Providence Steamrollers 1948-49 Roster - Season and Playoffs

Full list of players that played for the Providence Steamrollers in the 1948-49 NBA Regular Season and the 1949 NBA Playoffs with their jersey number, position, height, birthdate, draft information, games played and some basic stats.

The Providence Steamrollers used 20 players in the 1948-49 Regular Season.

Les Pugh is the player from this roster with the most regular season games played, with 60.

Note: Here you have the complete list of players that played in at least 1 game in 1949, ordered by games played and then alphabetically.

Regular Season: 12-48 (.200), 6th in Eastern Division
Playoffs: DNQ

Jersey	Player	Season	Playoffs
8	Les Pugh Center / Forward 6-7 born Sep. 18, 1923	60 games 7.7 pts - reb 1.0 ast
3	Ernie Calverley Guard 5-10 born Jan. 30, 1924	59 games 9.4 pts - reb 4.3 ast
16	Brady Walker Forward / Center 6-6 born Mar. 15, 1921 drafted in 1948 (by the Steamrollers)	59 games 8.3 pts - reb 1.2 ast
4	Kenny Sailors Guard 5-10 born Jan. 14, 1922	57 games 15.8 pts - reb 3.7 ast
9	Howie Shannon Guard / Forward 6-2 born Jun. 10, 1923 drafted 1st in 1949 (by the Steamrollers)	55 games 13.4 pts - reb 2.3 ast

Jersey	Player	Season	Playoffs
11	Carl Meinhold Guard / Forward 6-2 born Mar. 29, 1926	35 games 6.3 pts - reb 1.1 ast
10	Bob Hubbard Center / Forward 6-6 born Dec. 27, 1922 drafted in 1947 (by the Steamrollers)	34 games 2.1 pts - reb 0.5 ast
6	George Nostrand Center / Forward 6-8 born Jan. 25, 1924	33 games 9.8 pts - reb 1.7 ast
6	Chick Halbert Center 6-9 born Feb. 27, 1919	27 games 11.4 pts - reb 1.9 ast
5	Earl Shannon Guard / Forward 5-11 born Nov. 23, 1921	27 games 3.8 pts - reb 1.5 ast

Jersey	Player	Season	Playoffs
12	Giff Roux Forward / Center 6-5 born Jun. 28, 1923	26 games 1.9 pts - reb 0.3 ast
7	Otto Schnellbacher Forward / Guard 6-4 born Apr. 15, 1923	23 games 4.4 pts - reb 0.8 ast
11	Bob Brown Forward 6-4 born Nov. 12, 1923	20 games 5.4 pts - reb 0.7 ast
UN	Buddy O'Grady Guard 5-11 born Jan. 19, 1920	17 games 4.8 pts - reb 1.5 ast
7	Andy Tonkovich Guard 6-1 born Nov. 1, 1922 drafted 1st in 1948 (by the Steamrollers)	17 games 2.6 pts - reb 0.6 ast

Jersey	Player	Season	Playoffs
12	Lee Robbins Forward 6-3 born Feb. 11, 1922	16 games 1.8 pts - reb 0.8 ast
UN	Johnny Ezersky Forward / Guard 6-3 born Nov. 30, -0001 drafted in 1947 (by the Celtics)	11 games 4.8 pts - reb 1.0 ast
5	Mel Riebe Guard / Forward 5-11 born Jul. 12, 1916	10 games 6.1 pts - reb 0.9 ast
UN	Fred Paine Forward 6-5 born Dec. 7, 1925	3 games 2.3 pts - reb 0.3 ast
15	Ben Scharnus Forward 6-2 born Dec. 11, 1917	1 game 0.0 pts - reb 0.0 ast