STATISTICS & HISTORY
William “Bill” Zirkel” was a high scoring scholastic basketball star at Fanklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn. As a freshmen, Zirkel played varsity basketball at the University of West Virginia. Zirkel was the third leading scorer at 11.9 points per game on the Mountaineers’ team tha posted a 19-3 record and was rated one of the top teams in the country. Ziirkel seemed primed for stardom, but surprisingly dropped out at the end of the school year. Zirkel, ( known by the first name “Willie) , played played minor league professional basketball for a half-dozen seasons and made a one game appearance in the World Professional Basketball Tournament in 1948.
| WILLIE ZIRKEL | Height: | 6:03 | Weight: | 165 | College: | West Virginia’47 | |||||
| William Frederick Zirkel | Born: Jul 20 1927 | Died:Oct 24, 2011 | Hometown: | Brooklyn, NY | |||||||
| Bill Zirkel | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1946-47 | West Virginia | College | 22 | 262 | 11.9 | ||||||
| 1947-48 | New Britain Newfields | Indep | |||||||||
| 1947-48 | Trenton | ABL | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .200 | 13 | 2.2 | ||
| 1948-49 | Bridgeport | ABL | 40 | 220 | 156 | 218 | .716 | 596 | 14.9 | ||
| 1949-50 | Bridgeport | ABL | 34 | 110 | 43 | 82 | .524 | 27 | 263 | 7.7 | |
| 1950-52 | U.S. Army | Military Service | |||||||||
| 1951-52 | Bridgeport | ABL | 4 | 5 | 13 | 13.0 | |||||
| 1952-53 | Middleton-Scranton | ABL | 15 | 86 | 58 | 82 | . | 230 | 15.3 | ||
| 1953-54 | Bristol | ECBL | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3.0 | ||||
| POST SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1947-48 | Bridgeport Newfields | WBT | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | .400 | 12 | 12.0 | ||
| 1949-50 | Bridgeport | ABL | 8 | 16 | 10 | 42 | 5.3 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | .400 | 12 | 12.0 | ||||