Leroy Lins was a memeber of two New Jersey state scholastic championship teams, in 1930 with New Brunswick High School and in 1933 with Rutgers Prep. Lin was a three-year starter on the Rutgers University varsity basketball team. Lins played just one year of professional basketball with the Akron Goodyear Tire team in the National Basketball League, but he remained with the Goodyear as an employee for over nearly three decades, serving as a financial director of the company in the later years.

Frank Light was a star basketball player at Newtown High School in Queens. In December  of 1926, the eighteen year old Light played his first  professional game with a local team, the Sheridan Caseys. During the course of the season, he played with three more professional teams including a newly-formed team called the Long Island Imperials. During the remaining ten years of his basketball career, Light played exclusively with the Imperials and after a merger the renamed Long Island Pro-Imps. His ten years with a single team was almost unprecedented  in an era where players often played simultaneously with more than team during a single season  and from year t0 year,  bounced randomly from team to team.