Founded: 1944 Folded: 1946 Location: Cleveland, OH Arena: Cleveland Auditorium Built in: Capacity: Titles: None

The Cleveland Allmen Transfers played for two seasons (1944-1946). During the team’s first season, the squad finished second in the the National Basketball League’s Eastern Division. The team won thirteen and lost seventeen games. The team still made the playoffs, but the Transfers lost in the first round. During the 1945-1946 season, the Cleveland Allmen Transfers finished last in the Eastern Division, amassing four wins and twenty-nine losses. Due to the team’s dismal performance, the Cleveland Allmen Transfers disbanded at the end of the season.

Bruins Studebaker Brassman Transfers Nations 76ers?
There has been some debate on if the franchises of the Cleveland Chase Brassman, Cleveland Allmen Transfers, Syracuse Nationals and Philadelphia 76ers are all the same franchise. To put it simply, they are not.

The Brassman were allowed to join the NBL after George Halas pulled the Bruins/Studebakers from the NBL due to World War II. Halas got the keep the rights to his team and had the ability to re-instatement should he want to. The Brassman were owned by a different group and their funding ran out at the end of the 43-44 season. The Transfers did take the Brassmen's place but had different ownership, sponsors and considered themselves to be a different team all-together.

The inclusion of the Nationals is where things get sticky. Danny Biasone was upset because the Rochester Royals refused to play a game in Syracuse, so he went to the NBL about buying a team. Biasone did buy the franchise charter from Cleveland, but he wiped the history clear and never kept the history and none of the players tranferred to Syracuse. The NBL too considered the Nationals to be a new team.

Its pointed out that the Lakers keep the Gems history, but that is a different scenario that here. The Minneapolis group paid money to the Detroit group for the Gems and their history, Biasone never acquired the history for the Transfers. The money Biasone paid, $5,000, was the standard amount for a new franchise in the NBL.

News story about the Chicago American Gears vs the Cleveland Allmen Transfers from Christmas Eve 1944.

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