1941–42 Akron Goodyear Wingfoots season

NBL professional basketball team season Akron Goodyear Wingfoots NBL 1942 15 9 T–2nd (tied with Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons) Goodyear Ray DetrickAKRON GOODYEAR https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/akron-goodyear-wingfoots-5 Pro Basketball Encyclopedia Goodyear HallAkron ArmoryNelson Murry R. The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 2009 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 978-0-7864-4006-1, p. 102 Lost NBL Semifinals to Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, 2–1 1 The 1941–42 Akron Goodyear Wingfoots season was the Goodyear Wingfoots' fifth and final year in the United States' National Basketball League (NBL), which was also the fifth year the league existed. NBL Season Index basketball-reference.com Sports Reference LLC https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/seasons/ September 27, 2019 However, if you include their previous seasons of existence as an independent team, alongside seasons where they competed in the Amateur Athletic Union, 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 in 1932), and what were considered to be predecessors to the NBL in the National Professional Basketball League and the Midwest Basketball Conference (the latter of which the Goodyear Wingfoots won that league's final championship under that name before it folded operations and was considered to be rebranded as the NBL according to some basketball historiansNelson Murry R. The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 2009 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 978-0-7864-4006-1, p. 32Midwest 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), this season would officially be considered their 24th season of play (though not their last season of play) as a team. For the second straight season in a row, the NBL would play their season with only seven teams without any divisional play at hand, though this season would see some new teams replacing some older NBL squads, including the return of the Indianapolis Kautskys after being a barnstorming club for a season and the introduction of the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, who still currently exist in the present day out in the NBA as the Detroit Pistons. 1937–38 NBL Season Summary basketball-reference.com Sports Reference LLC https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/seasons/1938.html September 27, 2019 This also ended up becoming the Wingfoots' first and only NBL season where they were the sole team representing Akron, Ohio in the league after the Akron Firestone Non-Skids from the rivaling Firestone Tire and Rubber Company decided to fold operations after the end of the previous season, meaning any mentions of them can directly infer to their location of Akron instead of their specific team name this time around. The Wingfoots still played their home games at the Goodyear Hall. Akron Goodyear → 1941–1942 Pro Basketball Encyclopedia https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/team-standings-by-year/?y=1941-1942&t=Akron%20Goodyear September 27, 2019 However, due to some financial issues that related to the growing problems of World War II further affecting the NBL season (mainly with fewer people wanting to come see their NBL games for one reason or another), the Akron squad would be forced to play some of their home games at the Akron Armory, which was the home of the nearby University of Akron, as a means to try and help fix their financial woes for this season. While they would ultimately not succeed at fixing those specific problems (seeing as how the Goodyear Wingfoots would suspend operations following this season's conclusion, only later returning in 1947 alongside former NBL member Fort Wayne General Electrics for the National Industrial Basketball League instead of returning to the NBL properly, similar to what the Indianapolis Kautskys had done this season), Akron would end up finishing this season with one of their best records in the NBL with a 15–9 record, tying the newly created Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (now known as the Detroit Pistons of the NBA) for a second-place finish in the NBL behind the defending champion Oshkosh All-Stars. In what would later become the team's final playoff appearance in the NBL, Akron would crush the new Fort Wayne team in their first playoff match, but would ultimately lose to the Zollner Pistons two games to one in a best-of-three series, with the Zollner Pistons later being bested by the defending champion Oshkosh All-Stars two games to one in their own best-of-three series to repeat as champions of the NBL, as well as the All-Stars winning the 1942 World Professional Basketball Tournament alongside it. This season would see George Glamack not only be named the NBL's Rookie of the Year, but also be named a member of the All-NBL Second Team as well. Not only that, but Ben Stephens would also earn All-NBL First Team honors alongside him. The Goodyear Wingfoots would end up being one of the only NBL teams to end up surviving operations following the NBL's eventual merger with the newer created Basketball Association of America to become the National Basketball Association without eventually joining the NBA itself. Roster 1941–42 Akron Goodyear Wingfoots #0047AB #FFFFFF #F87217 #000000 Gene Anderson basketball G/F 6 2 190 Purdue 1917–10–05 Rudy Debnar G 5 11 160 Duquesne 1916–05–09 Floyd Ebaugh C 6 7 230 Nebraska 1914–05–30 Harry Eich G/F 5 11 210 Unknown 1916–01–06 George Glamack F/C 6 6 225 North Carolina 1918–06–07 Ken Griffith G 6 2 195 Alderson Broaddus 1918–07–31 Lee Huber G 6 0 175 Kentucky 1919–02–16 Harold Hull F 6 4 190 Northwest Missouri State 1920–05–16 John O'Brien basketball, born 1916 F 6 1 210 Columbia 1916–07–25 Bob Parsons basketball G/F 6 1 175 Nebraska 1915–06–11 Ben Stephens basketball G/F 6 0 175 Iowa 1916–11–27 Howard Vocke G 6 0 190 St. John's 1915–03–16 Ray Detrick https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/teams/AGW/1942.html Note: Harry Eich and Lee Huber were not on Akron's playoff roster.Peach Basket Society: 1941-42 Akron Goodyear Wingfoots (NBL) https://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2015/12/1941-42-akron-goodyear-wingfoots-nbl.html Peach Basket Society 23 March 2026 1 December 20151941-42 Akron Goodyear Wingfoots basketball Roster on StatsCrew.com https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/roster/t-AGW/y-1941 statscrew.com 23 March 2026 Regular season Season standings NBL Schedule Not to be confused with exhibition or other non-NBL scheduled games that did not count towards Akron's official NBL record for this season.1941-42 NBL Game-by-Game Results - apbr.org https://www.apbr.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4629 www.apbr.org # Date Opponent Score Record 1 November 25 @ Oshkosh 34–37 0–1 2 November 27 @ Sheboygan 34–37 0–2 3 December 6 Indianapolis 46–30 1–2 4 December 8 @ Fort Wayne 49–35 2–2 5 December 14 @ Indianapolis 28–35 2–3 6 December 20 Oshkosh 35–42 2–4 7 December 27 Chicago 50–45 3–4 8 December 28 @ Toledo 60–39 4–4 9 December 30 Toledo 51–44 5–4 10 January 3 Fort Wayne 58–39 6–4 11 January 7 Chicago 43–34 7–4 12 January 10 Indianapolis 54–44 8–4 13 January 15 @ Sheboygan 33–42 8–5 14 January 17 @ Oshkosh 53–43 9–5 15 January 19 Fort Wayne 39–43 9–6 16 January 21 Toledo 52–36 10–6 17 January 24 Sheboygan 44–45 10–7 18 February 3 @ Chicago 48–52 10–8 19 February 7 Fort Wayne 46–44 11–8 20 February 14 Chicago 44–33 12–8 21 February 16 @ Indianapolis 39–46 12–9 22 February 21 Sheboygan 55–42 13–9 23 February 23 Toledo 51–49 14–9 24 February 25 Oshkosh 44–41 15–9 NBL Playoffs NBL Semifinals (2/3) Akron Goodyear Wingfoots vs. (2/3) Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons: Fort Wayne win series 2–1 Game 1: February 27, 1942 @ Akron: Akron 46, Fort Wayne 30 Game 2: March 1, 1942 @ Fort Wayne: Fort Wayne 51, Akron 48 Game 3: March 2, 1942 @ Fort Wayne: Fort Wayne 49, Akron 43 Awards and honors NBL Rookie of the Year – George Glamack First Team All-NBL – Ben Stephens All-NBL Second Team – George Glamack All-Time NBL Team – George Glamack and Ben Stephens References Category:Akron Goodyear Wingfoots seasons Akron Akron Goodyear Wingfoots Akron Goodyear Wingfoots