STATISTICS & HISTORY
Jack Lawrence played professional basketball for nineteen seasons. With a few exceptions, his entire basketball career was spent playing for teams in Philadelphia. Lawrence was the backbone of the great Greystock teams in the mid-teens and was instrumental in the capture of of back to back Eastern Basketball League championships in 1916 and 1917.
| JACK LAWRENCE | Height: | 6:00 | Weight: | 180 | College: | None | |||||
| John O. Lawrence | Born: | 1894 | Died: | Hometown: | Philadelphia, Pa. | ||||||
| Jacko | Lawrance | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1912-13 | Philadelphia St.Malachy | ALP | 32 | 4 | 4 | 68 | |||||
| 1913-14 | Gray’s Ferry Greystock | EBL | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2.7 | |||
| 1913-14 | Forest Hill | CCL | |||||||||
| 1914-15 | West Philadelphia | ISBL | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4.0 | ||||
| 1914-15 | Philadelphia St.Elizabeth | ALP | 7 | 19 | 0 | 6 | 38 | 5.4 | |||
| 1914-15 | Gray’s Ferry Greystock | EBL | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 4 | 12 | 0.9 | |
| 1915-16 | Philadelphia Greystock | EBL | 39 | 47 | 0 | 18 | 94 | 2.4 | |||
| 1916-17 | Greystock | EBL | 40 | 55 | 0 | 19 | 110 | 2.8 | |||
| 1917-18 | Philadelphia Greystock | EBL | 7 | 12 | 20 | 3 | 44 | 6.3 | |||
| 1917-18 | Pittston–Hazleton | PSL | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1.3 | ||||
| 1917-18 | Philadelphia Hancock | ABL | 4 | 9 | 10 | 28 | 7.0 | ||||
| 1919-20 | Parkesburg Iron Co. | Indep | 36 | 135 | 64 | 38 | 334 | 9.3 | |||
| 1919-20 | Germantown | EBL | 11 | 20 | 27 | 52 | .519 | 3 | 67 | 6.1 | |
| 1920-21 | Parkesburg Iron Co. | Indep | |||||||||
| 1920-21 | Germantown | EBL | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | .364 | 2 | 6 | 2.0 | |
| 1920-21 | Plymouth–Trenton | PSL | 6 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 3.7 | |||
| 1921-22 | Harrisburg–Wilkes-Barre | EBL | 35 | 65 | 48 | 128 | .375 | 14 | 178 | 5.1 | |
| 1921-22 | Wilkes-Barre | PSL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | ||||
| 1922-23 | Atlantic City–Philadelphia–Coatesville | EBL | 21 | 37 | 35 | 74 | .473 | 10 | 109 | 5.2 | |
| 1922-23 | Cohoes | NYSL | 11 | 13 | 17 | 43 | 3.9 | ||||
| 1922-23 | Elizabeth | MBL | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | ||||
| 1922-23 | Philadelphia St.Henry-Philadelphia Cathedral | PBL | 11 | 15 | 23 | 53 | 4.8 | ||||
| 1923-24 | Philadelphia Cathedral– West Philadelphia Shanahan | PBL | 30 | 42 | 60 | 126 | .476 | 13 | 144 | 4.8 | |
| 1923-24 | Boyertown American Legion | Indep | 3 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 4.7 | ||||
| 1924-25 | Tremont | AnBL | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3.5 | ||||
| 1924-25 | West Philadelphia Kayoula- PWest Philadelphia Shanahan | PBL | 33 | 38 | 75 | 147 | .510 | 18 | 151 | 4.6 | |
| 1925-26 | Reading | EBL | 16 | 33 | 0 | 66 | 4.1 | ||||
| 1926-27 | Hammonton | SJL | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | .250 | 5 | 2.5 | ||
| 1927-28 | Philadelphia Quartermaster | PBL | 22 | 8 | 39 | 55 | 2.5 | ||||
| 1928-29 | Philadelphia Quartermaster | EBL | 32 | 29 | 45 | 103 | 3.2 | ||||
| 1929-30 | Kennett Square | EBL | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 284 | 400 | 319 | 1119 | 3.9 | ||||||
| POST SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1915-16 | Gray’s Ferry Greystock | WS | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2.0 | ||||
| 1916-17 | Greystock | EBL | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 2.7 | ||||
| 1922-23 | Philadelphia Cathedral | PBL | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 6.5 | ||||
| 1926-27 | Quartermaster | PBL | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 3.0 | ||||
| 1927-28 | Quartermaster | PBL | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 7 | 10 | 5 | 25 | 3.6 | ||||||