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Sheboygan Red Skins
The Sheboygan Red Skins (or Redskins) were a professional basketball team based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, which was an original National Basketball Association franchise during the 1949–50 season.
The Red Skins played in three professional leagues and as an independent team. The leagues were, in order, the National Basketball League (NBL member from 1938–1949); the National Basketball Association (charter member of the NBA during its 1949–1950 season), and the National Professional Basketball League (founding NPBL member for the short-lived 1950–1951 season).
The team first originated in 1933 from informal clubs that were sponsored by local businesses. During their first two years of existence, they originally played as "The Ballhorns" (or rather, just Ballhorns) due to them being sponsored by a local florist and funeral parlor during that time, before their sponsorship changed hands to having them be named the "Art Imigs" (with their jerseys being spelled out as "Art Imig's") due to them being sponsored by a local dry cleaning shop owned by a man named Art Imig for two more seasons before having the more well-known precursor name of the "Enzo Jels" (sometime misspelled as the "Enzo Gels") due to them being sponsored by a local gelatin manufacturer called Enzo-Pac. Due to being one of the best competing teams in the nation after the NBL's debut season under that name (they originally started out as the Midwest Basketball Conference in 1935 before becoming the National Basketball League two years later), they would join the NBL by New Year's Eve of 1938 as the "Sheboygan Red Skins", which were owned by a syndicate within the city of Sheboygan instead of a sponsor. The Red Skins continued playing in the NBL from 1938 to 1949, with them leading the league in defense five times, appearing in five NBL championship matches there, and winning that league's 1942–43 title, defeating the league-leading Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (today's Detroit Pistons) in the 1943 NBL Finals despite finishing that season with a 12–11 record.
They were undone by the merger of the NBL and the BAA. The other league which merged to form the NBA (the Basketball Association of America) had more money, played in larger cities, and generally fielded better teams.
The Red Skins were one of seven franchises which quickly left the NBA. The league contracted after the 1949–1950 season, losing six teams; the Anderson Packers, Denver Nuggets, Sheboygan Red Skins, and Waterloo Hawks jumped ship out of the NBA to create the NPBL (with the original Nuggets franchise rebranding themselves to be the Denver Frontier Refiners in the process), while the St. Louis Bombers and Chicago Stags folded. The NBA shrank from 17 teams to 11 before the 1950–1951 season began. The Washington Capitols folded midway through the season, reducing the number of teams in the league to ten.
The Red Skins did not fit well, left the league, and joined the short-lived NPBL. When that league folded, the team returned to its independent roots for one more year of play before it also disappeared.
The team formed in Sheboygan as the Ballhorns in 1933. Sponsors changed every couple of years, and the team changed its name to match its current sponsor. Successful playing regional rivals and distant touring teams, they were invited to join the fledgling NBL in 1938. Now a full-time professional organization with an extensive traveling schedule, it took more than one local business to support the team. A syndicate of Sheboygan community members incorporated the team as the Red Skins, and they gradually became successful.
Before joining the NBL, Sheboygan had developed a reputation in the Midwest during the early 1930s for successful industrial-league and barnstorming teams. The Ballhorns, sponsored by a local furniture store and funeral parlor, began in 1933; local tailor and dry cleaner Art Imig took over in 1935, and gelatin producer Enzo-Pac sponsored the team two years later.
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Sheboygan Red Skins
The Sheboygan Red Skins (or Redskins) were a professional basketball team based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, which was an original National Basketball Association franchise during the 1949–50 season.
The Red Skins played in three professional leagues and as an independent team. The leagues were, in order, the National Basketball League (NBL member from 1938–1949); the National Basketball Association (charter member of the NBA during its 1949–1950 season), and the National Professional Basketball League (founding NPBL member for the short-lived 1950–1951 season).
The team first originated in 1933 from informal clubs that were sponsored by local businesses. During their first two years of existence, they originally played as "The Ballhorns" (or rather, just Ballhorns) due to them being sponsored by a local florist and funeral parlor during that time, before their sponsorship changed hands to having them be named the "Art Imigs" (with their jerseys being spelled out as "Art Imig's") due to them being sponsored by a local dry cleaning shop owned by a man named Art Imig for two more seasons before having the more well-known precursor name of the "Enzo Jels" (sometime misspelled as the "Enzo Gels") due to them being sponsored by a local gelatin manufacturer called Enzo-Pac. Due to being one of the best competing teams in the nation after the NBL's debut season under that name (they originally started out as the Midwest Basketball Conference in 1935 before becoming the National Basketball League two years later), they would join the NBL by New Year's Eve of 1938 as the "Sheboygan Red Skins", which were owned by a syndicate within the city of Sheboygan instead of a sponsor. The Red Skins continued playing in the NBL from 1938 to 1949, with them leading the league in defense five times, appearing in five NBL championship matches there, and winning that league's 1942–43 title, defeating the league-leading Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (today's Detroit Pistons) in the 1943 NBL Finals despite finishing that season with a 12–11 record.
They were undone by the merger of the NBL and the BAA. The other league which merged to form the NBA (the Basketball Association of America) had more money, played in larger cities, and generally fielded better teams.
The Red Skins were one of seven franchises which quickly left the NBA. The league contracted after the 1949–1950 season, losing six teams; the Anderson Packers, Denver Nuggets, Sheboygan Red Skins, and Waterloo Hawks jumped ship out of the NBA to create the NPBL (with the original Nuggets franchise rebranding themselves to be the Denver Frontier Refiners in the process), while the St. Louis Bombers and Chicago Stags folded. The NBA shrank from 17 teams to 11 before the 1950–1951 season began. The Washington Capitols folded midway through the season, reducing the number of teams in the league to ten.
The Red Skins did not fit well, left the league, and joined the short-lived NPBL. When that league folded, the team returned to its independent roots for one more year of play before it also disappeared.
The team formed in Sheboygan as the Ballhorns in 1933. Sponsors changed every couple of years, and the team changed its name to match its current sponsor. Successful playing regional rivals and distant touring teams, they were invited to join the fledgling NBL in 1938. Now a full-time professional organization with an extensive traveling schedule, it took more than one local business to support the team. A syndicate of Sheboygan community members incorporated the team as the Red Skins, and they gradually became successful.
Before joining the NBL, Sheboygan had developed a reputation in the Midwest during the early 1930s for successful industrial-league and barnstorming teams. The Ballhorns, sponsored by a local furniture store and funeral parlor, began in 1933; local tailor and dry cleaner Art Imig took over in 1935, and gelatin producer Enzo-Pac sponsored the team two years later.