1932–33 Akron Firestone Non-Skids season

NPBL professional basketball team champion season Akron Firestone Non-Skids National Professional Basketball League yes yes 1933 10 1 Firestone 1 Paul Sheeks Firestone Clubhouse NPBL Champions (Won 3–0 over Toledo Crimson Coaches Tobaccos) 1 1936 The 1932–33 Akron Firestone Non-Skids season was the Firestone Non-Skids' first season of existence as a franchise, as well as their only season in the National Professional Basketball League (NPBL), a short-lived professional basketball league of sorts that could be seen as the precursor of both the Midwest Basketball Conference (MBC) and the National Basketball League (NBL), with the latter league eventually merging operations in 1949 with the younger, rivaling Basketball Association of America (BAA) to become the National Basketball Association (NBA).Nelson Murry R. The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 2009 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 978-0-7864-4006-1, p. 14 Entering this season, the Firestone Non-Skids would join the inner city rivaling Akron Goodyear Wingfoots and the Indianapolis Kautskys team that was owned by Frank Kautsky as three of the nine incoming teams to create that new league (with two of the teams presumably being former American Basketball League under rebranded names in the Fort Wayne Chiefs and the Toledo Crimson Coaches Tobaccos). (Interestingly, Firestone's team was considered one-half of the Akron, Ohio representatives that were interested in joining this league at a time when the initial final attempt for creating the NPBL for this season had representatives in Fort Wayne, Indiana within that state's Anthony Wayne Hotel being joined by representatives in Chicago, Illinois and other Ohio locations beyond just their home area with Canton, Cleveland, Dayton, and Toledo meeting at the time for an eight-team league before eventually deciding to be a combined Indiana-Ohio nine-team league there.Pro Cage Loop Moguls Will Discuss Plans https://books.google.com/books?id=uOxXAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA10 1 April 2024 The Toledo News-Bee November 14, 1932) Unfortunately for the rest of the league, four of the teams created would end up folding operations throughout the season for one reason or another, with the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots playing in only six games this year. For the Firestone Non-Skids, they would lose only one game to miss out on having a perfect record for their season, though the Firestone squad finished with a 10–1 record for a first place and later ending with a 3–0 championship sweep over the Toledo Crimson Coaches Tobaccos (a team that previously played in the 1929 version of the NPBL and won that championship as the Toledo Red Man Tobaccos) for the only complete season in that version of the NPBL. After a few years of independent play, head coach Paul Sheeks alongside Frank Kautsky of the Indianapolis Kautskys would help create the Midwest Basketball Conference with mostly new teams being added to help succeed the original version of the NPBL that Akron and Indianapolis had played under. Roster Due to information on National Professional 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.AKRON FIRESTONES https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/akron-firestones-2/ Pro Basketball Encyclopedia Akron Firestone Non-Skids 1932–33 #092c57 #ffc322 #ffc322 #092c57 Merle Alexander F/C 6 6 185 Franklin (IN) 1907–09–02 Bill Brandy G 6 0 180 Heidelberg College 1909–07–23 Donald Burdette G/F 5 11 170 Wabash College 1902–12–31 Roy "Goose" Burris G 5 10 150 Indiana Normal 1901–04–12 Shang Chadwick F/C 6 5 220 Wabash College 1901–06–09 Cookie Cunningham F 6 3 200 Ohio State 1905–02–04 Ray Dickerson G 6 0 165 Northeastern State 1908–06–15 Bill Reeves basketball G 5 10 165 Central Normal (IN) 1904–12–05 Ginger Reeves G/F 5 11 185 Central Normal (IN) 1906–06–28 Slim Shoun C 6 11 210 Carson-Newman 1904–10–04 Paul Sheeks NPBL Standings Pos. Team Wins Losses Win % 1 Akron Firestone Non-Skids 10 1 .909 2 Toledo Crimson Coaches Tobaccos 8 4 .667 3 Indianapolis Kautskys 7 4 .636 4 Akron Goodyear Wingfoots 2 4 .333 5 Fort Wayne Chiefs 4 9 .308 6 Kokomo Kelts† 2 3 .400 7 Muncie Whys† 1 4 .200 8 South Bend Guardsmen† 1 5 .167 9 Lorain Fisher Foods† 0 1 .000 † – Dropped out of the NPBL at various points in the season.NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/league/national-professional-basketball-league-2/ Pro Basketball EncyclopediaNelson Murry R. The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 2009 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 978-0-7864-4006-1, p. 5 NPBL Playoffs Due to the number of teams dwindling down from nine to only five teams for this season, this version of NPBL's playoffs would essentially be a best-of-five championship series between the two best teams remaining in the league, which coincidentally were both in the state of Ohio. NPBL Championship Series (1) Akron Firestone Non-Skids vs. (2) Toledo Crimson Coaches Tobaccos: Akron wins series 3–0 Game 1 @ Toledo: Akron 18, Toledo 13 Game 2 @ Akron: Akron 31, Toledo 24 Game 3 @ Toledo: Akron 27, Toledo 24 References Category:Akron Firestone Non-Skids seasons Akron Firestone Non-Skids Akron Firestone Non-Skids