Founded: 1942 Folded: 1948 Location: Flint, MI Midland, MI Also Known As: Dow Chemicals Arena: Midland High School Gym. (Midland) Industrial Mutual Association Auditorium (Flint) Built in: 1937 (Midland) 1929 (Flint) Capacity: 6,000 in Flint Titles: 0

1945-46 team

Roster

Player	         Pos.	Birth Date	       Height	Weight	Colle
Wallace Borrevik  C-F	November 14, 1921	6'7"	205	Oregon
Robert Calihan	  F	August 2, 1918		6'3"	200	Detroit
Keith Carey	  G	March 5, 1920		6'3"	190	Alma
Frank Carswell	  G	November 6, 1919	6'0"	185	Rice
Richard Furey	  F-G	March 8, 1925		6'3"	195	St. Thomas
Harold Gensichen  G	January 2, 1921		5'11"	170	Western Michigan
Jim Gibbs	  C-F				6'5"	195	Central Missouri State
John Gibbs	  G				6'6"	190	Central Missouri State
Paul Herman	  G				6'1"	175	Tennessee
John Janisch	  F-G	March 15, 1920		6'3"	200	Valparaiso
Charles Joachim	  G-F	July 21, 1920		6'2"	184	Mount Union
Harold Korovin	  C-G				6'5"	205	CCNY
Stan Patrick	  F-G	May 5, 1922		6'2"	185	Illinois
Raymond Patterson F	January 15, 1922	6'2"	195	Wisconsin
Fred Rehm	  G				6'3"	195	Wisconsin
William Sattler	  C	August 9, 1916		6'8"	197	Ohio State

The Dows were one of the many early teams whose history is hard to trace. They originally began as an AAU team but switched to a more semi-pro barnstorming model in about 1942. They were a corporate team that were sponsored by Dow Chemicals, but like many teams of the era would play non sanctioned corporate games and would often use a different moniker.

The team had success in barnstorming and would travel frequently going as far east as New York City and as far west as Los Angeles.

Due to the player shortage because of World War II the Dows would often play college teams in exhabition games. They also would allow non-white players to play on their team.

Smallest of the small markets:
Midland may hold the title of the smallest of all small markets. When the Dow A.C.'s played there, the city was home to less than 10,000 people. If this is true, it would be the smallest city to host a team in a league that would join any of the big four American sports(NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB). By comparison, the city of Green Bay, WI, which is home to the NFL's Green Bay Packers, the smallest market in sports, had 31,000 people at the time of the Packers inception. The smallest NBA market to ever get a new team, Salt Lake City, had 160,000 when the Jazz moved there in 1979.

Beating the soon-to-be National Champs
On February 26, 1944, the Dow Chemical team had one of the better wins in their history. That night they travelled to Salt lake City, Utah and faced the University of Utah Redskins. The Utah Redskins were one of the best college teams that year and the Dow's handled them winning 46-36 at Nielsen Fieldhouse in Salt Lake City. Utah would go on to win the NCAA tournament that season and eventually changed their name to the Utes.

Matt Zunic served as both a player and coach for the Dows. He played for them from 1945-1948 and breifly acted as a coach in 1947-48. Zunic would leave the Dows to go play for the Washington Capitols of BAA.

Season	Team	League	W	L	%	Post Season	Notes
1942-43	Midland Dow Chemicals	INDEP	?	?	?	?	?
1943-44	Midland Dow Chemicals	INDEP	?	?	?	?	?
1944-45	Midland Dows	INDEP	22	5	.811	?	1-1 in WBT
1945-46	Midland Dows	INDEP	36	8	.818	?	1-1 in WBT
1946-47	Midland Dow A.C's	INDEP	?	?	?	?	1-1 in WBT
1947-48	Flint/Midland Dows A.C's	NBL	8	52	.133	none	Disbanded. Played half season in Flint half in Midland.

Keith Carey

Dan Wagner on the cover of a program

Dan Shack

Matt Zunic

Flint Dow AC's program

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