1932–33 Akron Goodyear Wingfoots season

NPBL professional basketball team season Akron Goodyear Wingfoots National Professional Basketball League 1933 2 4 Goodyear 4 Smiley WeltnerAKRON GOODYEAR WEBFOOTS https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/akron-goodyear-webfoots-6/ Pro Basketball Encyclopedia Goodyear Hall Did not qualify 1 1937 The 1932–33 Akron Goodyear Wingfoots season was the Goodyear Wingfoots' 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 However, if you include their previous seasons of existence as an independent team, alongside seasons where they competed in the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Industrial League (not to be confused with the National Industrial Basketball League that they would later compete in, with the Goodyear Wingfoots winning a championship in the NIL during the previous season in 1932), this season would officially be considered their 15th season of play as a team. Entering this season, the Goodyear Wingfoots would join the inner city rivaling Akron Firestone Non-Skids operated by head coach Paul Sheeks 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, Goodyear'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 Goodyear Wingfoots themselves playing in only six games this year. Worse yet for the Goodyear squad, they would finish the season with a below-average 2–4 record for a technical fourth place finish (finishing ahead of only the Fort Wayne Chiefs in terms of teams that would actually finish their seasons properly), which resulted in them failing to qualify for the NPBL's playoffs (which was just a championship series) for this season. Following this season's conclusion, the Goodyear Wingfoots would continue playing as a team in the (local) National Industrial League until 1936, when they decided to enter the Midwest Basketball Conference that was created by Paul Sheeks of the Akron Firestone Non-Skids and Frank Kautsky of the Indianapolis Kautskys for what would ultimately become their second and final season of existence before it later became the National Basketball League.Nelson Murry R. The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 2009 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 978-0-7864-4006-1, p. 14Midwest Basketball Conference https://nbahoopsonline.com/History/Leagues/MidwestBasketballConference/index.html nbahoopsonline.comNBL National Basketball League https://nbahoopsonline.com/History/Leagues/NBL/index.html nbahoopsonline.com 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 Goodyear Wingfoots 1932–33 #0047AB #FFFFFF #F87217 #000000 Dick Bolton 1 F/C 6 2 180 Cincinnati 1904–10–17 Buck Burkle 1 G Mount Union 1907–10–05 Frank Harrigan G/F 6 1 195 Michigan 1904–12–28 Bob Kamp 1 G 6 0 155 Illinois 1909–12–17 Johnny Miner 1 G 5 9 150 Ohio State 1901–05–31 Rex Moffett 1 G/F 5 11 175 DePauw 1915–05–07 Swede Olson 1 G/F 6 0 150 Illinois 1904–06–29 Burt Riel 1 G/F 5 11 160 Northwestern 1910–09–16 Mal Rush F 6 0 170 Bethany (WV) 1909–04–02 Bob Taylor basketball 1 C 6 5 185 Muskingum 1906–08–26 Stash Wrobleski 1 G/F 5 10 160 Pittsburgh 1905–10–28 Smiley Weltner 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 References Category:Akron Goodyear Wingfoots seasons Akron Goodyear Wingfoots Akron Goodyear Wingfoots