STATISTICS & HISTORY
Roy Leenig was a star on the West New York Memorial High School basketball team that won the 1939 New Jersey State championship. Leenig did not attend college, but but coached St.Peter’s Prep to prominence in the early 1950s. Leening guided St.Peter’s to five straight New Jersey Parochial A Division championships from 1951 to 1955. He was head basketball coach at Holy Cross College from 1955 until 1961. In six years, he posted a 106-48 record. Leenig coached Tom Heinsohn who has been associated with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association for six decades as a player, coach and broadcaster and is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. After the 1960-61 season, in which Holy Cross finished with a 22-5 record, Leenig , at age 41, resigned as coach siting “personal reasons” and never coached again at any level.
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| ROY LEENIG | Height: | 6:01 | Weight: | 170 | College: | None | ||||
| Roy Henry. Leenig | Born: Aug 22, 1920 | Died: Nov 8, 1982 | Hometown: | West NewYork, NJ | ||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1938-39 | Indep | |||||||||
| 1939-40 | Indep | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | Passaic Kenyons | Indep | ||||||||
| 1940-41 | New York McDonald’s | Indep | ||||||||
| 1940-41 | Wallington Pioneers | Indep | ||||||||
| 1941-42 | East Orange Setonians | Indep | ||||||||
| 1942-43 | West New York McDonalds | Indep | ||||||||
| 1942-43 | Passaic Neilleys | Indep | ||||||||
| 1943-44 | West New York McDonalds | Indep | ||||||||
| 1944-45 | renton | ABL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| 1944-45 | Cliffside AC | Indep | ||||||||
| 1945-46 | West New York McDonalds | Indep | ||||||||
| 1945-46 | Wallington Pioneers | Indep | ||||||||
| 1946-47 | Jersey City | ABL | 36 | 157 | 89 | 403 | 11.2 | |||
| 1946-47 | Passaic Kellys | Indep | 2 | 12 | 4 | 38 | 19,0 | |||
| 1947-48 | Jersey City-Union City-Scranton | ABL | 22 | 49 | 23 | 48 | .479 | 121 | 5.5 | |
| Major League Totals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| 1945-46 | Wellington Pioneers | Indep | |||||||||
| 1946-47 | Jersey City | ABL | 36 | 157 | 89 | 403 | 11.2 | ||||
| 1947-48 | Jersey City-Union City-Scranton | ABL | 22 | 49 | 23 | 48 | .479 | 121 | 5.5 | ||
| Major League Totals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||||