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The Top Ranked Power Forwards of the 1940s
Notes: This list is based on pro stats.
What players did in college is not factored into this list.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Gene Englund | 5 |
| 2 | Joe Fulks | 6 |
| 3 | Bob Carpenter | 8 |
| 4 | George Glamack | 13 |
| 5 | Bones McKinney | 21 |
| 6 | Mike Todorovich | 34 |
| 7 | Jim Pollard | 35 |
| 8 | Bob Doll | 36 |
| 9 | Leo Mogus | 40 |
| 10 | Blackie Towery | 42 |
| 11 | Bill Closs | 48 |
| 12 | Bud Palmer | 61 |
| 13 | Dick Mehen | 63 |
| 14 | Dolph Schayes | 70 |
| 15 | James Homer | 71 |
| 16 | Howie Dallmar | 72 |
| 17 | Hoot Gibson | 75 |
| 18 | Charlie Black | 81 |
| 19 | Milo Komenich | 83 |
| 20 | John Chaney | 91 |
| 21 | Chuck Gilmur | 98 |
| 22 | Arnie Johnson | 99 |
| 23 | Marshall Hawkins | 102 |
| 24 | Bob Brannum | 114 |
| 25 | Bernard Mehen | 119 |
| 26 | Max Morris | 121 |
| 27 | Walt Budko | 124 |
| 28 | Jake Carter | 127 |
| 29 | Andy Duncan | 130 |
| 30 | Elmer Gainer | 131 |
| 31 | Gerard Bush | 132 |
| 32 | Grady Lewis | 136 |
| 33 | Giff Roux | 137 |
| 34 | George Crowe | 142 |
| 35 | Joe Camic | 148 |
| 36 | Edmund Lewinski | 152 |
| 37 | Floyd Volker | 154 |
| 38 | Bob Faught | 167 |
| 39 | Morris Udall | 168 |
| 40 | Art Spector | 170 |
| 41 | Alex Hannum | 174 |
| 42 | James Usry | 203 |
| 43 | Don Ray | 207 |
| 44 | Harry Gallatin | 217 |
| 45 | Chuck Connors | 221 |
| 46 | Brady Walker | 224 |
| 47 | Connie Mack Berry | 229 |
| 48 | Paul Sokody | 232 |
| 49 | Bob Fitzgerald | 234 |
| 50 | Leslie Deaton | 239 |
| 51 | Louis Barle | 251 |
| 52 | Mike Bloom | 257 |
| 53 | Chet Carlisle | 262 |
| 54 | Tom Meyer | 272 |
| 55 | Al Negratti | 273 |
| 56 | Jack Cotton | 285 |
| 57 | Pop Goodwin | 287 |
| 58 | Coulby Gunther | 288 |
| 59 | John Mandic | 290 |
| 60 | Ken Buehler | 313 |
| 61 | Harold Devoll | 316 |
| 62 | Vince McGowan | 321 |
| 63 | Edward Erban | 326 |
| 64 | Ward Williams | 337 |
| 65 | Robert Synnott | 339 |
| 66 | Jack Tingle | 341 |
| 67 | Bob O'Brien | 342 |
| 68 | Darwin Hutchins | 343 |
| 69 | Nicholas Grunzweig | 345 |
| 70 | George Fields | 352 |
| 71 | Raymond Terzynski | 353 |
| 72 | George Hesik | 354 |
| 73 | Robert Lowther | 367 |
| 74 | John Townsend | 368 |
| 75 | Joe Graboski | 373 |
| 76 | Robert Powell | 385 |
| 77 | Bernard Price | 389 |
| 78 | Scott Armstrong | 408 |
| 79 | Richard Evans | 409 |
| 80 | Virgil Vaughn | 411 |
| 81 | Daniel Smick | 412 |
| 82 | Bob Shea | 416 |
| 83 | Gordon Flick | 421 |
| 84 | Lowell Galloway | 428 |
| 85 | Bob Brown | 435 |
| 86 | Bob Gantt | 444 |
| 87 | John Dugger | 446 |
| 88 | John Styler | 451 |
| 89 | Bill Coven | 469 |
| 90 | Jim Montgomery | 473 |
| 91 | Homer Thompson | 474 |
| 92 | Jack Hewson | 486 |
| 93 | Ed Bogdanski | 487 |
| 94 | Willard Swihart | 491 |
| 95 | Aud Brindley | 492 |
| 96 | Dean White | 494 |
| 97 | Don Grate | 495 |
| 98 | John Poncar | 507 |
| 99 | Jack Rocker | 515 |
| 100 | Jack Mills | 516 |
| 101 | Theodore Strong | 517 |
| 102 | Willard Pederson | 524 |
| 103 | James Birr | 529 |
| 104 | Splinter Johnson | 532 |
| 105 | Irving Terjesen | 533 |
| 106 | Russell Saunders | 534 |
| 107 | Stanley Zadel | 542 |
| 108 | Harold Korovin | 547 |
| 109 | Joe Sotak | 557 |
| 110 | Cortez Gray | 579 |
| 111 | Eugene Lorendo | 585 |
| 112 | Leo Osiewalski | 587 |
| 113 | Harold Cihlar | 590 |
| 114 | Hank Rosenstein | 591 |
| 115 | Inky Lautman | 595 |
| 116 | Shannie Barnett | 598 |
| 117 | Thermon Blacklidge | 600 |
| 118 | Cy Boardman | 608 |
| 119 | Walter Stankey | 610 |
| 120 | Steve Juenger | 611 |
| 121 | Raymond Adams | 612 |
| 122 | Ace Abbott | 613 |
| 123 | Howard Adams | 619 |
| 124 | Raymond Morstadt | 623 |
| 125 | Moe Dubilier | 626 |
| 126 | Louis Possner | 627 |
| 127 | Carl Tollstam | 632 |
| 128 | Bill Davis | 636 |
| 129 | Red Rosan | 643 |
| 130 | Frank Mekules | 644 |
| 131 | Lauren Gale | 645 |
| 132 | Dick Wehr | 653 |
| 133 | Erwin Graf | 654 |
| 134 | Bob Cotton | 660 |
| 135 | Fred Paine Jr. | 662 |
| 136 | Warren Ajax | 663 |
| 137 | Al Johnson | 666 |
| 138 | Bill O'Brien | 667 |
| 139 | Walt Czarnecki | 673 |
| 140 | Warren Schrage | 674 |
| 141 | Donald Elser | 685 |
| 142 | Butch Schwartz | 688 |
| 143 | Jack Scarry | 691 |
| 144 | Nicholas Yost | 695 |
| 145 | Eddie Boyle | 697 |
| 146 | Ben Kramer | 712 |
| 147 | Doug Holcomb | 722 |
| 148 | Harold Hull | 731 |
| 149 | Paul Kessy | 733 |
| 150 | Earl Hawkins | 736 |
| 151 | Jim Quinlan | 740 |
| 152 | Irv Davis | 759 |
| 153 | Jake Bornheimer | 764 |
| 154 | Frank Otway | 770 |
| 155 | Bill Lane | 785 |
| 156 | Wilbur Fox | 795 |
| 157 | Joe Colone | 815 |
| 158 | Arnold Jones | 827 |
| 159 | Steve Chanecka | 840 |
| 160 | Anthony Carp | 843 |
| 161 | Jimmy Joyce | 845 |
| 162 | Jake Ahearn | 855 |
| 163 | Harry Fitzpatrick | 856 |
| 164 | Paul Klapprodt | 861 |
| 165 | George Petrovik | 868 |
| 166 | Vince Verdeschi | 869 |
| 167 | Bill McKeever | 873 |
| 168 | Bill Nash | 878 |
| 169 | Don Gleasner | 879 |
| 170 | Sol Broder | 880 |
| 171 | Bill Kraus | 898 |
| 172 | Jerry Bush | 900 |
| 173 | Frank Conaty | 901 |
| 174 | Tommy O'Connell | 904 |
| 175 | Ernie Gomez | 906 |
| 176 | Milt Ticco | 910 |
| 177 | Pete Yousaitis | 911 |
| 178 | Bill Zirkel | 912 |
| 179 | Red Pasch | 914 |
| 180 | Ray Kodish | 918 |
| 181 | Charley Schmidli | 925 |
| 182 | Russ Guensch | 927 |
| 183 | Dutch Newman | 928 |
| 184 | Si Lobello | 930 |
| 185 | Irv Schneider | 931 |
| 186 | Red Furey | 938 |
| 187 | Dan Christie | 940 |
| 188 | Tony Bodego | 942 |
| 189 | Art Zahn | 950 |
| 190 | Bill Pless | 951 |
| 191 | Bink Manning | 953 |
| 192 | Jack Flannery | 955 |
| 193 | Herb Bloom | 957 |
| 194 | Milt Breenberg | 968 |
| 195 | Larry Baxter | 971 |
| 196 | Murray Heilweil | 972 |
| 197 | Frank Sebest | 984 |
| 198 | Ed Golub | 985 |
| 199 | Marsh Gemberling | 990 |
| 200 | Jimmy Hernjak | 994 |
| 201 | Ole Terjesen | 996 |
| 202 | George Syby | 998 |
| 203 | Lou Decsi | 1000 |
| 204 | Dave Bass | 1002 |
| 205 | Charley Trinkle | 1004 |
| 206 | Lee Craddock | 1007 |
| 207 | Ray Posipanko | 1014 |
| 208 | Dick Dewees | 1015 |
| 209 | Dave Fox | 1024 |
| 210 | Ed Trubin | 1028 |
| 211 | Bill Levine | 1029 |
| 212 | Tom Gorman | 1033 |
| 213 | Alan Friedman | 1038 |
| 214 | Lee Brymesser | 1052 |
| 215 | Tony Derago | 1054 |
| 216 | Franny Bock | 1066 |
| 217 | Don Galloway | 1072 |
| 218 | Paul Coront | 1074 |
| 219 | Al Widmar | 1075 |
| 220 | Bob Hulton | 1076 |
| 221 | Bob Mulheisen | 1082 |
| 222 | Jack French | 1085 |
| 223 | Red Faber | 1100 |
| 224 | Joey Thomas | 1106 |
| 225 | Joe Oslai | 1107 |
| 226 | Wally Geoghan | 1117 |
| 227 | Jerry Bussell | 1119 |
| 228 | Bob Williams | 1126 |
| 229 | Jimmy Doran Jr. | 1130 |
| 230 | Mel Flick | 1135 |
| 231 | Frank Majczan | 1146 |
| 232 | Bob Walsh | 1150 |
| 233 | George Dietrick | 1211 |
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