Bennie Borgmann

Bernhard "Bennie" Borgmann (November 22, 1900 – November 11, 1978) was a pioneering professional basketball player.

Born in Haledon, New Jersey, he played for 17 years between 1919 and 1936, and is mostly known for his time with the Kingston Colonials and Original Celtics. Borgmann is regarded as the best offensive player of his era. He also served as the first coach of the Syracuse Nationals of the National Basketball League—now the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers—from 1946 to 1948. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961.^[1]

Borgmann also played as a middle infielder in the baseball minor leagues from 1928 to 1942, managed in the minors from until 1950, and scouted until 1974.^[2] He died in Hawthorne, New Jersey.

Borgmann was featured in the book Basketball History in Syracuse, Hoops Roots by Mark Allen Baker, published by The History Press in 2010.

References

↑ Bernhard "Bennie" Borgmann, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Accessed November 27, 2007. Archived October 12, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
↑ McKenna, Brian. Early exits: the premature endings of baseball careers, 2007, p. 141.

External links

Basketball Hall of Fame profile

Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1961

Players	Bennie Borgmann Forrest DeBernardi Bob Kurland Andy Phillip John Roosma Christian Steinmetz Ed Wachter

Coaches	George Keogan Lenny Sachs

Contributors	John O'Brien Arthur Schabinger Arthur Trester

Referees	George Hoyt Ernest C. Quigley David Tobey David Walsh

Teams	Buffalo Germans

Philadelphia 76ers head coaches

Bennie Borgmann (1946–1948)
Al Cervi (1948–1956)
Paul Seymour (1956–1960)
Alex Hannum (1960–1963)
Dolph Schayes (1963–1966)
Alex Hannum (1966–1968)
Jack Ramsay (1968–1972)
Roy Rubin (1972–1973)
Kevin Loughery # (1973)
Gene Shue (1973–1977)
Billy Cunningham (1977–1985)
Matt Guokas (1985–1988)
Jim Lynam (1988–1992)
Doug Moe (1992–1993)
Fred Carter (1993–1994)
John Lucas II (1994–1996)
Johnny Davis (1996–1997)
Larry Brown (1997–2003)
Randy Ayers (2003–2004)
Chris Ford # (2004)
Jim O'Brien (2004–2005)
Maurice Cheeks (2005–2008)
Tony DiLeo # (2008–2009)
Eddie Jordan (2009–2010)
Doug Collins (2010–2013)
Brett Brown (2013– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Springfield, Massachusetts

Members

Coaches (98)

Alexeeva Allen Anderson Auerbach Auriemma Barmore Barry Blood Boeheim Brown Calhoun Calipari Cann Carlson Carnesecca Carnevale Carril Case Chancellor Chaney Conradt Crum Daly Dean Díaz-Miguel Diddle Drake Ferrándiz Gaines Gamba Gardner Gaze Gill Gomelsky Gunter Hannum Harshman Haskins Hatchell Heinsohn Hickey Hobson Holzman Hurley Iba Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Leonard Lewis Litwack Loeffler Lonborg Magee McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire Meanwell Meyer Miller Moore Nelson Nikolić Novosel Olson Pitino Ramsay Richardson Riley Rubini Rupp Rush Sachs Sharman Shelton Sloan Smith Stringer Summitt Tarkanian Taylor Teague Thompson VanDerveer Wade Watts Wilkens G. Williams R. Williams Wooden Woolpert Wootten Yow

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as players

Contributors (66)

Players (168)

Guards	Archibald Beckman Belov Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Brennan Cervi Cooper-Dyke Cousy Dampier Davies Drexler Dumars Edwards Frazier Friedman Gervin Goodrich Greer Guerin Hanson Haynes Holman Hyatt Isaacs Jeannette D. Johnson E. Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Lieberman Maravich Marcari Marčiulionis Martin McDermott McGuire Meyers R. Miller Monroe Murphy Page Payton Petrović Phillip Richmond Robertson Rodgers Roosma Russell Schommer Sedran Sharman Staley Steinmetz Stockton Thomas Thompson Vandivier Wanzer West White Wilkens Woodard Wooden

Forwards	Arizin Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bradley R. Brown Cunningham Curry Dalipagić Dantley DeBusschere Dehnert Endacott English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Haywood Heinsohn Howell G. Johnson King Lucas Luisetti K. Malone McClain B. McCracken J. McCracken McHale Mikkelsen C. Miller Mullin Pettit Pippen Pollard Ramsey Rodman Schayes E. Schmidt O. Schmidt Stokes Thompson Twyman Walker White Wilkes Wilkins Worthy Yardley

Centers	Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Bellamy Chamberlain Ćosić Cowens Crawford Daniels DeBernardi Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gilmore Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel W. Johnson Johnston Krause Kurland Lanier Leslie Lovellette Lapchick Macauley M. Malone McAdoo Meneghin Mikan Mourning Murphy Mutombo Olajuwon Parish Pereira Reed Risen Robinson Russell Sabonis Sampson Semjonova Thurmond Unseld Wachter Walton

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches

Referees (15)

Bavetta Enright Hepbron Hoyt Kennedy Leith Mihalik Nichols Nucatola Quigley Rudolph Shirley Strom Tobey Walsh

Teams (10)

1960 United States Olympic Team 1992 United States Olympic Team All American Red Heads Buffalo Germans The First Team Harlem Globetrotters Immaculata College New York Renaissance Original Celtics Texas Western

Awards

Official website

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