The Providence Steamrollers were a Basketball Association of America team based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of 2024, the Steamrollers were the last...
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Andy Tonkovich (category Providence Steamrollers draft picks)
overall pick in the 1948 BAA draft by the Providence Steamrollers. Tonkovich played 17 games for the Steamrollers during the 1948–49 BAA season. He left...
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Capitols F/C Bones McKinney, Washington Capitols G Ken Sailors, Providence Steamrollers G John Logan, St. Louis Bombers List of NBA regular season records...
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Tonkovich from Marshall University was selected first overall by the Providence Steamrollers. Four of the first round picks, George Kok, George Hauptfuhrer...
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Bob Brown (basketball, born 1923) (category Providence Steamrollers players)
collegiately for the Miami University. He played for the Providence Steamrollers (1948–49) and Denver Nuggets (1949–50) in the NBA for 82 games. Brown died on July...
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Howie Shannon (category Providence Steamrollers draft picks)
contract to play professionally with the Providence Steamrollers of the BAA. He averaged 13.4 points per game in 1948–49 and was named the league's Rookie...
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Rhode Island Auditorium (redirect from Providence Auditorium)
arena in Providence, Rhode Island, at 1111 North Main Street. It hosted the NBA's Providence Steamrollers from 1946 until 1949, and the Providence Reds ice...
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Ben Scharnus (category Providence Steamrollers players)
Cleveland Rebels in the 1946–47 BAA season and one game for the Providence Steamrollers 1948–49 BAA season. In 1947, Ben was drafted by the Boston Celtics...
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Nat Hickey (category Providence Steamrollers coaches)
for the teams he was coaching. In 1948, at the age of 45, Hickey played two games with the Providence Steamrollers of the Basketball Association of America...
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Brady Walker (category Providence Steamrollers draft picks)
selected in the 1948 BAA Draft by the Providence Steamrollers after a collegiate career at Brigham Young. He played for the Steamrollers, Boston Celtics...
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sometimes without comment. The Indianapolis Jets and Providence Steamrollers folded after the 1948–49 season, leaving the BAA with 10 teams. Excluding...
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from Kansas State University was selected first overall by the Providence Steamrollers. However, Ed Macauley and Vern Mikkelsen were selected before the...
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Red Dehnert (category Providence Steamrollers players)
an American professional basketball player. He played for the Providence Steamrollers for 10 games during the 1946–47 BAA season. He is the nephew of...
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Mel Thurston (category Providence Steamrollers players)
Blackhawks between 1946 and 1948 when they were still in the National Basketball League, then played for the Providence Steamrollers of the Basketball Association...
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teams joined with the ten BAA teams; the Indianapolis Jets and the Providence Steamrollers folded prior to the merger. The Indianapolis Olympians, a planned...
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Ernie Calverley (category Providence Steamrollers players)
professionally with the Providence Steamrollers of the Basketball Association of America for three seasons from 1946 to 1949. Calverley led the league...
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Bulldogs, Cleveland Bulldogs/Indians, Frankford Yellow Jackets, and Providence Steamrollers) had previously won NFL championships. The most recent franchise...
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Ray Wertis (category Providence Steamrollers players)
and cash. In the 1947–48 BAA season, Ray played for the Providence Steamrollers. In the 1948–1949 season, Ray played with the Saratoga Indians of the New...
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basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 4, 2009. "Providence Steamrollers". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July...
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Otto Schnellbacher (category Providence Steamrollers draft picks)
played for the Basketball Association of America's Providence Steamrollers and St. Louis Bombers in 1948–49 season. In college, Schnellbacher was a two-sport...
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George Grimshaw (basketball) (category Providence Steamrollers players)
played one season in the Basketball Association of America for the Providence Steamrollers, averaging 2.9 points per game. Though expected to continue playing...
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Carl Meinhold (category Providence Steamrollers players)
played two seasons (1947–1949) in the Basketball Association of America as a member of the Baltimore Bullets, Providence Steamrollers and Chicago Stags, He...
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Earl Shannon (category Providence Steamrollers players)
played for the Providence Steamrollers of the Basketball Association of America for three seasons, before being released by the team in 1949 and signing...
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Indianapolis Jets (category Basketball teams disestablished in 1949)
their original name. Following the 1948–49 season, the Jets folded alongside the Providence Steamrollers on August 3, 1949. This coincided with the BAA and...
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Johnny Ezersky (category Providence Steamrollers players)
in the 1947 BAA draft. He was not resigned by either team following the 1949–50 NBA season, so he spent his final two seasons playing basketball in the...
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Bob Royer (category Providence Steamrollers draft picks)
selected in the eighth round in the 1949 BAA Draft by the Providence Steamrollers. He played for the Denver Nuggets in 1949–50 before ending his NBA career...
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Second Team G John Logan, St. Louis Bombers G Ernie Calverley, Providence Steamrollers C Chick Halbert, Chicago Stags G Frankie Baumholtz, Cleveland Rebels...
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Rhode Island (redirect from Providence Plantations)
soccer. The now-defunct professional football team known as the Providence Steamrollers won the 1928 NFL title. They played in a 10,000 person stadium...
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Hust Stockton (category Providence Steam Roller players)
in 1929, Stockton split time between the Boston Bulldogs and the Providence Steamroller. He was the grandfather of basketball Hall of Fame inductee, John...
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who was coaching the Providence Steamrollers at the time, decided to activate himself and played in a game for the Steamrollers. In his first game as...
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