Buddy Jeannette

Buddy Jeannette
Personal information

Born	(1917-09-15)September 15, 1917 New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Died	March 11, 1998(1998-03-11) (aged 80) Nashua, New Hampshire
Nationality	American
Listed height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High school	New Kensington (New Kensington, Pennsylvania)
College	Washington & Jefferson (1934–1938)
Playing career	1938–1950
Position	Guard
Number	26, 6, 14
Career history
As player:
1938–1939	Cleveland White Horses (NBL)
1939–1941	Detroit Eagles (NBL)
1942	Sheboygan Red Skins (NBL)
1943–1946	Fort Wayne Pistons (NBL)
1946–1950	Baltimore Bullets (BAA)
As coach:
1946–1951	Baltimore Bullets (BAA)
1952–1956	Georgetown Hoyas
1964–1965	Baltimore Bullets
1966–1967	Baltimore Bullets
1969–1970	Pittsburgh Pipers (ABA)
Career highlights and awards
BAA champion (1948) All-BAA Second Team (1948)

Basketball Hall of Fame as player
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006

Harry Edward "Buddy" Jeannette (September 15, 1917 – March 11, 1998^[1]) was a professional basketball player and coach.

Jeannette was widely regarded as the premier backcourt player between 1938 and 1948. He was named to the First Team of the National Basketball League (NBL) four times, and won titles with the NBL's Sheboygan Red Skins in 1943 and Fort Wayne Pistons in 1944 and 1945. Jeannette also won a title with the American Basketball League's Baltimore Bullets in 1947.

Most of his playing career came prior to the formation of the modern National Basketball Association (NBA) or its predecessor leagues; however Jeannette did serve three years as a player-coach for the original Baltimore Bullets of the Basketball Association of America (BAA). In the 1948 BAA playoffs, he became the first player-coach to win a professional championship. After his playing career ended in 1950, he coached the original Bullets for one more season. He then became the head coach at Georgetown University for four seasons, leading the team to an appearance in the 1953 National Invitation Tournament.

Jeannette returned to the ranks of professional coaching in the NBA to lead the modern Baltimore Bullets twice, once for a full season and once as an interim coach. He later would coach the American Basketball Association's Pittsburgh Pipers for part of a season.

In 1994, Jeannette was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Jeannette attended Washington and Jefferson College, in Washington, Pennsylvania.^[2]

Head coaching record

Sources^[3]

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Baltimore Bullets (Basketball Association of America) (1947–1951)
1947–48	Baltimore	28-20	Western Division	2nd	Won BAA Final
1948–49	Baltimore	29-31	Eastern Division	3rd	Lost Eastern Division Semifinal
1949–50	Baltimore	25-43	Eastern Division	5th	none
1950–51	Baltimore	24-42	Eastern Division	5th	none
Baltimore:		106–136
Georgetown Hoyas (college independent) (1952–1956)
1952–53	Georgetown	13–7	–	–	NIT First Round
1953–54	Georgetown	11–18	–	–	none
1954–55	Georgetown	12–13	–	–	none
1955–56	Georgetown	13–11	–	–	none
Georgetown:		49–49
Baltimore Bullets (National Basketball Association) (1964–1965)
1964–65	Baltimore	37-43	Western Division	3rd	Lost Western Division Final
Baltimore Bullets (National Basketball Association) (1966–1967)
1966–67	Baltimore	3-13^[4]^{[note 1]}	Western Division	5th	none
Baltimore:		40–56
Pittsburgh Pipers (American Basketball Association) (1969–1970)
1969–70	Pittsburgh	15-30^[5]^{[note 2]}	Eastern Division	5th	none
Pittsburgh:		15–30
Total:		210–271^{[note 3]}
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

Notes

↑ Jeannette was one of three head coaches for Baltimore during the season. Mike Farmer had coached Baltimore to a 1-8 record in its first nine games when Jeannette took over. Jeannette served as interim head coach for the next 16 games. Gene Shue then took over as head coach, posting a 16-40 record to lead Baltimore to a 20-61 finish.
↑ Jeannette was Pittsburgh's second head coach of the season, taking over the team from John Clark after it had gone 14-25 in its first 39 games. Jeannette coached Pittburgh's remaining 45 games, leading the team to a 29-55 finish.
↑ Jeannette's overall record as a head coach of professional teams was 161-222. As a college head coach, he was 49-49 overall.

References

↑ "Hall of Famer Buddy Jeannette, Bullets player-coach, dies at 80 He won pro championship with Baltimore in '48". Baltimore Sun. March 12, 1998. Archived from the original on 2010-11-07.
↑ "Buddy Jeannette". basketball-reference.
↑ basketball-reference.com Coaches: Buddy Jeannette
↑ basketball-reference.com 1966–67 Baltimore Bullets Roster and Stats
↑ basketball-reference.com 1969–70 Pittsburgh Pipers Roster and Stats

External links

Buddy Jeannette at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Baltimore Bullets (1944–54) head coaches

Ben Kramer (1944) Unknown # (1944–1945) Unknown (1945–1946) Buddy Jeannette (1946–1951) Walt Budko # (1951) Chick Reiser (1951) Fred Scolari (1951–1952) Clair Bee (1952–1954) Albert Barthelme (1954) Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball head coaches

Maurice Joyce (1906–1911)
James Colliflower (1911–1914)
John D. O'Reilly (1914–1921)
James Colliflower (1921–1922)
Jock Maloney (1922–1923)
John D. O'Reilly (1923–1927)
Elmer Ripley (1927–1929)
Bill Dudak (1929–1930)
John T. Colrick (1930–1931)
Fred Mesmer (1931–1938)
Elmer Ripley (1938–1943)
No team (1943–1945)
Ken Engles (1945–1946)
Elmer Ripley (1946–1949)
Buddy O'Grady (1949–1952)
Buddy Jeannette (1952–1956)
Tommy Nolan (1956–1960)
Tommy O'Keefe (1960–1966)
Jack Magee (1966–1972)
John Thompson Jr. (1972–1999)
Craig Esherick (1999–2004)
John Thompson III (2004– )

Washington Wizards head coaches

Jim Pollard (1961–1962)
Jack McMahon (1962)
Bobby Leonard (1962–1964)
Buddy Jeannette (1964–1965)
Paul Seymour (1965–1966)
Mike Farmer (1966)
Buddy Jeannette # (1966)
Gene Shue (1966–1973)
K. C. Jones (1973–1976)
Dick Motta (1976–1980)
Gene Shue (1980–1986)
Kevin Loughery (1986–1988)
Wes Unseld (1988–1994)
Jim Lynam (1994–1997)
Bob Staak # (1997)
Bernie Bickerstaff (1997–1999)
Jim Brovelli # (1999)
Gar Heard (1999–2000)
Darrell Walker # (2000)
Leonard Hamilton (2000–2001)
Doug Collins (2001–2003)
Eddie Jordan (2003–2008)
Ed Tapscott (2008–2009)
Flip Saunders (2009–2012)
Randy Wittman (2012–2016)
Scott Brooks (2016–)

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Buddy Jeannette—championships, awards, and honors

Sheboygan Red Skins 1942–43 NBL Champions

Ken Buehler Ed Dancker George Jablonsky Buddy Jeannette Rube Lautenschlager Bill McDonald Robert Regh Eddie Sadowski Warren Schrage Bob Schwartz Ken Suesens Head coach Carl Roth

Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons 1943–44 NBL Champions

Paul Birch Jerry Bush Dale Hamilton Buddy Jeannette Bobby McDermott Jake Pelkington Chick Reiser Carlisle Towery Head coach Bobby McDermott

Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons 1944–45 NBL Champions

Paul Birch Jerry Bush Jim Glass Buddy Jeannette Bobby McDermott Jake Pelkington Chick Reiser Ed Sadowski Charley Shipp Bob Synnott Head coach Bobby McDermott

Baltimore Bullets 1947–48 BAA Champions

20 Red Klotz 21 Dick Schulz 23 Herm Fuetsch 26 Buddy Jeannette 27 Chick Reiser 29 Kleggie Hermsen 31 Carl Meinhold 32 Paul Hoffman 33 Connie Simmons 35 Grady Lewis Head coach Buddy Jeannette

National Basketball League (United States) All-Time Team

Jerry Bush Bob Carpenter Al Cervi Chuck Chuckovits Ed Dancker Bob Davies Leroy Edwards Gene Englund William "Pop" Gates George Glamack Buddy Jeannette Bobby McDermott† George Mikan Mike Novak Don Otten Mel Riebe Arnie Risen Charley Shipp Ben Stephens Mike Todorovich

† Special voting by the media selected Bobby McDermott as the NBL's all-time greatest player

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1994

Players	Carol Blazejowski Buddy Jeannette

Coaches	Denny Crum Chuck Daly Cesare Rubini

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Springfield, Massachusetts

Members

Coaches (100)

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 Izzo Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Leonard Lewis Litwack Loeffler Lonborg Magee McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire McLendon 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 Italics indicates those who are also inducted as contributors.

Contributors (67)

Abbott Barksdale Bee Biasone H. Brown W. Brown Bunn Buss Clifton Colangelo Cooper Davidson Douglas Duer Embry Fagan Fisher Fleisher Gavitt Gottlieb Granik Gulick Harrison Hearn Henderson Hepp Hickox Hinkle Irish Jones Kennedy Knight Lemon Liston Lloyd McLendon Mokray Morgan Morgenweck Naismith Newell Newton J. O'Brien L. O'Brien Olsen Podoloff Porter Raveling Reid Reinsdorf Ripley Sanders Saperstein Schabinger St. John Stagg Stanković Steitz Stern Taylor Tower Trester Vitale Wells Wilke Winter Zollner

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches.

Players (174)

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 Iverson 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 Posey Richmond Robertson Rodgers Roosma Russell Schommer Sedran Sharman Staley Steinmetz Stockton Swoopes Thomas Thompson Vandivier Wanzer West J. 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 N. White Wilkes Wilkins Worthy Yardley

Centers	Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Beaty 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 O'Neal Parish Pereira Reed Risen Robinson Russell Sabonis Sampson Semjonova Thurmond Unseld Wachter Walton Yao

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches

Referees (16)

Bavetta Enright Garretson 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

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Buddy Jeannette

Head coaching record

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