 Bill McDonald basketball G/F 6 3 190 Marquette 1916–11–05 Paul Sokody F 6 2 170 Marquette 1914–08–18 Ken Suesens G 6 1 175 Iowa 1916–10–23 Jack Thornton basketball F/C 6 5 200 Texas Wesleyan 1914–08–31 Babe Ziegenhorn G/F 6 0 185 Notre Dame 1918–11–21 Frank Zummach https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/teams/SHR/1942.html Peach Basket Society: 1941-42 Sheboygan Redskins (NBL) https://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2015/12/blog-post.html Peach Basket Society 26 March 2026 2 December 20151941-42 Sheboygan Red Skins basketball Statistics on StatsCrew.com https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/stats/t-SHE/y-1941 StatsCrew.com 26 March 2026 Regular season Season standings NBL Schedule Reference:1941-42 NBL Game-by-Game Results - apbr.org https://www.apbr.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4629 www.apbr.org # Date Opponent Score Record 1 November 27 Akron 37–34 1–0 2 December 4 Chicago 38–51 1–1 3 December 6 @ Oshkosh 30–52 1–2 4 December 11 Oshkosh 45–47 1–3 5 December 14 @ Toledo 34–41 1–4 6 December 16 @ Fort Wayne 35–50 1–5 7 December 17 @ Indianapolis 31–64 1–6 8 December 25 Toledo 42–28 2–6 9 January 4 Indianapolis 32–30 (OT) 3–6 10 January 15 Akron 42–33 4–6 11 January 22 Oshkosh 32–34 4–7 12 January 24 @ Akron 45–44 5–7 13 January 26 @ Indianapolis 31–36 5–8 14 January 28 @ Chicago 40–39 6–8 15 January 29 Fort Wayne 44–49 (OT) 6–9 16 February 5 Chicago 45–40 (OT) 7–9 17 February 8 Indianapolis 34–25 8–9 18 February 10 @ Sheboygan 40–62 8–10 19 February 12 Toledo 67–38 9–10 20 February 15 Fort Wayne 38–40 9–11 21 February 18 @ Chicago 36–40 9–12 22 February 19 Toledo 43–41 10–12 23 February 21 @ Akron 42–55 10–13 24 February 23 @ Fort Wayne 39–46 10–14 Awards and honors Second Team All-NBL – Ed Dancker NBL All-Time Team – Ed Danckerhttp://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/6925/nbl.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050818001517/http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/6925/nbl.html 2005-08-18 Steve Dimitry's NBL Web Site World Professional Basketball Tournament For the fourth year in a row, the Sheboygan Red Skins would participate in the annual World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago, which the 1942 event was held on March 8–12, 1942 and was mostly held by independently ran teams (including military operated teams) alongside every NBL team from this season outside of the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots (with the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets returning to their original Toledo White Huts name) due in part to World War II. For the first round, Sheboygan would go up against the Columbus Bobb Chevrolets, who had Red Foster as their best player that round with future high school coach Neal Mosser being the only other notable player from that team.COLUMBUS BOBB CHEVROLETS https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/columbus-bobb-chevrolets/ Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 26 March 2026NEAL MOSSER https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/neal-mosser/ Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 26 March 2026 The Red Skins would end up defeating the short-lived Columbus roster 34–26 in order to move on into the quarterfinal round of the series. Unfortunately for Sheboygan, their next opponent would be the world famous (all-black) Harlem Globetrotters, which would be the same team that originally defeated them in the third place consolation prize game in the inaugural 1939 World Professional Basketball Tournament. Similar to that third place consolation prize game, the Globetrotters would utilize the usual comedic chicannery that they would be known for throughout the match to defeat the Red Skins in another close match, this time seeing Harlem defeating Sheboygan with a 37–32 final score to eliminate Sheboygan in the quarterfinal round with Roosie Hudson scoring 12 points and Bernie Price putting up 11 points for the Globetrotters, while Paul Sokody scored 11 points for the Red Skins.Nelson Murry R. The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 2009 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 978-0-7864-4006-1, p. 109 The world famous Harlem Globetrotters would later be eliminated in the semifinal round by the two-time NBL champions in the Oshkosh All-Stars (who later became the WPBT champions this time around following their championship rematch victory over the now-independently ran Detroit Eagles), with Harlem also losing their third place consolation prize round game to the Long Island Grumman Flyers team that was manned by players that played for both the rivaling American Basketball League and the all-black New York Renaissance who worked for Grumman as a way to avoid being called up for U.S. military service during World War II due to them helping out the war industry at the time. Games Won first round (34–26) to the Columbus Bobb Chevrolets. Lost quarterfinal round (32–37) to the Harlem Globetrotters. 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