Chicago Studebakers
The Chicago Studebakers (also: Chicago Studebaker Flyers ) were a professional American basketball team of the National Basketball League in the 1942/43 season.
For the players, professional is to be understood as an exclusion rating for amateur, church or college basketball . That the works team of the United Auto Workers in addition to their wages for the work in the Studebaker factory has more expenses for the operation of gambling is not known, but also not ruled out. The fact is that none of the players could be called up for military service because of their work in an industrial production that was important to the war effort .
The Chicago Studebakers were the NBL's second integration team after the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets , which means that alongside the white players Mike Novak, Paul Sokody, Dick Evans and Johnny Orr with Roosie Hudson, Sonny Boswell, Duke Cumberland, Tony Peyton, Bernie Price, Ted Strong, and Hillery Brown also included former players from the Chicago Harlem Globetrotters and the New York Rens .
Eight wins in the 1942/43 season faced 15 defeats, but because of Toledo's withdrawal during the current season, all four remaining teams qualified for the postseason , in which the Studebakers lost to Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons 1-2 after wins. The team made its last appearance as South Bend Studebaker Champions in March 1943 against the Minneapolis Rock String Sparklers in the round of 16 of the World Professional Basketball Tournament .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Douglas Stark: Wartime Basketball. The Emergence of a National Sport during World War II. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / London 2016. ISBN 9780803245280 (pages 97-100, page 129, in English).