Philadelphia High School Basketball
Individual Scoring for Public League Champions, 1940-2015
This page includes individual point totals -- PL regular season and playoffs --
for championship teams
from 1940 through 2015 (76 seasons). Until the mid-1960s, PL schools had two
senior classes. Some
of the players listed as "Others" were starters or key subs before they
graduated at mid-year.
GS = Games Scored.
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| GS | Pts | Avg. | Pre/1st | 16 | Qtr | Semi | Final | |
| 1940 | ||||||||
| SOUTHERN | Ovb | |||||||
| Coach - Dr. Richard Ker | ||||||||
| Record - 9-1, 17-1 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Herman "Red" Klotz | 8 | 93 | 11.6 | 14 | ||||
| Fran Petrella | 9 | 35 | 3.9 | 2 | ||||
| Irv Reichman | 8 | 34 | 4.3 | 12 | ||||
| Warren "Reds" Jordan | 7 | 20 | 2.9 | |||||
| Len Weiner | 3 | 14 | 4.7 | 5 | ||||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Gene Dongiven | 7 | 34 | 4.9 | |||||
| Tom Fetters | 5 | 12 | 2.4 | |||||
| Frank Lippo | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Jack Fox | 6 | 32 | 5.3 | |||||
| Bill Nugent | 8 | 28 | 3.5 | |||||
| 10 | 302 | 30.2 | 33 | |||||
| 1941 | ||||||||
| WEST | NE | Sou | ||||||
| Coach - Ben Stackowski | ||||||||
| Record - 10-1, 16-2 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Nelson Bobb | 10 | 74 | 7.4 | 6 | 10 | |||
| Charles "Sonny" Leonard | 11 | 67 | 6.1 | 7 | ||||
| Oscar Grossman | 11 | 65 | 5.9 | 4 | 12 | |||
| Stan Novak | 11 | 51 | 4.6 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Wally Kollar | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | 1 | 8 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Ed Taylor | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | |||||
| Bill Duke | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Gene Resnick | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Al Cornfeld | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | |||||
| Larry Rosen | 3 | 7 | 2.3 | |||||
| Maurice Dabney | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Alfred Rosenfeld | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Sid Radeloff | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Melvin Hausman | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| 11 | 297 | 27.0 | 22 | 35 | ||||
| 1942 | ||||||||
| WEST | Sou | Bart | ||||||
| Coach - Ben Stackowski | ||||||||
| Record - 10-1, 17-2 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Nelson Bobb | 10 | 109 | 10.9 | 5 | 12 | |||
| Oscar Grossman | 11 | 66 | 6.0 | 4 | 10 | |||
| Gene Resnick | 8 | 51 | 6.4 | 10 | 4 | |||
| Charles "Sonny" Leonard | 6 | 33 | 5.5 | 7 | 10 | |||
| Francis "Bud Williams | 6 | 21 | 3.5 | |||||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Stu Tomkins | 5 | 30 | 6.0 | |||||
| Ed Goldberg | 4 | 24 | 6.0 | |||||
| Ed Taylor | 7 | 22 | 3.1 | |||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Patterson | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | |||||
| Arnold Smerilson | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | |||||
| Charlie Lamons | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | |||||
| Sam Mustin | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | |||||
| Evans | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| 11 | 376 | 34.2 | 26 | 38 | ||||
| 1943 | ||||||||
| WEST | Ovb | Bart | ||||||
| Coach - Ben Stackowski | ||||||||
| Record - 10-1, 16-7 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Stu Tomkins | 11 | 84 | 7.6 | 13 | 9 | |||
| Charlie Lamons | 11 | 82 | 7.5 | 14 | 7 | |||
| Francis "Bud Williams | 11 | 51 | 4.6 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Ed Goldberg | 8 | 41 | 5.1 | 6 | ||||
| John Davidian | 9 | 38 | 4.2 | 8 | ||||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Leroy Whatley | 5 | 13 | 2.6 | 4 | 2 | |||
| Dave Friedman | 6 | 12 | 2.0 | |||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Sam Mustin | 4 | 11 | 2.8 | |||||
| Patton | 5 | 11 | 2.2 | |||||
| Solomon | 3 | 8 | 2.7 | |||||
| Orr | 3 | 7 | 2.3 | |||||
| Ben Coren | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | |||||
| Dick Rosen | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | |||||
| Henry Hood | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | |||||
| 11 | 370 | 33.6 | 41 | 31 | ||||
| 1944 | ||||||||
| BARTRAM | NE | Sou | ||||||
| Coach - Menchy Goldblatt | ||||||||
| Record - 11-0, 20-1 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Norm Tener | 11 | 105 | 9.5 | 5 | 9 | |||
| Milt Cohen | 11 | 99 | 9.0 | 9 | 11 | |||
| Bill Nelson | 11 | 75 | 6.8 | 6 | 13 | |||
| Steve Rullo | 11 | 74 | 6.7 | 10 | 9 | |||
| Bob "Ace" McCann | 11 | 69 | 6.3 | 6 | 4 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Al Trubin | 9 | 52 | 5.8 | |||||
| Bill Beatty | 8 | 25 | 3.1 | 4 | ||||
| Others | ||||||||
| John Savchak | 4 | 22 | 5.5 | |||||
| Stan Wojtusik | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| 11 | 523 | 47.5 | 36 | 50 | ||||
| 1945 | ||||||||
| SOUTHERN | Bart | West | ||||||
| Coach - Dave Dabrow | ||||||||
| Record - 10-1, 17-3 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Charles "Hotsy" Bellak | 11 | 160 | 14.5 | 12 | 9 | |||
| Tom Sabol | 11 | 73 | 6.6 | 15 | 10 | |||
| Bill Myles | 11 | 54 | 4.9 | 2 | 10 | |||
| *Stan Goldman | 10 | 87 | 8.7 | |||||
| Stan "Loady" Brown | 11 | 101 | 9.2 | 13 | 10 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Arnold Levin | 5 | 9 | 1.8 | 4 | ||||
| Manny Bosio | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | ||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Sam Smith | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | |||||
| Pat Altadonna | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| 11 | 488 | 44.4 | 42 | 45 | ||||
| *Joined Army at end of regular | ||||||||
| season; replaced by Levin | ||||||||
| 1946 | ||||||||
| SOUTHERN | Bart | NE | ||||||
| Coach - Dave Dabrow | ||||||||
| Record - 12-2, 19-6 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Stan "Loady" Brown | 14 | 337 | 24.1 | 21 | 21 | |||
| Harris Pitkoff | 14 | 60 | 4.3 | |||||
| Irv Berschler | 11 | 50 | 4.5 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Pat Altadonna | 12 | 47 | 3.9 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Jack Silver | 4 | 17 | 4.3 | 10 | 8 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Norm Lerner | 11 | 67 | 6.1 | |||||
| Ed Altieri | 7 | 25 | 3.6 | 2 | ||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Cooper | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | |||||
| George Esher | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | |||||
| Charles Perrone | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Laskin | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | |||||
| 14 | 631 | 45.1 | 36 | 34 | ||||
| 1947 | ||||||||
| BARTRAM | West | Ovb | ||||||
| Coach - Menchy Goldblatt | ||||||||
| Record - 13-1, 21-4 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Ralph Naimoli | 14 | 185 | 13.2 | 9 | 10 | |||
| Gil Shor | 13 | 109 | 8.4 | 7 | 13 | |||
| Lou Lista | 14 | 69 | 4.9 | 6 | 6 | |||
| Frank "Pete" Logue | 14 | 50 | 3.6 | 2 | 7 | |||
| Walt Plechner | 14 | 43 | 3.1 | 16 | 4 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Herman Ingerman | 12 | 107 | 8.9 | 3 | ||||
| Jim Sherlock | 11 | 55 | 5.0 | |||||
| Dave Hansen | 3 | 5 | 1.7 | 2 | ||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Martin Holmes | 6 | 16 | 2.7 | |||||
| Vince Grimaldi | 3 | 8 | 2.7 | |||||
| Mort Tener | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | |||||
| 14 | 653 | 46.6 | 43 | 42 | ||||
| 1948 | ||||||||
| OVERBROOK | NE | Bart | ||||||
| Coach - Warren Weiler | ||||||||
| Record - 13-1, 20-2 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Alan Stein | 14 | 155 | 11.1 | 9 | 6 | |||
| Tony Papaneri | 13 | 117 | 9.0 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Larry Goldsborough | 14 | 105 | 7.5 | 2 | 9 | |||
| Mel Kates | 14 | 90 | 6.4 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Jackie Moore | 6 | 52 | 8.7 | 8 | 12 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Al Kates | 12 | 58 | 4.8 | 4 | 2 | |||
| Marshall "Lefty" Berwick | 8 | 31 | 3.9 | 6 | 2 | |||
| Lou Jaffe | 7 | 25 | 3.6 | 2 | ||||
| Gil Wagenfeld | 3 | 11 | 3.7 | |||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Stan Gordon | 7 | 88 | 12.6 | |||||
| Bill Levin | 3 | 7 | 2.3 | |||||
| Allen Soffer | 4 | 6 | 1.5 | |||||
| Murray Teller | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | |||||
| Yale Zaid | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Dick Dunham | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Marvin Leibowitz | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| 14 | 753 | 53.8 | 36 | 37 | ||||
| 1949 | ||||||||
| OVERBROOK | Bart | Fkd | ||||||
| Coach - Sam Cozen | ||||||||
| Record - 13-1, 20-2 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Jackie Moore | 14 | 183 | 13.1 | 21 | 25 | |||
| Dick Dunham | 14 | 110 | 7.9 | 4 | 11 | |||
| Guido "Dippy" Carosi | 14 | 93 | 6.6 | 10 | ||||
| Murray Teller | 14 | 81 | 5.8 | 9 | 6 | |||
| Bill Levin | 12 | 56 | 4.7 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Murray Maxwell | 4 | 22 | 5.5 | 4 | ||||
| Fred Douglas | 6 | 21 | 3.5 | |||||
| Wycliff Martin | 5 | 20 | 4.0 | 3 | ||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Marshall "Lefty" Berwick | 7 | 42 | 6.0 | |||||
| Allen Soffer | 5 | 18 | 3.6 | 2 | ||||
| Yale Zaid | 4 | 13 | 3.3 | 2 | ||||
| Bob Schwab | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 1 | ||||
| Gary Bromberg | 2 | 7 | 3.5 | 1 | ||||
| 14 | 673 | 48.1 | 61 | 47 | ||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| OVERBROOK | West | Cent | ||||||
| Coach - Sam Cozen | ||||||||
| Record - 13-1, 18-4 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Jackie Moore | 14 | 206 | 14.7 | 21 | 10 | |||
| Wycliff Martin | 14 | 120 | 8.6 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Gene Avella | 14 | 97 | 6.9 | 10 | 2 | |||
| Bob Alper | 14 | 78 | 5.6 | 10 | 10 | |||
| Jim Poff | 13 | 65 | 5.0 | 4 | 9 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Fred Douglas | 8 | 53 | 6.6 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Roland "Lefty" Sommers | 6 | 13 | 2.2 | 4 | 7 | |||
| Dan Promislo | 5 | 9 | 1.8 | |||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Dick Dunham | 8 | 86 | 10.8 | |||||
| Fishman | 7 | 16 | 2.3 | |||||
| Kauffman | 4 | 12 | 3.0 | |||||
| Allan Meltzer | 3 | 7 | 2.3 | |||||
| Tatum | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | |||||
| Schwab | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | |||||
| 14 | 769 | 54.9 | 55 | 45 | ||||
| 1951 | ||||||||
| WEST | NE | Fkn | ||||||
| Coach - Doug Connelly | ||||||||
| Record - 13-2, 17-4 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| William Johnson | 15 | 252 | 16.8 | 5 | 15 | |||
| Earl Jackson | 15 | 132 | 8.8 | 19 | 11 | |||
| George Tomosky | 14 | 60 | 4.3 | 12 | 5 | |||
| Bill Showell | 15 | 166 | 11.1 | 8 | 8 | |||
| Jim Miller | 14 | 81 | 5.8 | 2 | ||||
| Key Sub | ||||||||
| Ron Mitz | 10 | 26 | 2.6 | 2 | ||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Mason | 6 | 17 | 2.8 | |||||
| Berkoff | 4 | 13 | 3.3 | |||||
| Smith | 4 | 18 | 4.5 | |||||
| Wachs | 3 | 15 | 5.0 | |||||
| Crowder | 3 | 6 | 2.0 | |||||
| Kaplan | 4 | 8 | 2.0 | |||||
| Fitch | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| 15 | 796 | 53.1 | 46 | 41 | ||||
| 1952 | ||||||||
| FRANKLIN | West | NE | Linc | |||||
| Coach - Bill Nelson | ||||||||
| Record - 6-3, 11-8 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Claude Gross | 9 | 154 | 17.1 | 23 | 19 | 13 | ||
| Dick Chaney | 9 | 131 | 14.6 | 12 | 8 | 10 | ||
| Bill Matthews | 7 | 85 | 12.1 | 9 | 10 | 13 | ||
| Pete Henderson | 9 | 62 | 6.9 | 10 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Devonne Muchison | 6 | 32 | 5.3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | ||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Don Hill | 4 | 13 | 3.3 | 2 | ||||
| Bill McCoy | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | |||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Bill Barnes | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | |||||
| Miller | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | |||||
| Grier | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Pavlicho | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| 9 | 491 | 54.6 | 64 | 48 | 49 | |||
| 1953 | ||||||||
| OVERBROOK | Fkn | Linc | NE | |||||
| Coach - Sam Cozen | ||||||||
| Record - 11-1, 21-2 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Wilt Chamberlain | 12 | 389 | 32.4 | 24 | 35 | 34 | ||
| Lou Sadler | 10 | 56 | 5.6 | 6 | 12 | 13 | ||
| Doug Leaman | 11 | 55 | 5.0 | |||||
| Marv Cravetz | 11 | 48 | 4.4 | 8 | 8 | 5 | ||
| Stan Guralnick | 9 | 43 | 4.8 | 20 | 13 | 13 | ||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Ira Davis | 11 | 58 | 5.3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Jim Sadler | 9 | 48 | 5.3 | 5 | ||||
| Charlie Brahin | 10 | 34 | 3.4 | 7 | 3 | |||
| Others | ||||||||
| Dave Feldman | 7 | 97 | 13.9 | |||||
| Finch | 8 | 37 | 4.6 | 2 | ||||
| Williams | 5 | 23 | 4.6 | |||||
| Gray | 6 | 19 | 3.2 | |||||
| Heller | 6 | 17 | 2.8 | |||||
| 12 | 924 | 77.0 | 73 | 72 | 71 | |||
| 1954 | ||||||||
| OVERBROOK | West | NE | ||||||
| Coach - Cecil Mosenson | ||||||||
| Record - 12-0, 20-0 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Wilt Chamberlain | 12 | 453 | 37.8 | 41 | 40 | |||
| Ira Davis | 12 | 107 | 8.9 | 7 | 5 | |||
| Mel Brodsky | 11 | 91 | 8.3 | 9 | 6 | |||
| Jim Sadler | 10 | 70 | 7.0 | 6 | 4 | |||
| Doug Leaman | 11 | 64 | 5.8 | 5 | 1 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Dave Henryhand | 9 | 32 | 3.6 | 2 | ||||
| Al Weinberg | 8 | 18 | 2.3 | |||||
| Marty Hughes | 5 | 10 | 2.0 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Howard Johnson | 3 | 10 | 3.3 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Others | ||||||||
| Lou Sadler | 6 | 49 | 8.2 | |||||
| Boykin | 5 | 16 | 3.2 | |||||
| Vince Miller | 3 | 12 | 4.0 | |||||
| Marv Cravetz | 3 | 11 | 3.7 | |||||
| Tom Fitzhugh | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | |||||
| Neiman | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | |||||
| 12 | 952 | 79.3 | 74 | 60 | ||||
| 1955 | ||||||||
| OVERBROOK | Bok | West | ||||||
| Coach - Cecil Mosenson | ||||||||
| Record - 12-0, 18-1 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Wilt Chamberlain | 12 | 566 | 47.2 | 48 | 33 | |||
| Vince Miller | 12 | 133 | 11.1 | 7 | 17 | |||
| Marty Hughes | 11 | 103 | 9.4 | 11 | 25 | |||
| Howard Johnson | 11 | 55 | 5.0 | 5 | ||||
| Dave Shapiro | 6 | 48 | 8.0 | 6 | 2 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Tom Fitzhugh | 6 | 24 | 4.0 | 2 | ||||
| Ben Jones | 4 | 12 | 3.0 | |||||
| Simeon Jones | 2 | |||||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Jim Sadler | 6 | 75 | 12.5 | |||||
| Doug Leaman | 7 | 43 | 6.1 | |||||
| Alan Weinberg | 5 | 30 | 6.0 | |||||
| Neil Glickman | 8 | 26 | 3.3 | |||||
| Irv Jaffe | 7 | 15 | 2.1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Gene Taylor | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | |||||
| 12 | 1136 | 94.7 | 83 | 78 | ||||
| 1956 | ||||||||
| WEST | Gtz | NE | ||||||
| Coach - Doug Connelly | ||||||||
| Record - 12-0, 17-1 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Ray "Chink" Scott | 12 | 380 | 31.7 | 26 | 22 | |||
| Carl Lacy | 12 | 101 | 8.4 | 4 | 13 | |||
| Hubie White | 10 | 86 | 8.6 | 13 | 20 | |||
| Fred Brockman | 12 | 77 | 6.4 | 7 | 13 | |||
| Saul Schwait | 12 | 65 | 5.4 | 4 | 2 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Elliott Berman | 8 | 61 | 7.6 | |||||
| Harry "Sonny" Mowery | 7 | 23 | 3.3 | |||||
| Paul Turner | 4 | 22 | 5.5 | |||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Reese Murray | 7 | 83 | 11.9 | |||||
| Fred McCray | 6 | 24 | 4.0 | |||||
| James Payne | 4 | 12 | 3.0 | |||||
| William "Dickie" King | 3 | 11 | 3.7 | |||||
| Harvey Swerdloff | 4 | 8 | 2.0 | |||||
| 12 | 953 | 79.4 | 54 | 70 | ||||
| 1957 | ||||||||
| OVERBROOK | Fkn | Linc | ||||||
| Coach - Paul Ward | ||||||||
| Record - 11-1, 20-1 | ||||||||
| Starters | ||||||||
| Wayne Hightower | 12 | 248 | 20.7 | 26 | 24 | |||
| Ralph Heyward | 12 | 140 | 11.7 | 6 | 10 | |||
| Bernie Ivens | 12 | 133 | 11.1 | 10 | 9 | |||
| Howie Horenstein | 12 | 104 | 8.7 | 10 | 2 | |||
| Bobby Jones | 11 | 98 | 8.9 | 3 | 21 | |||
| Key Subs | ||||||||
| Art Morganstern | 8 | 23 | 2.9 | 2 | ||||
| Hank Altschuler | 4 | 12 | 3.0 | |||||
| Franklin Smith | 6 | 19 | 3.2 | |||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Mike Jordan | 7 | 20 | 2.9 | |||||
| Calvin Bradley | 3 | 6 | 2.0 | |||||
| Henry Gladstone | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | |||||
| Marvin Rosenbaum | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |||||
| Willard Epps | 4 | 7 | 1.8 | < |