1948-49 Troy Celtics (NYSL)

1948-49 TROY CELTICS
NEW YORK STATE PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE


Finished: 2-2 .500

A couple of years after the Celtics dropped from the ABL, they joined the NYSL in fall of 1948. The team barely made it into December, quitting the league on December 12 after two impressive wins over Saratoga and Glens Falls and losses to Cohoes and Schenectady by a combined three points.

Ed Schwartz

Head Coach: 

• Lou Figari (November 13, 1909 - September 5, 1971)

PLAYERS:

• Puggy Bell (November 26, 1914 - February 19, 1985)

• Audley Brindley (December 31, 1923 - November 19, 1957)

• Len Doctor (July 23, 1922 - November 10, 2008)

• Coulby Gunther (February 5, 1923 - July 14, 2005)

• Tony Kappen (April 13, 1919 - December 18, 1993)

• William Knapp 

Jim White

• Mills  

• Bill Pless (June 3, 1928 - October 25, 2001)

• Ed Schwartz  

• Bill Warnecke   

• Jim White (July 14, 1920 - June 18, 1990)