STATISTICS & HISTORY
Paul Nowak was a basketball star at Central High School in South Bend, Indiana. He went to college at Notre Dame were he played for future Hall of Fame coach George Keogan. Nowak was was a three-time (1936, 1937, 1938) All-American for the Irish. Nowak found immediate success in professional basketball. In his first two seasons (1939 and 1940), he was the starting center for the National Basketball League champion Akron Firestone Non-Skids.
| PAUL NOWAK | Height: | 6:06 | Weight: | 205 | College: | Notre Dame’38 | |||||
| Paul Thomas Nowak | Born: Mar 15, 1914 | Died: Dec 27, 1982 | Hometown: | South Bend, Ind. | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1934-35 | Notre Dame (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1935-36 | Notre Dame | College | 23 | 65 | 31 | 161 | 7.0 | ||||
| 1936-37 | Notre Dame | College | 21 | 56 | 40 | 152 | 7.2 | ||||
| 1937-38 | Notre Dame | College | 23 | 68 | 37 | 173 | 7.5 | ||||
| 1938-39 | Akron Firestones | NBL | 15 | 33 | 14 | 80 | 5.3 | ||||
| 1939-40 | Akron Firestones | NBL | 26 | 45 | 34 | 87 | .391 | 124 | 4.8 | ||
| 1940-41 | Akron Firestones | NBL | 18 | 13 | 19 | 30 | .633 | 45 | 2.5 | ||
| 1941-42 | Toledo | NBL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| 1941-42 | East Liverpool Fleetwings | Indep | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | Rochester Seagrams | Indep | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | Rochester Eber Seagrams | Indep | 4 | 9 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 6.3 | |||
| 1943-44 | Philadelphia | ABL | 13 | 18 | 9 | 45 | 3.5 | ||||
| 1943-46 | U.S. Navy | Military Service | |||||||||
| Major League Totals | 73 | 109 | 76 | 294 | 4.0 | ||||||
| PLAYOFF RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1939-40 | Akron Firestones | NBL | 8 | 13 | 8 | 34 | 4.3 | ||||
| 1940-41 | Akron Firestones | NBL | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3.5 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 10 | 14 | 13 | 41 | 4.1 | ||||||