STATISTICS & HISTORY
Wilmeth Sidat-Singh was named first-team All-City in basketball and led DeWitt Clinton to the New York City Public High School championship. In 1935, Singh enrolled in the pre-med program at Syracuse University and soon established himself as an outstanding collegian athlete. During his senior year, he starred at quarterback on the football team and was the leading scorer on the basketball team. Sidat-Singh played professional basketball in the early 1940’s with the New York Rens and Washington Bears. With the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the Army and was accepted into the all-black Tuskegee Airmen fighter squadron. Sidat-Singh died in a plane crash in May of 1943, at the age of 25.
| WILMETH SIDAT-SINGH | Height: | 5:10 | Weight: | 175 | College: | Syracuse’39 | |||||
| Wilmeth Webb | Born: Feb 5, 1918 | Died: May 9, 1943 | Hometown: | Bronx, NY | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1935-36 | Syracuse (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1936-37 | Syracuse | College | 13 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 0.9 | ||||
| 1937-38 | Syracuse | College | 11 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 1.8 | ||||
| 1938-39 | Syracuse | College | 17 | 62 | 22 | 146 | 8.6 | ||||
| 1938-39 | Syracuse Seniors | Indep | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | Syracse All-Syracuse | Indep | |||||||||
| 1939-40 | Syracuse Reds | NYSL | 7 | 28 | 13 | 69 | 9.9 | ||||
| 1939-40 | Rochester Seagrams | Indep | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | Syracuse Reds | Indep | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | New York Rens | Indep | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | Washington Bruins | Indep | 3 | 16 | 7 | 39 | 13.0 | ||||
| 1941-43 | U.S. Army Air Corp. | Military Service | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | New York Rens | Indep | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | Washington Bears | Indep | 25 | 160 | 87 | 407 | 16.3 | ||||
| 1942-43 | Washington Bears | Indep | |||||||||
| POST SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1939-40 | Rochester Seagrams | WBT | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | .600 | 9 | 9.0 | ||
| 1940-41 | New York Rens | WBT | 3 | 10 | 2 | 3 | .667 | 22 | 7.3 | ||
| Major League Totals | 4 | 13 | 5 | 8 | .625 | 31 | 7.8 | ||||