NEW YORK WESTCHESTERS - 1944-1945

On January 20, 1945, the franchise moved from  White Plains, New York to Brooklyn.

Played home games at the White Plains Community Center  until move to Brooklyn.

Home games in Brooklyn  were  played  at St.Nicholas Arena – Seating capacity – 5,000

 

NEW YORK WESTCHESTERS  ABL  11-15         HONEY RUSSELL
REGULAR SEASON
PLAYER POS AGE HGT WGT COLLEGE TRANSACTIONS  GA FGM FTM PTS AVG
Dick Fitzgerald F-G 23 6:02 175 Fordham’42 23 59 28 146 6.3
Red Wallace F-G 26 6:01 185 Scranton’41 13 48 27 123 9.5
Howie Bollerman C 37 6:08 200 Colgate’29 15 36 15 87 5.8
Hook Andersen G 32 5:11 175 NYU’34 18 47 42 136 7.6
Sonny Hertzberg G-F 22 6:00 175 CCNY’42 17 47 20 114 6.7
Lou Spindell G 36 5:10 175 CCNY’30 22 43 15 101 4.6
John O’Brien F-G 28 6:01 180 Columbia’38               fr Paterson 15 39 18 96 6.4
Bob Davies G-F 24 6:01 175 Seton Hall’42 5 21 21 63 12.6
Bob Fitzgerald C 21 6:05 190 Seton Hall’43 6 19 16 54 9.0
Warren Fenley F-C 22 6:03 190 Manhattan’43 14 17 12 46 3.3
Allie Schuckman G 35 5:08 170 LIU/St.John’s(NY)’31 16 6 7 19 1.2
Tony Bodego F-C 22 6:03 185  None 22 13 3 29 1.3
Lee Craddock F-C 27 6:03 220 Rice’40        Military Service 6 7 3 17 2.8
Honey Russell G 41 6:00 185 None 7 1 0 2 0.3
Tom Gorman F 24 6:03 210 None              Baseball 1 0 0 0 0.0
Mike McCarron G 22 5:11 180 Seton Hall’43 1 0 0 0 0.0
### Criss G 1 0 0 0 0.0
### Merrill G 2 0 0 0 0.0
Abe Gerchick G 26 5:06 140 Brooklyn’40 3 0 0 0 0.0
Zeppy Feiter G 30 5:11 170 None                to Trenton
Julie Bender G 30 5:11 175 LIU’37             to Paterson
Tommy Byrnes F-C 21 6:03 175 Seton Hall’43             to Paterson
Chubby Sherman F 25  6:03  175 NYU 1 1 2 4 4.0
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