1950–51 Anderson Packers season

NPBL professional basketball team season Anderson Packers National Professional Basketball League 1951 22 22 Eastern 2nd/3rd Frank Gates (player-coach; 14–12)Leo Klier (player-coach; 8–10) Anderson High School Wigwam Ike W. DuffeyJohn B. DuffeyDuffey's Meat Packing, Inc. Roy Eggman Bob MyersWalter Vasbinders Did not qualify(Playoffs were cancelled) 1 The 1950–51 Anderson Packers season was the fifth and final year of the Packers' existence as a franchise (or sixth and final year as a franchise if you include their only season where they first started out as the Anderson Chiefs (which sometimes got their team name expanded out more into being the Chief Anderson Meat Packers at times due to their affiliation with the local meat packing business called Duffey's Incorporated) and the only season they would play in the National Professional Basketball League (NPBL), as it would become the only season for that league's general existence. The Anderson Packers were the first National Basketball Association (NBA) team since the 1949 National Basketball League-Basketball Association of America merger (which had seen three NBL and two BAA teams fold operations entirely before the NBA began operating under their new name) that created the NBA properly to technically fold operations (according to the NBA) in spite of their success in their only NBA season due to the poor health of team owner Ike W. Duffey at the time leading to the NBA forcing the team to withdraw their operations entirely on April 10, 1950, with three other teams that were former NBL teams (out of four and then five total teams to fold before the 1950–51 NBA season began) in the original Denver Nuggets franchise (who ended up first rebranding into the Denver Frontier Refiners and then the Evansville Agogans later in this particular season), the Sheboygan Red Skins, and the Waterloo Hawks also folding operations the day before the 1950 NBA draft began two weeks later on April 24.Meyer Roger Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia 2003 SPORT Media Publishing, Inc. 1-894963-01-6, p. 425 However, while those four teams (alongside the St. Louis Bombers) failed to draft any players from the NBA draft that year, Anderson alongside Denver, Sheboygan, and Waterloo would end up creating their own rivaling professional basketball league called the National Professional Basketball League as a way to compete against the NBA during this season (though Anderson was considered a new team that joined the NPBL at the time instead of one of the original teams from the NBA competing in the NPBL alongside Denver, Sheboygan, and Waterloo (though they're still officially considered exactly that all the same) due to the perceived health problems of Ike W. Duffey at the time, with the Packers also being the only one of the original four ownership teams to not have any of their ownership guys taking on any of the known key roles for the NPBL in their only season of existenceHistory of the National Professional Basketball League https://apbr.org/npbl.html apbr.org). Despite having the option to return to their original Duffey Packers name this season, the Anderson team declined to return to their original NBL name this season (likely due to the aforementioned health problems that Ike W. Duffey was dealing with at the time). Regardless of Anderson's own circumstances this season, the NPBL's existence was considered such a major surprise to the NBA for the 1950–51 season that the NBA ended up agreeing to end player raids before they could begin again, similar to what had happened between the NBL and BAA originally (to the point of having a cash settlement at hand for past player raids at hand), alongside having exhibition scheduled games planned out between the two leagues (although those exhibition games never happened); the NPBL's regular season schedules were intended to be 60 games long for teams to play each other four times (two road, two home games each), with an extra two games (likely a home and road game) being added for matches against the nearest neighboring team in question, but none of the NPBL's teams would reach that mark that season. Early on in the season, Anderson would host one of the highest viewed games in the NPBL's history in only the new league's third game played (the Packers' first ever NPBL game played) with a total of 3,600 people seeing them win with an 83–67 victory over the St. Paul Lights, which saw some optimism for the fletching league at first.Meyer Roger Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia 2003 SPORT Media Publishing, Inc. 1-894963-01-6, p. 426 However, much like the NBPL's production the further the season went along, the Anderson Packers would see themselves struggle to continue their season at times, let alone finish the season with an average record in the end. While the Packers looked like a decent team at first, finishing the month of November with a 6–5 record, the month of December would see Anderson struggle more as a team. While Anderson still had an above-average record by the end of their 1950 year with a 12–11 record, the NPBL would start seeing their new league fall apart at the seams with two of their newest teams in the Grand Rapids Hornets and St. Paul Lights (the latter being a winning team) folding operations during the month of December, leaving the league with only six teams by the start of the 1951 year. The Anderson Packers would still try and continue onward to act like one of the stronger teams in the NPBL throughout the month of January by finishing the month with an 18–15 record, but the NPBL would still see some teams of theirs folding operations by January with the Kansas City Hi-Spots and Denver Frontier Refiners folding operations to have only four teams left over (though the latter team would technically be replaced by the Evansville Agogans for the rest of the season). It wouldn't be until February, however, where the pressures of trying to keep up with the financial struggles with being on a struggling league was starting to wear thin on the Packers franchise, as Anderson would finish the month of February with a below-average 19–21 record, with the NPBL also seeing a fifth team of theirs fold operations entirely by then in the Louisville Alumnites. While the Anderson Packers had officially been considered to have met their demise by the middle of December 1950, various forms of financial aid helped carry the team at various times throughout the season, to the point where the team had only kept on playing through simple heart alone at times, before ultimately stopping their NPBL season by March 13 after their final regular season home game won against the Waterloo Hawks occurred with an 83–67 win following an eight-day break they had for a few games in March with a major losing streak causing them to end their final season of play with an average 22–22 record (with Anderson failing to qualify for any playoff contention had it occurred this season due to how few teams there were remaining this season).Meyer Roger Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia 2003 SPORT Media Publishing, Inc. 1-894963-01-6, p. 427 (Interestingly, the Waterloo Courier listed the Anderson Packers having a below-average final record of 16–18, while The Sheboygan Press listed them having an average final record of 12–12 instead.Harwood Tim Ball Hawks: The Arrival and Departure of the NBA in Iowa 2018 University of Iowa Press 978-1-60938-589-7 Iowa City Appendix B) While the Sheboygan Red Skins and Waterloo Hawks failed to get a championship series going for the NPBL and failed to get another attempt to rival against the NBA down in the Western Professional League, Sheboygan would continue playing for one more season as an independent team before folding for good, while every other remaining team (including Anderson) folded operations for good following the end of the NPBL's only season of play. Roster Anderson Packers 1950–51 #cc0033 #FFFFFF #FFFFFF #cc0033 Tiny Allen 1 C 6 5 245 Oklahoma A&M 1924–04–15 Charles B. Black F/C 6 5 200 Kansas 1921–06–15 Jim Cathcart basketball 1 F 6 4 205 Arkansas 1926–11–22 Dillard Crocker F 6 4 205 Western Michigan 1925–01–19 Dick Dickey G 6 1 175 NC State 1926–10–26 Grant Dunlap F 6 3 185 College of the Pacific 1923–12–20 Frank Gates basketball G/F 6 0 160 Sam Houston State 1920–04–12 Bob Kinney F/C 6 6 215 Rice 1920–09–16 Leo Klier G/F 6 2 170 Notre Dame 1923–05–21 Milo Komenich F/C 6 7 212 Wyoming 1920–06–22 George Latham basketball 1 F 6 3 185 Louisiana Tech 1927–08–20 Al Madsen 1 G 5 10 170 Texas 1921–01–05 Chuck Mrazovich F 6 5 185 Eastern Kentucky 1924–02–26 Oren Nichols G/F 6 3 185 Anderson HS (IN)? 1918–05–07 Richie Niemiera G/F 6 1 165 Notre Dame 1921–05–26 Red Owens G 6 3 185 Baylor 1925–09–02 Ed Stanczak G 6 1 185 Central HS (IN) 1921–08–15 Warren Switzer 1 F 6 3 185 Rice 1925–07–04 Jack Walton basketball F 6 2 190 East Union HS (IN) 1926–05–19 Frank Gates Leo Klier ANDERSON DUFFY PACKERS https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/anderson-duffy-packers-4/ Pro Basketball EncyclopediaWilk Mike Peach Basket Society: 1950-51 Anderson Packers (NPBL) https://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2017/08/1950-51-anderson-packers-npbl.html Peach Basket Society 7 August 20171950-51 Anderson Packers basketball Roster on StatsCrew.com https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/roster/t-AND/y-1950 StatsCrew.com Regular season Overall (Final) standings without divisions These standings would be applied based on the NPBL eventually getting rid of divisions altogether once they would go down to four (and then potentially three?) teams left by the end of their season.NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/league/national-professional-basketball-league-3/ Pro Basketball Encyclopedia Teams W L PCT GB Sheboygan Redskins 29 16 .644 – Waterloo Hawks 32 24 .571 5.5 Anderson Packers 22 22 .500 6.5 St. Paul Lights † 12 8 .600 2 Louisville Alumnites † 18 17 .514 6 Denver Frontier Refiners / Evansville Agogans†‡ 18 22 .450 8.5 Grand Rapids Hornets † 6 13 .316 10 Kansas City Hi-Spots † 4 19 .174 11.5 Eastern Division These standings would be applied based on the NPBL keeping their original Eastern and Western Division formatting for the entire season.1950-51 National Professional Basketball League (NPBL) Basketball Standings on StatsCrew.com https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/standings/l-NPBL/y-1950 StatsCrew.com Eastern Division W L PCT GB Sheboygan Redskins 29 16 .644 – Anderson Packers 22 22 .500 6.5 Louisville Alumnites † 18 17 .514 6 Grand Rapids Hornets † 6 13 .316 10 Evansville Agogans †‡ 0 6 .000 9.5 Western Division These standings would be applied based on the NPBL keeping their original Eastern and Western Division formatting for the entire season. Western Division W L PCT GB Waterloo Hawks 32 24 .571 – Denver Frontier Refiners †‡ 18 16 .529 6 St. Paul Lights † 12 8 .600 2 Kansas City Hi-Spots † 4 19 .174 11.5 Notes † Disbanded during the season. ‡ Denver moved to Evansville during the season. NPBL Schedule Not to be confused with exhibition or other non-NPBL scheduled games that did not count towards Anderson's official NPBL record for this season.1950-51 Anderson Packers basketball Game-by-Game Results on StatsCrew.com https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/results/t-AND/y-1950 StatsCrew.com # Date Opponent Score Record 1 November 4 St. Paul 83–67 1–0 2 November 10 @ St. Paul 68–76 1–1 3 November 12 @ Kansas City 82–65 2–1 4 November 15 @ Grand Rapids 82–84 2–2 5 November 16 @ Grand Rapids 68–76 2–3 6 November 19 @ Louisville 73–81 (3OT) 2–4 7 November 22 @ Louisville 81–76 (OT) 3–4 8 November 23 Louisville 99–78 4–4 9 November 25 Sheboygan 107–86 5–4 — November 26 @ Kansas City Cancelled (Snowed Out) 10 November 28 Kansas City 115–87 6–4 11 November 29 @ Waterloo 69–103 6–5 12 December 2 Grand Rapids 100–77 7–5 13 December 7 Denver 98–81 8–5 14 December 8 @ St. Paul 68–85 8–6 15 December 10 @ Sheboygan 80–91 8–7 16 December 12 @ Grand Rapids 93–97 8–8 17 December 13 @ Louisville 70–72 8–9 18 December 14 @ Kansas City 80–62 9–9 19 December 17 @ Denver 68–77 9–10 20 December 18 @ Denver 68–62 10–10 21 December 21 Louisville 64–70 10–11 22 December 26 Denver 80–68 11–11 23 December 30 Denver 72–66 12–11 24 January 1 @ Sheboygan 86–85 (OT) 13–11 25 January 4 Waterloo 116–69 14–11 26 January 11 Louisville 89–95 14–12 27 January 14 @ Sheboygan 71–86 14–13 28 January 15 Denver 73–72 15–13 29 January 19 Waterloo 92–82 16–13 30 January 21 @ Louisville 55–95 16–14 31 January 25 Sheboygan 104–91 17–14 32 January 27 @ Waterloo 69–88 17–15 33 January 30 Waterloo 97–88 18–15 34 February 2 @ Sheboygan 66–110 18–16 35 February 5 Waterloo 95–97 18–17 36 February 11 @ Evansville 100–74 19–17 37 February 17 @ Waterloo 76–96 19–18 38 February 21 @ Waterloo 77–84 19–19 39 February 22 @ Sheboygan 73–97 19–20 40 February 24 @ Waterloo 92–103 19–21 41 March 2 Evansville 79–70 20–21 42 March 4 @ Sheboygan 92–99 20–22 43 March 5 Sheboygan 98–71 21–22 44 March 13 Waterloo 83–67 22–22 — March 15 @ Sheboygan Cancelled Exhibition Schedule These were games that were scheduled for Anderson to play that didn't count toward their official record this season. December 21, 1950 @ Evansville, IN: Exhibition match between the Anderson Packers and the Evansville Agogans (at least, they were presumed to be the Evansville Agogans) was cancelled that day due to Anderson being preoccupied with playing an official NPBL scheduled match against the Louisville Alumnites on that exact same day. January 3, 1951 @ Anderson, IN: New York Clowns 41, Anderson Packers 68 February 8, 1951 @ Anderson, IN: Chicago Collegians 59, Anderson Packers 75 February 10, 1951 @ Anderson, IN: Chicago Shamrocks 85, Anderson Packers 105 February 14, 1951 @ Louisville, KY: Anderson Packers 92, Louisville Alumnites 72 February 15, 1951 @ Anderson, IN: Louisville Alumnites 72, Anderson Packers 95 February 28, 1951 @ South Bend, IN: Anderson Packers 101, South Bend All-Stars 71 March 12, 1951 @ Brazil, IN: Anderson Packers 99, Waterloo Hawks 84 March 22, 1951 @ Anderson, IN: Midwest College All-Stars 79, Anderson Packers 98 Awards and honors All-NPBL Second Team – Red Owens References Category:Anderson Packers seasons Category:National Professional Basketball League (1950–51) Anderson Packers Anderson Packers