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January 1, 1947
January 2, 1947
News
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.
January 3, 1947
January 4, 1947
News
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.
January 5, 1947
January 6, 1947
January 7, 1947
January 8, 1947
News
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.
January 9, 1947
News
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.
January 10, 1947
January 11, 1947
News
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.
January 12, 1947
News
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.
January 13, 1947
January 14, 1947
News
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.
January 15, 1947
Transactions
The team traded forward John Murphy and cash to the New York Knicks for guard Ralph Kaplowitz.
January 16, 1947
News
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.
January 17, 1947
January 18, 1947
January 19, 1947
January 20, 1947
January 21, 1947
News
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.
January 22, 1947
News
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.
January 23, 1947
News
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”.
January 24, 1947
January 25, 1947
News
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.
January 26, 1947
News
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.
Transactions
January 27, 1947
January 28, 1947
January 29, 1947
January 30, 1947
January 31, 1947
News
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.
February 1, 1947
News
The Warriors closed on a 16-4 run to beat the Knicks, 71-63, in New York. Joe Fulks led everybody with 31 points.
February 2, 1947
February 3, 1947
News
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.