George Glasco was a high school basketball star in Trenton, New Jersey. He broke into professional basketball with the Germantown Eastern Basketball League 1920-21 team. The wide-eyed 19-year old year found himself playing beside two giants of the early pro game, Winnie Kincaide and Harry Hough. Unfortunately, both players were close to 40 years old and playing on pure guile. The team struggled to win only five of their first twenty games. Inserted into the starting lineup, Glasco’s speed and enthusiasm revitalized Germantown. The energized squad won 16 of 20 games on route to the second-half title and then crushed Reading in the playoffs to win the EBL title. After the EBL disbanded in January of 1923, Glasco spent three successful seasons in the Metropolitan League and five more in the American Basketball League. In 1929- 30, his final ABL season, he was a member of the champion Cleveland Rosenblooms. Glasco played forward during most of his 15-year pro career. He was a good shooter and an outstanding two-handed dribbler. His game was characterized by speed.  No defender could stay with Glasco long enough to prevent his gazelle-like dashes to the basket.In 1932, Glasco joined his hometown EBL Trenton squad at mid-season. After he arrival, the team won 14 of 15 regular season games and then defeated the Philadelphia Sphas in the playoffs to win the championship. Both teams joined the reincarnated ABL the next season where they quickly renewed their battle for supremacy. Each club won a half of the ABL split-season, but Philadelphia prevailed in title series. Glasco played in the majors for another season and half and remained active in Trenton basketball circles as a player and coach throughout the decade.

GEORGE GLAMACK was an excellent athlete who overcame extreme near sightedness to become a college and professional star. Glamack was known as the “Blind Bomber” because he wore glasses as thick as coke bottles. Despite the handicap, the Allentown, Pennsylvania native went on to become a two-time All- American at North Carolina and the fourth highest scorer in college history at the time of his graduation in 1941. Glamack entered pro basketball in the 1941-42 season as a member of the Akron Goodyears in the National Basketball League. He finished fifth in individual scoring and was named second-team All-League. During World War II, Glamack starred for the powerful Great Lakes Naval Training Center team.He returned to pro basketball in 1945 as a member of the NBL Rochester Royals and enjoyed his greatest season. The Royals captured the 1945-46 NBL championship. Glamack led the team in scoring and was named a first-team all-league selection. He helped the team to the finals again the next season, but they lost to the George Mikan-led Chicago Gears. Glamack played for two more seasons in the NBL with undistinguished teams. In 1950, he was lured out of a one-year retirement to join Bobby McDermott as part owner of the Grand Rapids franchise in the National Professional Basketball League, a successor to the old National League. The venture turned out to out to be ill-fated and after two months the team disbanded and Glamack retired for good.

John Givens was a three-sport star at McHenry High School in Louisville. After service in the  the U.S. Army Air Corp. during World War II, Givins  attended Western Kentucky University were he played varisty basketball for four years. Givins played professional basketball for one season with the Sheboygan Redskins, who won the championship of the National Professional Basketball League. Givens coached high school basketball in Indiana from 1952 until 1964 and then had had a successful three year stint at Highlands University in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the 1967-68 season, Givens coached the the Kentucky Colonels in the inagural season of the American Basketball Association.

Hymie Ginsburg was a star all-around athlete at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania  High School. Ginsburg remained in Beaver Fall to attend Geneva College, where he again excelled in sports. Geneva was a small college, but played basketball against many of the best teams in the East. In a memorable week in 1934, Geneva shattered wining streaks of  both  LIU and CCNY. Led by thirteen points by Ginsburg, Geneva defeated CCNY 50-27, the worst defeat in Hall of Fame coach Nat Holman’s career. Ginsburg played major league professional basketball in Pittsburgh  for four seasons.