1929–30 Fort Wayne Hoosiers season

Fort Wayne Hoosiers American Basketball League (original) 1930 25 29 Lou Sugarman (7–5)Clarence Alter (18–24) Ralph Miller C. L. Alterhttps://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-union/202009397/ Fathers Of The Newly Formed American Basketball League The Times-Union June 6, 1925 22 Newspapers.com Fort Wayne Auditorium1930 Fort Wayne Hoosiers en RetroSeasons 2023-03-21 2026-08-25 https://www.retroseasons.com/teams/fort-wayne-hoosiers/1930/overview/ T–4th (1st half); 5th (2nd half) Did not qualify The 1929–30 Fort Wayne Hoosiers season was both the Hoosiers' fifth season of existence as a professional franchise (albeit after previously playing their first professional season under the Fort Wayne Caseys name, though the Hoosiers were also sometimes referred to as the Guards instead) in the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana and the fifth season of existence for the American Basketball League, which was the first professional basketball league that had truly attempted to go fully national after previous professional basketball leagues were mostly regional at the time. For the fourth time in five seasons, the American Basketball League would utilize the split season formatting, though similar to the previous ABL season, the American Basketball League would have eight teams competing within the two half seasons that were being utilized here instead of the one whole season that was being was the season before that one. However, unlike that previous season, this season would see not just one, but two different teams drop out of the ABL entirely, with the New York (Original) Celtics basically being a shell of their former selves by this point in time and later having their average 5–5 record be stricken from the record books by the end of the season after dropping out of the league by December 19, 1929, while the Syracuse All-Americans fared even worse than them by comparison, to the point where they ended up forfeiting their final four games scheduled in the first half of the season after officially dropping out of the season themselves on January 6, 1930.Bradley Grasso Robert John Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia 2003 SPORT Media Publishing, Inc. 1-894963-01-6, p. 411 During the first half of the season, the Hoosiers would see some serious problems come into play, as instead of them continuing to try and compete as one of the best teams in the league, Fort Wayne would surprisingly see themselves as nothing more than an average squad as they tied the Chicago Bruins for an average 12–12 record (being two games ahead of the Paterson Crescents) for a fourth-place finish behind that of the Rochester Centrals, the Brooklyn Visitations, and the defending ABL champion Cleveland Rosenblums. Unfortunately for Fort Wayne, their woes from the first half of the season would not only continue onward, but also worsen up into the second half of the season instead. In that half, the Hoosiers would be one of only two teams with a losing record in that part of the season, as their below-average 13–17 record would see them finish ahead of only the Paterson Crescents once again for a fifth-place finish this season, easily failing to qualify for the ABL championship series in what would be seen as a very disappointing season for them. Roster Due to information on American 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.FORT WAYNE HOOSIERS - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-05-26 2026-07-05 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/fort-wayne-hoosiers-4/1929 Fort Wayne Hoosiers basketball Statistics en StatsCrew 2026-08-25 2026-08-25 https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/roster/t-ABLFWH/y-19291929-30 Fort Wayne Hoosiers (ABL) en peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com Mike Wilk 2026-08-25 https://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2017/12/1929-30-fort-wayne-hoosiers-abl.html https://web.archive.org/web/20260818054645/http://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2017/12/1929-30-fort-wayne-hoosiers-abl.html 2026-08-18 Player PositionDavey BanksFJohn BeckmanFBennie BorgmannG/FShang ChadwickCGeorge GlascoG/FHank KowalczykF/CBranch McCrackenG/FRalph MillerGWard MyersG/FRusty SaundersF/CFrank ShimekGLefty TopelGWhitey WickhorstF Note: In addition to all of these players, there was also an unknown player with the last name of Williser who was very briefly on the team that scored two points in a match for Fort Wayne as well.American Basketball League 1925-26 to 1930-31, 1933-34 to 1952-53 www.apbr.org 2026-07-05 https://www.apbr.org/abl2552.html American Basketball League Standings +First HalfTeamWinsLossesWinning %Cleveland Rosenblums177.738Brooklyn Visitations159.625Rochester Centrals1410.583Fort Wayne Hoosiers1212.500Chicago Bruins1212.500Paterson Crescents1014.417New York (Original) Celtics†*55.500Syracuse All-Americans†420.167 † – Withdrew from the ABL before the first half of the season officially ended, with the New York (Original) Celtics dropping out of the league on December 19, 1929, and the Syracuse All-Americans dropping out of the ABL (and forfeiting their final four games of the first half of the season by default) on January 6, 1930, near the end of the first half of the season.Team Standings by Year - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-01-26 2026-07-05 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/team-standings-by-year/?y=1929-1930&t=New%20YorkTeam Standings by Year - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-01-26 2026-07-05 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/team-standings-by-year/?y=1929-1930&t=Syracuse * – Withdrew from the ABL after playing only ten total games during the first half of this season, with their games being stricken from the official league record books during this season despite having an average record this season. +Second Half TeamWinsLossesWinning %Rochester Centrals1911.633Cleveland Rosenblums1812.600Chicago Bruins1713.567Brooklyn Visitations1515.500Fort Wayne Hoosiers1317.433Paterson Crescents822.267 Awards and honors By the end of the season, Bennie Borgmann would end up being the leading scorer of the entire league for the second straight season in a row in its fifth season of existence with 416 points scored for an average of 8.3 points per game. 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