| EMMOTT LENNON | Height: | 5:08 | Weight: | College: | None | ||||||
| Emmott Edward Lennon | Born: Jun 27. 1895 | Died: Oct 14, 1990 | Hometown: | Watervliet, NY | |||||||
| Son of LeftyLennon | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1915-16 | Gloversville | NYSL | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | ||||
| 1916-17 | Gloversville Co. G | Indep | |||||||||
| 1917-18 | U.S. Army | Miltary Service | |||||||||
| Major League Totals | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | ||||||
| JOHNNY LENHART | Height: | 6:06 | Weight: | 180 | College: | Colgate’37 | |||||
| John Williamson Lenhart | Born: | Dec 4, 1915 | Died: Sep 24, 1991 | Hometown: | Spencerport, NY | ||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1933-34 | Colgate (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1934-35 | Colgate | College | |||||||||
| 1935-36 | Colgate | College | |||||||||
| 1936-37 | Colgate | College | |||||||||
| 1937-38 | Buffalo | NBL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 1940-41 | Brockport | Indep | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | Rochester IBM | Indep | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | Rochester IBM | Indep | |||||||||
| 1943-44 | Rochester IBM | Indep | |||||||||
| 1944-46 | Military Service | ||||||||||
| Major League Totals | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||||
| GIRTON LENHART | Height: | 6:03 | Weight: | 190 | College: | Bucknell’09 | ||||
| Girton Kellar Lenhart | Born: | 1884 | Died: | Jan, 1911 | Hometown: | Lewisburg, Pa. | ||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG |
| 1906-07 | Bucknell | College | ||||||||
| 1907-08 | Bucknell | College | ||||||||
| 1908-09 | Bucknell | College | ||||||||
| 1909-10 | Johnstown | CBL | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.7 | |||
| Major League Totals | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.7 | |||||
| CHARLES LEMPKEN | Height: | Weight: | College: | None | |||||||
| Cjarles Louis Lempken | Born: Mar 4, 1878 | Died: 1941 | Hometown: | Trenton, NJ | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1899-00 | Trenton Nitz | Indep | |||||||||
| 1899-00 | Bristol | NBL | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1.0 | ||||
| 1900-01 | Burlington | NBL | 7 | 9 | 24 | 42 | 6.0 | ||||
| 1902-03 | Trenton Yetmans | Indep | |||||||||
| 1903-04 | Trenton Yemans | Indep | |||||||||
| 1910-11 | Morrisville | BCBL | 9 | 15 | 8 | 38 | 4.2 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 9 | 10 | 24 | 44 | 4.9 | ||||||
| ### LELAND | Height: | Weight: | College: | ||||||||
| Born: | Died: | Hometown: | |||||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1916-17 | Hazleton | PSL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 | ||||||
Joe Leithead was one of the most important figures of early professional basketball in Pittsburgh. When he was just 18 years old, he organized the South Side YMCA’s entry into the city’s Junior Basketball League where they won championships in 1901 and 1902. In the fall of 1902, South Side joined the faster Allegheny County League and proceeded to win championships the next two years with 17-3 and 20-0 records. From the fall of 1904 through the spring of 1906, South Side posted a 70-7 record playing against the best independent teams in Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1906, Leithead served an integral role in the formation on the Central Basketball League and served as league secretary the first season. South Side entered the new league as the most successful team in Western Pennsylvania over the past six seasons. In the early weeks of the season, however, East Liverpool and Greensburg dominated the the league with players imported from Philadelphia. Leithead realized he needed to upgrade his roster to be competitive. Seventeen games into the season, Leithead stepped aside as player-coach and signed Trenton star Harry Hough to lead a squad of newly-signed imported players to represent South Side. The newly constituted team won the second half of the CBL season with a 16-3 record. Leithead later served as president of the CBL for two seasons.
| JOE LEITHEAD | Height: | 5:08 | Weight: | 140 | College: | None | |||||
| Joseph Meech Leithead | Born: Jul 17, 1882 | Died: Jul 2, 1958 | Hometown: | Pittsburgh, Pa. | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1900-01 | Pittsburgh South Side | Indep | |||||||||
| 1901-02 | Pittsburgh South Side | Indep | |||||||||
| 1902-03 | PIttsburgh South Side | ACL | 18 | 30 | 4 | 64 | 3.6 | ||||
| 1903-04 | Pittsburgh South Side | ACL | 17 | 22 | 18 | 62 | 3.6 | ||||
| 1904-05 | Pittsburgh South Side | Indep | |||||||||
| 1905-06 | PIttsburgh South Side | OPBL | |||||||||
| 1906-07 | Pittsburgh South Side | CBL | 8 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 1.3 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 8 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 1.3 | ||||||
| ### LEITCH | Height: | Weight: | College: | ||||||||
| Born: | Hometown: | ||||||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1931-32 | Brooklyn Jewish Center | MBL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| FRANK LEIGHTON | Height: | 5:11 | Weight: | 175 | College: | None | |||||
| Charles Francis Leighton | Born: Nov 12, 1878 | Died: Nov 24, 1938 | Hometown: | Clinton, Ma. | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1896-97 | Clinton | Indep | |||||||||
| 1897-98 | Clinton | Indep | |||||||||
| 1898-99 | Hudson | MBL | 7 | 16 | 6 | 38 | 5.4 | ||||
| 1899-00 | Clinton | Indep | |||||||||
| 1900-01 | Hudson | MBL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| 1901-02 | Clinton | Indep | |||||||||
| 1902-03 | Hudson | NEBL | 18 | 46 | 0 | 92 | 5.1 | ||||
| 1902-03 | Hudson | MCBL | 25 | 80 | 18 | 178 | 7.1 | ||||
| 1903-04 | Meriden | ABL | 5 | 37 | 0 | 74 | 14.8 | ||||
| 1903-04 | Thompsonville–Ware | WMBL | 16 | 28 | 2 | 58 | 3.6 | ||||
| 1903-04 | Hudson–Lowell | NEBL | 23 | 92 | 0 | 184 | 8.0 | ||||
| 1904-05 | Lowell | NEBL | 54 | 196 | 0 | 392 | 7.3 | ||||
| 1905-06 | Lowell | Indep | |||||||||
| 1906-07 | Lowell | Indep | |||||||||
| 1907-08 | Lowell | Indep | |||||||||
| 1908-09 | Johnstown | CBL | 5 | 17 | 0 | 34 | 6.8 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 149 | 476 | 26 | 978 | 6.6 | ||||||
| PLAYOFF RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1903-04 | Lowell | NEBL | 4 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 3.5 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 4 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 3.5 | ||||||
In an era when talented high school basketball players seldom strayed far from home, Sam Leibowitz, a star at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, set some kind of unofficial distance record when he enrolled at the University of Oregon in 1933. Leibowitz was a two-year starter at Oregon, before he returned to the East in 1937 where he played AAU and professional basketball through the mid-1940’s.
| SAM LEIBOWITZ | Height: | 6:00 | Weight: | 180 | College: | Oregon’36 | |||||
| Samuel Leibowitz | Born: Sep 8, 1912 | Died: Aug 25, 1995 | Hometown: | Brooklyn, NY | |||||||
| Kelly Leibowitz | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1933-34 | Oregon (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1934-35 | Oregon | College | |||||||||
| 1935-36 | Oregon | College | |||||||||
| 1936-37 | Brooklyn | AAU | |||||||||
| 1937-38 | Brooklyn | AAU | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | Brooklyn Flatbush AC | AAU | |||||||||
| 1939-40 | Brooklyn Holy Cross | AAU | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | Brooklyn | AAU | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | Brooklyn Bay Ridge ICC | AAU | |||||||||
| 1942-45 | U.S. Army | Military Service | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | New York | ABL | 4 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 3.5 | ||||
| 1943-44 | New York Americans | ABL | 10 | 11 | 3 | 25 | 2.5 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 14 | 17 | 5 | 39 | 6 | ||||||
| VENTY LEIB | Height: | 5:09 | Weight: | 160 | College: | NYU’34 | |||||
| Aaron Leib | Born: Apr 18, 1912 | Died: Feb 3, 1990 | Hometown: | Brooklyn, NY | |||||||
| Aaron Leibowitz | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1933-34 | N.Y.U. (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1931-32 | N.Y.U. | College | |||||||||
| 1932-33 | N.Y.U. | College | |||||||||
| 1933-34 | N.Y.U. | College | |||||||||
| 1934-35 | New York AC | AAU | |||||||||
| 1935-36 | Atlantic City | EBL | 7 | 17 | 9 | 43 | 6.1 | ||||
| 1935-36 | Newark Hebrews | indep | |||||||||
| 1936-37 | Atlantic City–New York Jewels | ABL | 10 | 13 | 12 | 40 | 4.0 | ||||
| 1936-37 | New York Dux | Indep | |||||||||
| 1936-37 | Newark Hebrews | Indep | |||||||||
| 1937-38 | Kingston–NY Yankees–Brooklyn | ABL | 11 | 20 | 16 | 56 | 5.1 | ||||
| 1937-38 | Larksville | NYPA | 8 | 20 | 28 | 68 | 8.5 | ||||
| 1937-38 | Newark Stars | Indep | |||||||||
| 1937-38 | Newark Hebrews | Indep | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | Brooklyn | ABL | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 2.3 | ||||
| 1938-39 | Newark Hebrews | Indep | |||||||||
| 1939-40 | Newark Hebrews | Indep | |||||||||
| Major League Totals | 25 | 36 | 31 | 103 | 4.1 | ||||||