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2 unusual facts about Toronto Huskies


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Attendance quickly dwindled and the Toronto Star published an estimate that team owners Eric Cradock (co-owner of the Montreal Alouettes football team) and Harold Shannon lost $100,000 in one season of operations.

After four games with interim coaches (Hayman coached one game, and Huskies player Dick Fitzgerald ruled the bench for three games), Hayman hired former Major League Baseball player Red Rolfe, who had also been coach of Yale University's basketball team.


Annis Stukus

Stukus was a consultant to the Toronto Huskies basketball team in its one season of operations in 1946–47.

Ed Kasid

Edward I. Kasid (August 13, 1923 – November 3, 1989) was a Polish American professional basketball player who spent one season in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as a member of the Toronto Huskies during the 1947–48 season.

Neil Cohalan

The game, a November 1, 1946 contest between the Knickerbockers and the Toronto Huskies played in famed Maple Leaf Gardens, was won 68-66 by the Knickerbockers.


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