1943-44 Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons Roster

National Basketball League (NBL)
Team Record: 18-4
Finishing 1st in the NBL
Won Championship
Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
1943-44 Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons Statistics
1943-44 Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons Results

The Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons of the National Basketball League ended the 1943-44 season with a record of 18 wins and 4 losses, finishing first in the NBL.

Fort Wayne netted 1,039 points, tops in the circuit. The team yielded 906 points. Bobby McDermott tossed in a team-leading 306 points for the Zollner Pistons, and Buddy Jeannette scored 8 or more per game also. The 1943-44 Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons won the Championship.

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Player Pos. Birth Date Height Weight College Hometown
Paul BirchF-G-CJanuary 4, 19106'1"190DuquesneHomestead, PA USA
Jerry BushF-CSeptember 6, 19146'3"200St. John's (NY)Brooklyn, NY USA
Dale HamiltonG-FAugust 16, 19196'0"180Franklin (IN)
Buddy JeannetteGSeptember 15, 19175'11"175Washington & JeffersonNew Kensington, PA USA
Bobby McDermottGJanuary 7, 19145'11"180noneWhitestone, NY USA
Jake PelkingtonC-FJanuary 3, 19166'6"220Manhattan
Chick ReiserG-FDecember 17, 19145'11"165NYU
Blackie ToweryF-CJune 20, 19206'4"210Western KentuckyCaldwell, KY



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