Attempt To Save Franchise
In summer 1951, longtime Red Skins president Magnus Brinkman led a drive to form an organization that would have been called the Western Basketball Association, consisting of eight to 10 teams and looking to include two fellow NBA castoffs, the Waterloo Hawks and the Anderson Packers. But competition from the NBA became too great and the effort failed.
Instead, the Red Skins played one season of independent basketball, in 1951–52, before hanging it up. Bobby Cook, who had scored an NBA-record 44 points in a Red Skins home game against the Denver Nuggets in January 1950, coached the team. That final Sheboygan Red Skins team consisted of several former University of Wisconsin players and compiled a winning record, primarily playing other Midwest barnstorming, or independent, teams. However, sparse crowds attended and the team discontinued operations after losing its final game, to the College All-Stars at the Sheboygan Municipal Auditorium and Armory.
Read more about this topic: Sheboygan Red Skins
Famous quotes containing the words attempt to, attempt, save and/or franchise:
“The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the State of Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near our border, have served the good purpose of calling public attention to an evil of vast proportions.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical terms.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but rather intellectual biologists and psychologists.”
—Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)