Philadelphia Lumberjacks
EPBL 1947-1948

Philadelphia has always supported its basketball teams, both on the college and professional levels. In the late 1940's, there were already two professional teams in the City of Brotherly Love; the long-established Philadelphia SPHAs of the ABL, and the new Philadelphia Warriors of the BAA. A third team, the Philadelphia Lumberjacks, were created for the Eastern Professional Basketball League, but the team was essentially a distant third among Philly's pro basketball fans. Games were initially held at Philadelphia's Metropolitan Opera House on 858 N. Broad Street, and were later relocated to "Mason Hall," a Masonic temple at the corners of 7th and Morris Streets. While other cities gave their Eastern League teams full-page coverage of each contest, the Philadelphia Inquirer barely gave the Lumberjacks enough coverage to denote a box score and the fact that a game was even played. By late January, even with such top scorers as former New York Renaissance star Zack Clayton, the Lumberjacks' anemic attendance and poor coverage necessitated a drastic change. After a failed attempt to relocate the team's home games to Camden, N.J., the Lumberjacks finished their only season as a traveling road team.

             W   L   PCT  GB   Result
1947-1948    8  20  .400  11   did not make playoffs

1947-1948 did not make playoffs