STATISTICS & HISTORY
Tony Kelly was a star athlete at Mt. Carmel High School in Chicago. Kelly was the best player on the 1937-38 Marquette University freshman basketball squad, but sat out the following year because of bone operation on his foot and the following season played only 7 games because of continuing foot problems. In 1940, Kelley returned to Chicago and enrolled at DePaul University and played AAU basketball with the Palmer Hotel team that won the Chicago city championship. Kelly was finally healthy enough to return full time to the sport in the fall of 1941. He enjoyed two standout seasons at DePaul and was captain of the 1942-43 squad. After graduation from DePaul, Kelly played professional basketball for five years including three seasons for Sheboygan in the National Basketball League . During the 1946-47 season, Kelly played for the Baltimore Bullets who posted a 31-3 record in the American Basketball League.
| TONY KELLY | Height: | 6:01 | Weight: | 175 | College: | Marquette’40 / DePaul’43 | |||||
| Anthony Michael Kelly | Born: | Feb 18, 1919 | Died: Mar 1, 1987 | Hometown: | Chicago, Ill. | ||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1937-38 | Marquette (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | Marquette | College | Did Not Play – Injured | ||||||||
| 1939-40 | Marquette | College | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | Chicago Palmer House | AAU | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | DePaul | College | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | DePaul | College | |||||||||
| 1943-44 | Sheboygan | NBL | 19 | 40 | 30 | 44 | .682 | 110 | 5.8 | ||
| 1944-45 | Sheboygan | NBL | 28 | 35 | 35 | 53 | .660 | 105 | 3.8 | ||
| 1945-46 | Sheboygan | NBL | 29 | 26 | 29 | 48 | .604 | 81 | 2.8 | ||
| 1946-47 | Baltimore | ABL | 33 | 63 | 26 | 152 | 4.6 | ||||
| 1947-48 | Chattanooga | PBLA | 5 | 13 | 3 | 4 | .750 | 29 | 5.8 | ||
| 1947-48 | Saratoga | NYSL | 23 | 128 | 5.6 | ||||||
| 1948-49 | Mohawk | NYSL | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | ||||||
| Major League Totals | 81 | 114 | 97 | 149 | .651 | 325 | 4.0 | ||||
| PLAYOFF RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1943-44 | Sheboyga | NBL | 6 | 13 | 8 | 13 | .615 | 34 | 5.7 | ||
| 1943-44 | Sheboygan | WBT | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 8 | 8.0 | ||
| 1944-45 | Sheboygan | NBL | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 1.000 | 29 | 3.6 | ||
| 1945-46 | Sheboygan | NBL | 8 | 11 | 7 | 29 | 3.6 | ||||
| 1945-46 | Sheboygan | WBT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 2 | 2.0 | ||
| 1946-47 | Baltimore | ABL | 3 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 7.3 | ||||
| 1946-47 | Baltimore | WBT | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | .750 | 7 | 7.0 | ||
| 1948-49 | Mohawk | NYSL | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | ||||||
| Major League Totals | 25 | 38 | 29 | 105 | 4.2 | ||||||