PLAYER PROFILE

WHITEY VonNIEDA

STATISTICS & HISTORY

Stanley “Whitey” Von Nieda was a star athlete at Ephrata, Pennsylvania High School. Von Nieda played one year of varsity basketball  at Penn State University before entering the army where he served as paratrooper during World War II. After the war, Von Nieda returned to Penn State but did not participate in collegiate sports.  Instead, he signed to play for the Lancaster Red Roses where he averaged  23 points a game and led the professional Eastern Basketball League in scoring by a wide margin.  Von Nieda followed up with two seasons as a double-digit scorer for the Tri-City Blackhawks in the National Basketball League. Von Nieda was equally adapt as the primary backcourt ballhandler  or playing up front under the basket.  Despite his slender  6-foot-1 frame, Von Nieda was a very effective rebounder.  Midway through his third season with  Tri-City, Von Nieda was traded  to Baltimore by new Blackhawks’ coach, Red Auerbach.  Prior to  the 1951-52 season, Von Nieda left the NBA  and signed to play again for Lancaster in the Eastern Basketball League and to be head basketball coach at Elizabethtown College at the same time. In an era of very modest NBA salaries, the duel positions  near his hometown in Pennsylvania made more sense financially than continuing to play in the NBA.

 

WHITEY VON NIEDA Height: 6:01 Weight: 170 College: Penn State’43
Stanley Lee Von Nieda Jr. Born:  Jun 19, 1922 Hometown: Ephrata, Pa.
Stan Von Nieda REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
`941-42 Penn State (Frosh) College
1942-43 Penn State College
1943-46 U.S. Army Military Service
1946-47 Lancaster EBL 30 256 170 682 22.7
1947-48 Tri-Cities NBL 60 276 174 287 .606 726 12.1
1948-49 Tri-Cities NBL 64 247 147 226 .650 641 10.0
1949-50 Tri-CitiesBaltimore NBA 59 120 73 115 .635 143 313 5.3
1950-51 Lancaster EBL 26 149 79 377 14.5
1951-52 Lancaster EBL 21 79 52 210 10.0
1952-53 Lancaster EBL 20 54 47 155 7.8
Major League Totals 190 649 398 1696 8.9
POST SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1946-47 Lancaster EBL 5 35 29 99 19.8
1946-47 Tri-Cities WBT 2 7 2 2 1.000 16 8.0
1947-48 Tri-Cities NBL 7 48 17 30 .567 113 16.1
1947-48 Tri-Cities WBT 3 14 10 18 .556 38 12.7
1948-49 ri-Cities NBL 6 20 13 24 .542 53 8.8
1950-51 Lancaster EBL 1 1 2 4 4.0
1951-52 Lancaster EBL 2 11 5 27 13.5
1952-53 Lancaster EBL 1 6 4 16 16.0
Major League Totals 18 89 42 74 .568 220 12.2

 

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