STATISTICS & HISTORY
Ben Ford was a basketball star at Wilkes-Barre Township High School. Ben also enjoyed an outstanding AAU and independent club career. After a brief two-game flirtation with professional basketball, Ford entered East Strounburh State Teachers College in 1941. Over the next three years, Ford, along with future pros Pete Pasko and John Mascavage, produced the most successful seasons in school history. In January of 1944, Ford was killed in action fighting in World War II.
| BEN FORD | Height: | 6:05 | Weight: | 190 | College: | East Stroudburg STC’43 | |||||
| Benjamin Francis Ford | Born:Feb 18, 1920 | Died:, Jan 25, 1944 | Hometown: | Wilkes-Barre, Pa. | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1936-37 | Wilkes-Barre YMCA | AAU | |||||||||
| 1937-38 | Kingston Starling AC | AAU | |||||||||
| 1937-38 | Georgetown Butlers | Indep | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | Georgetown Butlers | Indep | |||||||||
| 1939-40 | Georgetown Butlers | Indep | |||||||||
| 1939-40 | Wilkes-Barre | ABL | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2.5 | ||||
| 1940-41 | East Stroudburg Teachers College | College | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | East Stroudburg Teachers College | College | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | East Stroudburg Teachers College | College | |||||||||
| 1942-44 | Military Service | ||||||||||
| Major League Totals | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2.5 | ||||||