1932–33 Indianapolis Kautskys season

NPBL professional basketball team season Indianapolis Jets Indianapolis Kautskys National Professional Basketball League 1933 7 4 3 Frank Kautsky Frank Kautsky Indianapolis Armory Frank KautskyPete Bailey Did not qualify 1 1936 The 1932–33 Indianapolis Kautskys season was the first official season in the franchise's history where the team played as the Indianapolis Kautskys properly after playing their previous independent season as the Indianapolis Kautsky A.C.'s,NBA Team Roots www.apbr.org 2026-07-02 https://www.apbr.org/nbaroots.html as well as their only professional basketball season of play 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).Indianapolis Jets/Indianapolis Kautskys https://nbahoopsonline.com/teams/Xdefunct/IndianapolisJets/index.html nbahoopsonline.com 21 March 2026 Due to this being their inaugural (professional) season of play, the Kautskys would have their home venue be held at the Indianapolis Armory instead of the present-day Hinkle Fieldhouse since they were a young, unproven franchise at the time. Entering this season, the Kautskys would join both of Akron, Ohio's works teams in the Akron Firestone Non-Skids (owned and operated by Firestone) and the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots (owned and operated by Goodyear) alongside potentially two former American Basketball League teams under rebranded names in the Fort Wayne Chiefs and the Toledo Crimson Coaches (Tobaccos) as five of the nine incoming teams to create that new league. (Interestingly, the Kautskys weren't considered a team to join this league at the time due to an initial final attempt for creating the NPBL had representatives in Fort Wayne, Indiana within their Anthony Wayne Hotel being joined by representatives in Chicago, Illinois and other Ohio locations in Akron, 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 Kautskys, they would finish their only season in the NPBL with an above-average 7–4 record, which would be good enough for a third-place finish by being both above the Fort Wayne Chiefs and Akron Goodyear Wingfoots and behind the Toledo Crimson Coaches Tobaccos (with Toledo being only one win ahead of the Kautskys for the second place spot this season) and nearly undefeated Akron Firestone Non-Skids, but not good enough to qualify for the playoffs that season, which would actually be a best-of-five championship series between the two best teams of the league that season in the Akron Firestone Non-Skids and the Toledo Crimson Coaches Tobaccos, with the Firestone squad ultimately sweeping Toledo's team that season. This season was also notable for it being the first professional season ever played by future Hall of Famer John Wooden, who led the entire league in scoring with 126 total points scored during this season (averaging 11.5 points per game there). After a few years of independent play, team owner and head coach Frank Kautsky alongside Akron Firestone Non-Skids head coach Paul Sheeks would help create the Midwest Basketball Conference with mostly new teams being added to help succeed the original version of the NPBL that both Indianapolis and Akron had played under. Interestingly, thanks to a complex stretch of history, the Indianapolis franchise would end up being the only team from the NPBL days (and by extension, the MBC days) to end up playing for the Basketball Association of America, which soon afterward became the present-day National Basketball Association, thus giving those two minor (professional) basketball leagues a connection of sorts to the NBA.Midwest Basketball Conference Teams https://nbahoopsonline.com/History/Leagues/MidwestBasketballConference/index.html 2025-09-24 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.INDIANAPOLIS - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-08-01 2026-07-02 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/indianapolis/ Indianapolis Kautskys 1932–33 #000099 #FFFFFF #CC0033 #FFFFFF Bill Bugg 1 F 6 1 190 Butler 1906–10–20 Peedad Campbell 1 G 5 7 160 Indiana 1909–08–25 Clarence Christopher 1 F/C 6 7 240 Butler 1905–11–15 Bob Durham 1 G 6 1 170 Indianapolis 1910–10–12 Lefty Evans 1 G 6 1 205 Butler 1909–12–18 Maurice Hosier 1 G 5 11 180 Butler 1907–08–03 Harry Kellar basketball G/F 5 10 170 Purdue 1906–10–01 Joe Kelly basketball G 6 1 185 Unknown 1906–10–25 Stretch Murphy C 6 6 185 Purdue 1907–04–10 Ray Scott basketball, born 1904 1 G 5 11 165 Franklin (IN) 1904–05–04 John Wooden G/F 5 10 185 Purdue 1910–10–14 Frank Kautsky 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 - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-05-29 2026-07-02 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/league/national-professional-basketball-league-2/Nelson Murry R. The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 2009 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 978-0-7864-4006-1, p. 5 References Category:Indianapolis Kautskys Indianapolis Kautskys Indianapolis Kautskys