1950-51 Beaver Falls Tommies (AABL)

1950-51 BEAVER FALLS TOMMIES

ALL-AMERICAN BASKETBALL LEAGUE

9-14 .391, 4th place

Semi-Finals: Lost to Erie, 2-1

The Tommies, coached Dom Casey, were a decent enough club at the start. Lead by Dan McComb (Geneva College) and local athlete Dick Peete, the TOmmies were 8-8 when they lost 6 of their remaining 7 games but still managed to grab the last playoff spot by a game over Altoona. In their playoff series, they managed to surprise the heavily-favored Erie club by winning game 2 and forcing the Admirals to a deciding game 3. Al Vlasic, who had wrapped up his season at Geneva College at the end of February, joined the Tommies and scored 30 in his debut against Cumberland, IN the playoff series against Erie, he had 57 points in the series to lead all scorers in defeat.

Hardy Barrett

Head Coach:

• Dom Casey (February 11, 1914 - August 20, 1999)

PLAYERS:

• Hardy Barrett (April 23, 1927 - September 7, 2013)

• Guy Bennett (January 27, 1924 - July 14, 2012)

• Tom Callahan (February 24, 1923 - August 28, 2010)

• Mike Linkovich (February 2, 1922 - December 4, 2022)

• Dan McComb (January 6, 1926 - April 27, 1984)

  

  Dan McComb

  
  

• George Mrvosh (May 8, 1914 - September 15, 1998)

• Stan Navage (April 23, 1924 - August 8, 1996)

• Felix Oliver (October 18, 1920 - March 17, 1990)

• Dick Peete (February 24, 1925 - July 10, 1960)

• Frank Perkovich (February 10, 1913 - April 25, 1962)

• Sciarro  

• Jack Stirling (November 16, 1917 - September 27, 1970)

• Lou Veltri (March 2, 1918 - September 23, 1985)

  

  Guy Bennett

  
  

• Al Vlasic (September 26, 1924 - September 15, 2014)

• Warren Walcott (January 26, 1921 - May 11, 1975)

Dick Peete

Lou Veltri

Felix Oliver