Joe Fulks scored eight consecutive points in the fourth quarter to help the Warriors pull away from the Providence Steamrollers and win, 84-72, at Convention Hall. Fulks finished with a game-high 35 points.

< Dec 30, 1946 Back to Calendar Jan 4, 1947 >

The Steamrollers scored the first seven points in overtime and went on to beat the Warriors, 78-74, in Providence. Joe Fulks led all scorers with 31 points.

< Jan 2, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 8, 1947 >

The Ironmen ended their four-game losing streak by beating the Warriors, 67-63, in a rough-hewn affair in Pittsburgh. Joe Fulks led the Warriors with 19 points.

< Jan 4, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 9, 1947 >

The Warriors cruised to a 74-55 win over the Toronto Huskies at Convention Hall. Joe Fulks set a league record with 13 made free throws on the way to a 35 point night. Guard George Senesky left the game in the first half with an injured ankle.

< Jan 8, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 11, 1947 >

Joe Fulks scored a game-high 20 points, but missed two key free throws late in the Warriors’ 58-56 loss to the Falcons in Detroit. The game was marked by a fourth quarter brawl between Angelo Musi and the Falcons’ George Pearcy that cleared both benches before order could be restored.

< Jan 9, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 12, 1947 >

Before a Chicago Stadium crowd of better than 10,000, the Stags beat the Warriors, 75-72. Two Stags players fouled out while guarding Joe Fulks, who got a game-high 32 points, including a league record 14 made free throws.

< Jan 11, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 14, 1947 >

The Warriors trounced the Huskies in Toronto, setting a new team mark for scoring in their 104-74 win. Joe Fulks bettered his own league scoring record with 41 points.

< Jan 12, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 15, 1947 >

The team traded forward John Murphy and cash to the New York Knicks for guard Ralph Kaplowitz.

< Jan 14, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 16, 1947 >

The Warriors came back from a 16-point deficit in the second half to make it close, but fell to the Chicago Stags, 84-74, at Convention Hall. Joe Fulks led everyone with 36 points. The crowd of 8,397 set a new record for pro basketball attendance in Philadelphia

Forward Howie Dallmar left the game in the first quarter with an ankle injury after he landed on a teammate’s foot while going after a rebound. The team feared he had suffered a fracture, but wouldn’t know for sure until further examination.

< Jan 15, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 21, 1947 >

The Warriors dominated early and often in a 59-43 win over the Boston Celtics at the Philadelphia Arena. Joe Fulks led all scorers with 22 points. Howie Dallmar returned to action after suffering an ankle injury against Chicago on the 16th.

< Jan 16, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 22, 1947 >

Bob Feerick’s buzzer-beater gave the Capitols a 57-55 win over the Warriors in Washington. The Caps opened the game on a 23-1 run, but the Warriors clawed back to take the lead in the third quarter and held it into the fourth to make it a game. Washington held the ball for over a minute at the end of the game before Feerick’s winning shot. Warriors head coach Eddie Gottlieb argued that the shot came after the final whistle but his protests fell on deaf ears.Joe Fulks scored a game-high 20 points.

< Jan 21, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 23, 1947 >

Playing their third game in as many nights, the Warriors took a raucous affair from the Cleveland Rebels in overtime, 83-78, at the Philadelphia Arena. The Rebels came back from an 18-point deficit in the fourth to take the lead and only a clutch free throw by Howie Dallmar in the last seconds of regulation kept the Warriors in it.

In the third quarter, Cleveland’s Ed Sadowski fouled Joe Fulks hard, with both men going to the floor. Sadowski threw a wild punch at Fulks and was ejected by referee John Nucatola, but it took a police escort to get Sadowski, who was hurling verbal abuse at Nucatola, to leave the court. Fulks led everyone with 28 points.

George Senesky left the game in the fourth quarter with a severe gash to the face suffered during what was described as a “melee under the basket”.

< Jan 22, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 25, 1947 >

The Warriors spoiled the Falcons head coaching debut of Phil Sacks with a 61-55 win in Detroit. Sacks had taken over for Glen Curtis, who stepped down for health reasons. Ralph Kaplowitz went on an eight-point tear for the Warriors to seal it late. Joe Fulks led all scorers with 23 points.

< Jan 23, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 26, 1947 >

The Stags defense held Joe Fulks to just three field goal attempts in the fourth quarter as they beat the Warriors, 64-58, in Chicago. Fulks led all players anyway with 19 points.

The team waived forward Fred Sheffield.

< Jan 25, 1947 Back to Calendar Jan 31, 1947 >

The New York Knicks focused all their efforts on stopping Joe Fulks and held him scoreless throughout most of the first half, but succumbed to the Warriors anyway, 65-58, at the Philadelphia Arena. George Senesky led the rest of the Warriors in taking advantage of the Knicks’ lack of attention to build a 26-13 lead in the first quarter that they never relinquished. Fulks still got 18 points to lead everyone.

< Jan 26, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 1, 1947 >

The Warriors closed on a 16-4 run to beat the Knicks, 71-63, in New York. Joe Fulks led everybody with 31 points.

< Jan 31, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 3, 1947 >

In a tight game throughout, the Warriors bested the Celtics, 61-55, in Boston. Howie Dallmar tallied a game-high 22 points, marking the first time since December 17 that Joe Fulks wasn’t the Warriors’ leading scorer.

< Feb 1, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 4, 1947 >

The Warriors built up a 12-point lead in the third quarter then held off the Providence Steamrollers the rest of the way to win, 75-68, at the Philadelphia Arena. Joe Fulks led the Warriors with 19 points.

< Feb 3, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 6, 1947 >

The Warriors took charge in the second quarter with a 10-0 run and beat the Toronto Huskies, 79-61, at the Philadelphia Arena. Joe Fulks scored 37, just four points shy of his league mark.

< Feb 4, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 8, 1947 >

The Steamrollers ended the Warriors’ five-game winning streak, winning 67-58 in Providence. Howie Dallmar led the Warriors with 19 points.

< Feb 6, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 11, 1947 >

Before a Philadelphia Arena record crowd of 8,251, the Warriors beat the Bombers, 75-59

Joe Fulks had a game-high 25 points

Per the official league statistics released today, Fulks led the league in scoring at 24.0 points per game clip

Detroit’s Stan Miasek was second at 14.1

< Feb 8, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 13, 1947 >

The Warriors beat the Cleveland Rebels, 61-48, at the Philadelphia Arena

Joe Fulks scored a game-high 19 points which put him over the 1,000 point mark for the season (1,004)

< Feb 11, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 15, 1947 >

Five Capitols players scored in double figures as they beat the Warriors, 70-60, in Washington

Joe Fulks led all players with 18 points

The league announced the swapping of schedule dates at the Philadelphia Arena: The St Louis game on the 26th was moved to March 13 and the Celtics game on March 13 was moved up to February 26

< Feb 13, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 16, 1947 >

The Rebels came back from a three-point halftime deficit to beat the Warriors in Cleveland, 75-71

Joe Fulks scored a game-high 23 points

< Feb 15, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 18, 1947 >

According to the official league statistics issued today, Joe Fulks led the league in scoring with 23.8 points per game

Dino Martin of Providence was in second at 14.9

< Feb 16, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 20, 1947 >

The Warriors beat the Pittsburgh Ironmen, 78-66, at the Philadelphia Arena

Joe Fulks led everyone with 34 points despite fouling out in the fourth quarter

< Feb 18, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 23, 1947 >

The Bombers came back from a 12-point halftime deficit to beat the Warriors, 71-66, in St Louis

Angelo Musi scored a game-high 22 points

< Feb 20, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 24, 1947 >

Ralph Kaplowitz scored in transition with under five minutes to play to give the Warriors a lead they would grimly hold onto until the end in a 69-67 win over the Ironmen in Pittsburgh

Joe Fulks led all players with 22 points

< Feb 23, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 26, 1947 >

The Warriors went on an 11-2 run in the fourth quarter to beat the St Louis Bombers, 75-65, at the Philadelphia Arena

Tempers boiled over near the end when Angelo Musi mixed it up with the Bombers’ Johnny Logan and both players were ejected

Joe Fulks led everybody with 25 points

< Feb 24, 1947 Back to Calendar Feb 28, 1947 >

The Huskies outscored the Warriors in the fourth quarter, 21-3, to come away with a 77-69 win in Toronto

The Warriors led by as much as 20 and were still ahead by 10 at the end of the third before the Huskies went on their tear

Joe Fulks scored all his game-high 23 points in the first half

< Feb 26, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 2, 1947 >

The Rebels’ Ed Sadowski scored the final three points in a 72-69 win over the Warriors in Cleveland

Joe Fulks led everyone with 21 points despite being held without a field goal for a 36-minute stretch

After the game, Philadelphia head coach Eddie Gottlieb lodged a protest with the league over a perceived officiating slight on a long inbounds pass to Bob Faught that resulted in a bucket.

Gottlieb claimed that, with time out, Riebe had taken the ball out of bounds himself and threw it in to Faught without getting a referee to handle it in between

< Feb 28, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 3, 1947 >

The Warriors beat the Toronto Huskies, 76-66, at the Philadelphia Arena to get their tenth home win in a row

Joe Fulks led all players with 25 points

< Mar 2, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 6, 1947 >

The Warriors closed the gap from a nine-point halftime deficit, but not all the way in a 61-59 loss to the New York Knicks at the Philadelphia Arena

The loss broke the Warriors' ten-game home winning streak

Joe Fulks scored a game-high 20 points

< Mar 3, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 11, 1947 >

Washington’s Bob Feerick scored six straight points late to clinch the Capitols’ 80-77 win over the Warriors in Philadelphia

The crowd of 8,345 was a new Arena record for attendance

Art Hillhouse led the Warriors with 20 points

< Mar 6, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 13, 1947 >

The Warriors dominated throughout in an 81-57 win over the Boston Celtics at the Philadelphia Arena

Joe Fulks led all scorers with 25 points

< Mar 11, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 15, 1947 >

In what was described as a “rough game”, the Stags beat the Warriors, 70-67, in Chicago

Joe Fulks and Howie Dallmar shared game-high honors with 19 points each

< Mar 13, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 16, 1947 >

The Warriors overcame a nine-point deficit in the third quarter to beat the Falcons, 67-61, in Detroit

Playing what was described as an “elaborate shifting defense”, the Falcons held Joe Fulks to just 4-of-21 from the field, but he still managed to lead all players with 16 points

< Mar 15, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 19, 1947 >

Providence’s loss to the Washington Capitols clinched a playoff spot for the Warriors with four games left to play in the regular season

< Mar 16, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 20, 1947 >

Joe Fulks sank a pair of free throws in the final minute to give the Warriors a 77-75 win over the Detroit Falcons at the Philadelphia Arena

Fulks’ 15 points led Warriors scorers

< Mar 19, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 22, 1947 >

Joe Fulks went 10-for-10 from the line and scored a game-high 24 points in the Warriors’ 103-82 win over the Steamrollers in Providence

< Mar 20, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 27, 1947 >

The Warriors earned their first win in six attempts against the Chicago Stags, beating them 80-73 at the Philadelphia Arena

Joe Fulks led the way with a game-high 34 points

The crowd of 8,406 set a new Arena attendance record

Art Hillhouse took an elbow to his forehead above the left eye that opened a cut that required five stitches to close

He returned to the game following medical attention

< Mar 22, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 30, 1947 >

The Warriors finished the regular season with a 76-72 win over the Knicks in New York

The Warriors held a 21-point lead late in the third quarter and barely held on at the finish

Art Hillhouse led everyone with 19 points

The win gave the Warriors a 35-25 record, good for second place in the Eastern Division

They would meet the loser of tomorrow night’s game between Chicago and St Louis in the opening round of the playoffs

Guard George Senesky left the game with a concussion after being knocked unconscious in a collision with New York’s Bill van Breda Kolff

< Mar 27, 1947 Back to Calendar Mar 31, 1947 >

Chicago beat St Louis, 73-66, to send the Bombers to Philadelphia where they would open the first round of the BAA playoffs against the Warriors on April 2

Joe Fulks won the league scoring crown with a 23.1 points per game average

George Senesky was cleared to resume playing after suffering a concussion in last night’s game against the Knicks

< Mar 30, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 2, 1947 >

The Warriors took the first game of the opening round of the BAA playoffs by beating the St Louis Bombers, 73-68, at the Philadelphia Arena

Angelo Musi led all scorers with 19 points

< Mar 31, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 5, 1947 >

The Bombers beat the Warriors, 73-51, in St Louis, in game two of their best-of-three playoff series

The win tied the series at a game apiece

Angelo Musi led the Warriors with 12 points

Joe Fulks sat out nearly half the game with four fouls and scored just 10 points

< Apr 2, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 6, 1947 >

The Warriors closed out their playoff series against the Bombers with a 75-59 game three win in St Louis

The Warriors took the series, 2-1

Joe Fulks led all players with 24 points

The Warriors wook take on the winner of the Rebels/Knicks game on the 9th in the second round

< Apr 5, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 9, 1947 >

The Knicks eliminated the Cleveland Rebels in their three-game series, 93-71, in New York to set up a second-round playoff matchup with the Warriors

The series would start on the 12th in Philadelphia

< Apr 6, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 12, 1947 >

The Warriors took the opener of their three-game, second-round series with the New York Knicks, 82-70, at the Philadelphia Arena

The Warriors followed a Knicks 12-2 run in the third quarter with an 8-0 run of their own to take the lead for good

Joe Fulks led all scorers with 24 points

The Warriors sank 24 of 26 shots from the line as a team

< Apr 9, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 14, 1947 >

The Warriors swept the Knicks, 2-0, in their second-round playoff series with a 72-53 win in New York

Joe Fulks topped all scorers with 16 points

The Stags eliminated the Capitols in their seven-game series between division champions to set up a Stags/Warriors final that would open on the 16th in Philadelphia

< Apr 12, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 16, 1947 >

The Warriors took game one of their best-of-seven finals series against the Chicago Stags, 84-71, at the Philadelphia Arena

Joe Fulks scored 21 of his game-high 37 points in the fourth quarter

< Apr 14, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 17, 1947 >

The Warriors took a 2-0 lead over the Chicago Stags in their best-of-seven finals series with an 85-74 win at the Philadelphia Arena

Howie Dallmar led the Warriors with 18 points

< Apr 16, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 19, 1947 >

The Warriors took a 3-0 lead in the BAA finals best-of-seven series with a 75-72 win over the Stags in Chicago

The Warriors led by as many as 13 points in the fourth quarter then held off a Chicago rally to get the win

Joe Fulks led all players with 26 points

< Apr 17, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 20, 1947 >

The Stags stayed alive in the BAA finals by beating the Warriors, 74-73, in game four in Chicago

The Warriors led the series 3-1

The Warriors had a chance to win at the end, but George Senesky was still dribbling upcourt when time ran out

Senesky led the Warriors with 24 points

Joe Fulks sat out most of the third quarter with four fouls and scored 21

< Apr 19, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 22, 1947 >

The Warriors took the first-ever BAA championship with an 83-80 game five win over the Chicago Stags at the Philadelphia Arena

Howie Dallmar sank a 15-footer with less than a minute to go to make the score 82-80 then Ralph Kaplowitz made a free throw to seal it

Joe Fulks led all players with 34 points

The Warriors earned $2,150 per player in playoff prize money

< Apr 20, 1947 Back to Calendar Apr 24, 1947 >

The Warriors celebrated their BAA championship with a dinner at Raymond’s Restaurant

Head coach Eddie Gottlieb said “I’ve never coached a team which had a finer spirit”

The league’s beat writers unanimously named Joe Fulks to the league’s first-team All-Star squad and gave Howie Dallmar honorable mention

< Apr 22, 1947 Back to Calendar May 27, 1947 >

The team announced the signing of 6’3” South Philadelphia High School forward Stan Brown

According to the Inquirer, Brown, just shy of his 18th birthday, was the youngest play signed by a BAA team to date

< Apr 24, 1947 Back to Calendar June 3, 1947 >

• The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League worked out a cooperation agreement that included a respect for each others' player contracts and a common draft that occurred sometime within a few days of the meeting. The leagues agreed not to publicize the names of the players drafted until and when those players signed contracts with their respective teams.

< Apr 24, 1947 Back to Calendar Jun 3, 1947 >