Gene Englund

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Gene Englund
Tri-Cities Blackhawks
As coach:
1949Oshkosh All-Stars (interim HC)
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points
360
ReboundsNot tracked
Assists41
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Gene Eniar Englund (October 21, 1917 – November 5, 1995)

NCAA national championship.[3][4]

Early life

Englund was born in

Kenosha High School in Kenosha where he graduated in 1936.[5] When deciding where to play college basketball, he decided to stick close to home and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin (now University of Wisconsin–Madison
).

College

As a 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), 205-lb (93 kg)

MVP.[3] Additionally, he (alongside star teammate John Kotz) led Wisconsin to the school's first and only men's basketball national championship when they defeated Washington State, 39–34.[3] At the end of the season Englund was named a consensus Second Team All-American
.

Professional career

When Englund graduated from college in the spring of 1941, the major professional basketball league was the National Basketball League (NBL). From the 1941–42 season through the 1943–44 one, and again from 1946 to 1949, he played for the NBL's Oshkosh All-Stars (in 1943–44 he also played for the American Basketball League's Brooklyn Indians).[6][7] Englund won the NBL Championship as a rookie in 1941–42, leading his team in scoring while making seven field goals and three free throws en route to 17 points.[6] The All-Stars also lost the NBL championships in 1942–43 and 1945–46 while Englund played for them. Although he was never a superstar in the league, he did manage to finish third all-time in NBL points scored when the league merged with the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1949, resulting in the formation of the present-day NBA.[7] Most of the way into the 1948–49 season with Oshkosh, then-coach Lon Darling resigned and Englund took over as a player-coach for the remainder of the year.[8] He compiled a 3–1 regular season record and a 3–4 playoffs record as coach.[8]

At age 32 in 1949–50, Englund was well past his basketball playing prime. He lasted only one season in the NBA, splitting the year with first the

Tri-Cities Blackhawks.[2] After playing in 24 games for the Celtics while averaging 8.2 points per game, he was traded on January 29, 1950 for John Mahnken.[2] Englund finished the year out by appearing in 22 games for Tri-Cities and averaged 7.5 points per game.[2]

Later life

After his playing career was over, Englund became an official for the Big Ten and NBA.[9] He died on November 5, 1995, in Winnebago, Wisconsin.[1]

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played  FG%  Field-goal percentage
 FT%  Free-throw percentage  APG  Assists per game
 PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

Regular season

Year Team GP FG% FT% APG PPG
1949–50 Boston 24 .372 .811 .7 8.2
1949–50 Tri-Cities 22 .389 .767 1.1 7.5
Career 46 .380 .792 .9 7.8

Playoffs

Year Team GP FG% FT% APG PPG
1950
 Tri-Cities 2 .200 .818 .5 5.5
Career 2 .200 .818 .5 5.5

References

  1. ^ a b "Englund, Gene". Social Security Death Index. Ancestry.com. 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Gene Englund". basketball-reference.com. 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d "1940-41 Men's Basketball Team: UW–Madison's First and Only NCAA Champions". archives.library.wisc.edu. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. 2005. Archived from the original on 10 June 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  4. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ "Gene Englund Past Stats". databaseBasketball.com. databaseSports.com. 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  6. ^ a b "LeRoy Edwards: Oshkosh All-Stars". BigBlueHistory.net. 1996. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  7. ^ a b "The Early Stars of Basketball". NBAhoopsonline.com. 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  8. ^
    ISBN 0-8108-4007-3
    .
  9. ^ "Vintage Basketball Autographs: Hoop Stars of the Past (1920s thru 1960s)". Gene Englund (1917–1995). Mel Bashore. 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2010.

External links

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