Herm Schaefer

Herman Henry Schaefer (December 20, 1918 Ã¢Â€Â“ March 21, 1980) was an American professional basketball player and coach.

A 6'0" guard/forward from Indiana University, Schaefer played in the National Basketball League and National Basketball Association from 1941 to 1950 as a member of the Fort Wayne Pistons, Indianapolis Kautskys, and Minneapolis Lakers. Schaefer later served as coach of the Indianapolis Olympians.

Career playing statistics

NBL

Source

Regular season

|- | style="text-align:left;"|1941–42 | style="text-align:left;"|Fort Wayne | 24 || 85 || 37 || || || 207 || 8.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1942–43 | style="text-align:left;"|Fort Wayne | 21 || 36 || 12 || || || 84 || 4.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1945–46 | style="text-align:left;"|Fort Wayne | 15 || 10 || 3 || || || 23 || 1.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1946–47 | style="text-align:left;"|Indianapolis | 44 || 147 || 65 || 90 || .722 || 359 || 8.2 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#ffe6fa;"|1947–48†| style="text-align:left;"|Minneapolis | 54 || 108 || 72 || 90 || .800 || 288 || 5.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1947–48 | style="text-align:left;"|Indianapolis | 3 || 2 || 6 || 6 || 1.000 || 10 || 3.3 |- |style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 161 || 388 || 195 || 186 || .769 || 971 || 6.0

Playoffs

|- | style="text-align:left;"|1942 | style="text-align:left;"|Fort Wayne | 6 || 13 || 5 || || || 31 || 5.2 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#ffe6fa;"|1943 | style="text-align:left;"|Fort Wayne | 5 || 6 || 3 || || || 15 || 3.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1947 | style="text-align:left;"|Indianapolis | 5 || 22 || 14 || 18 || .778 || 58 || 11.6 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#ffe6fa;"| 1948†| style="text-align:left;"| Minneapolis | 10 || 51 || 31 || 38 || .816 || 133 || 13.3 |- |style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 26 || 92 || 53 || 56 || .804 || 237 || 9.1

NBA

Source

Regular season

Playoffs

Head coaching record

NBA

|- | style="text-align:left;"|Indianapolis | style="text-align:left;"| |66||34||32|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Western||2||0||2|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in NBA semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Indianapolis | style="text-align:left;"| |71||28||43|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Western||2||0||2|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in NBA semifinals |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career ||137||62||75|||| ||4||0||4||

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