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The Fort Wayne Hoosiers (originally the Fort Wayne Major Hoosiers) were an American basketball team based in Fort Wayne, Indiana that was a member of the American Basketball League. Year-by-year [ edit ]
Fort Wayne hosted two NBA Finals Games in 1955 and 1956, as well as the third city to host the NBA All-Star Game in 1953. [4] The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum was also venue to the 2000 NCAA Men's Division I Volleyball Championship matches, in addition to hosting the 2000, 2001, and 2002 Mid-Continent Conference men's basketball tournaments .
The Fort Wayne General Electrics was an amateur basketball team located in Fort Wayne, Indiana and competed in the National Basketball League and the National Industrial Basketball League. They joined the NBL (who later formed the NBA) in 1937 but they stayed there for 1 year, returning to their amateur status.
The Benedictine basketball team hadn't been to the state Final 4 since 1959. Now the Cadets have back-to-back semifinal appearances under Frank Williams.
Fort Wayne Central Murray Mendenhall: 27-1 Lebanon 45-40 1943-44 Evansville Bosse Herm Keller 19-7 Kokomo 39-35 1944-45 Evansville Bosse Herm Keller 25-2 South Bend Riley 46-36 1945-46 Anderson Charles Cummings 22-7 Fort Wayne Central 67-53 1946-47 Shelbyville Frank Barnes 25-5 Terre Haute Garfield 68-58 1947-48 Lafayette Jefferson Marion Crawley
The playoffs saw Fort Wayne defeat Cleveland 2 games to 0, and New York defeated Philadelphia 2 games to zero. New York defeated Fort Wayne 3 games to 1 in the championship series. The playoffs would be Philadelphia's last appearance in the league, as the team folded, becoming the third league team to revoke their presence.
The 1954–55 Fort Wayne Pistons season was the seventh season for the Pistons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) [1] and 14th season as a franchise. With new coach and former referee Charley Eckman , the Pistons finished 43-29 (.597), first in the NBA Western Division.
St. Benedict's Prep and Delbarton have a shared history that dates back to the Morris County school's founding. In December 1925, St. Mary's Abbey in central Newark purchased 400 acres of what had ...