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{{infobox basketball club<br />
| name = Fort Wayne General Electrics<br />
| nickname = The Electricians<br />
| founded = 1935<br />
| color1 = white<br />
| color2 = blue<br />
| color3 = blue<br />
| logo = <br />
| leagues = [[Amateur Athletic Association (basketball)|Amateur Athletic Association]]<br /> MBC 1936-1937 <br> [[National Basketball League (United States)|NBL]] 1937-1938 <br>[[National Industrial Basketball League|NIBL]] 1947-1948<br />
| folded = 1948<br />
| history = <br />
| colors = [[blue]], [[white]] <br>{{color box|blue}} {{color box|white}}|<br />
| ownership = [[General Electric]]<br />
| arena = [[North Side High School Gym]] (3,000)<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Fort Wayne General Electrics''' was an amateur basketball team located in [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]] and competed in the [[National Basketball League (United States)|National Basketball League]] and the [[National Industrial Basketball League]]. They joined the [[National Basketball League (United States)|NBL]] (who later formed the NBA) in 1937 but they stayed there for 1 year, returning to their amateur status. In 1947 they were one of the founding members of the [[National Industrial Basketball League|NIBL]] competing there for one season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nbahoopsonline.com/History/Leagues/NBL/Teams/FortWayne/index.html|title=Fort Wayne General Electrics}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
The General Electrics was set up as a corporate industrial team owned by the General Electric cooperation. The goal of the team was to use the games as a means of advertising for their products, and the goal of the players was to have a steady day job while continuing their basketball careers.<br><br />
In 1936, they joined the Midwest Basketball Conference (MBC) and they won their divisional playoff round by forfeit. The Electrics were scheduled to host the [[Dayton London Bobby's]], but just hours before the game the Bobby's manager, [[Ray Lindemuth]] called Electrics manager Bill Hosket and told him the game would not be played, and when Hosket inquired as into why, Lindemuth hung up the phone. But Fort Wayne would lose the Championship series two-games-to-none to the [[Akron Wingfoots]].<br><br />
After playing in NBL for one year, having a record of 13 wins and 7 losses, they joined the Industrial League in 1947, but they finished bottom of the table without a single win. During their NBL time, [[Scott Armstrong (basketball)|Scott Armstrong]] and [[Bart Quinn]] were the team's top players.<br />
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==Team record==<br />
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|colspan="6" | '''Fort Wayne General Electrics'''<br />
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|1936–37 (MBC) || 6|| 13|| .500 || 1||3<br />
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|1937–38 (NBL) || 6|| 7|| .650 || ||<br />
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==Notable players==<br />
* [[Scott Armstrong (basketball)|Scott Armstrong]]<br />
* [[Bart Quinn]]<br />
* [[James Hilgemann]]<br />
* [[Preston Slack]]<br />
* [[Bud Lindberg]]<br />
* [[Claude Holmes]]<br />
* [[Byron Evard]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Fort Wayne General Electrics| ]]<br />
[[Category:Amateur Athletic Union]]<br />
[[Category:1936 establishments in Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:Basketball teams established in 1936]]<br />
[[Category:1948 disestablishments in Indiana]]<br />
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