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The Top Ranked Small 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 | Bob Feerick | 3 |
| 2 | Robert Calihan | 22 |
| 3 | Freddie B. Lewis | 26 |
| 4 | Stan Patrick | 32 |
| 5 | Leo Klier | 50 |
| 6 | Johnny Norlander | 54 |
| 7 | Ariel Maughan | 56 |
| 8 | Dick Schulz | 57 |
| 9 | Hal Tidrick | 58 |
| 10 | Luther Harris | 77 |
| 11 | Andrew Levane | 79 |
| 12 | Irv Torgoff | 85 |
| 13 | Bulbs Ehlers | 95 |
| 14 | Al Lucas | 105 |
| 15 | Tony Jaros | 108 |
| 16 | Al Brightman | 113 |
| 17 | Milton Ticco | 117 |
| 18 | John Abramovic | 120 |
| 19 | Jack Maddox | 125 |
| 20 | John Janisch | 126 |
| 21 | Reuben Lautenschlager | 138 |
| 22 | Ben Schadler | 143 |
| 23 | Ralph Vaughn | 144 |
| 24 | Jack Smiley | 151 |
| 25 | Tommy Byrnes | 156 |
| 26 | Gene Stump | 160 |
| 27 | Michael Bytzura | 161 |
| 28 | Ed Stanczak | 163 |
| 29 | Al Guokas | 164 |
| 30 | George Mearns | 169 |
| 31 | Raymond Patterson | 175 |
| 32 | Odie Spears | 178 |
| 33 | Elwood Norris | 182 |
| 34 | Albert Grenert | 183 |
| 35 | Jack Dwan | 187 |
| 36 | Gale Bishop | 192 |
| 37 | Ned Endress | 200 |
| 38 | Paul Huston | 208 |
| 39 | Price Brookfield | 210 |
| 40 | Johnny Ezersky | 220 |
| 41 | Charles Butler | 228 |
| 42 | Jewell Young | 230 |
| 43 | Howie McCarty | 233 |
| 44 | Delbert Loranger | 236 |
| 45 | John Moir | 240 |
| 46 | Bill Calhoun | 241 |
| 47 | Arnie Ferrin | 242 |
| 48 | Wilfred Doerner | 246 |
| 49 | Otto Graham | 248 |
| 50 | Paul Noel | 250 |
| 51 | Easy Parham | 252 |
| 52 | Thomas Sealy | 255 |
| 53 | Connie O'Connor | 263 |
| 54 | Henry O'Keeffe | 265 |
| 55 | John Meehan | 271 |
| 56 | Doyle Parrack | 279 |
| 57 | Paul Widowitz | 280 |
| 58 | Ray Kuka | 282 |
| 59 | Roy Hurley | 283 |
| 60 | Guy Mitchell | 297 |
| 61 | Pete Lalich | 298 |
| 62 | Ed Parry | 302 |
| 63 | John Kotz | 311 |
| 64 | Lee Robbins | 319 |
| 65 | Dillard Crocker | 327 |
| 66 | Dick Fitzgerald | 328 |
| 67 | Bob Dille | 331 |
| 68 | Howard Cable | 333 |
| 69 | Albert Campbell | 335 |
| 70 | William Komenich | 338 |
| 71 | Moe Becker | 348 |
| 72 | Deb Smith | 351 |
| 73 | Tommy Rich | 357 |
| 74 | Chet McNabb | 363 |
| 75 | Paul McCall | 365 |
| 76 | Phil Farbman | 366 |
| 77 | Marshall Brown | 374 |
| 78 | Pete Pasko | 375 |
| 79 | Richard Furey | 376 |
| 80 | Nat Frankel | 381 |
| 81 | Joe Patanelli | 382 |
| 82 | Frank Fucarino | 384 |
| 83 | Doyle Cofer | 392 |
| 84 | Earl Gardner | 393 |
| 85 | Lester Rothman | 396 |
| 86 | Ralph Bishop | 400 |
| 87 | Roscoe Cumberland | 401 |
| 88 | Edwin Oram | 406 |
| 89 | Walt Miller | 407 |
| 90 | George Kaftan | 413 |
| 91 | Paul Napolitano | 415 |
| 92 | Jack Spencer | 419 |
| 93 | Otto Schnellbacher | 422 |
| 94 | Ben Scharnus | 424 |
| 95 | James Goff | 426 |
| 96 | Billy Reed | 430 |
| 97 | Delbert Rice | 431 |
| 98 | Jack Walton | 433 |
| 99 | Hillery Brown | 437 |
| 100 | Leroy Pryor | 438 |
| 101 | Stan Brown | 443 |
| 102 | Matthew Vaniel | 447 |
| 103 | Matt Guokas Sr. | 449 |
| 104 | Bob Schwartz | 453 |
| 105 | Nick Hashu | 456 |
| 106 | Paul Yesawich | 457 |
| 107 | Joe Fabel | 460 |
| 108 | Bill Brown | 463 |
| 109 | Marvin Huffman | 464 |
| 110 | Andy Kostecka | 468 |
| 111 | Hank Lefkowitz | 471 |
| 112 | Bob Rensberger | 475 |
| 113 | Fred Jacobs | 477 |
| 114 | John Sines | 484 |
| 115 | Charles Peyton | 493 |
| 116 | Glenn Adams | 497 |
| 117 | Jacob Nagode | 502 |
| 118 | Jack Keller | 509 |
| 119 | Wilbur Schumacher | 518 |
| 120 | Eddie Wollen | 521 |
| 121 | Jack Oberst | 523 |
| 122 | Robert Grove | 528 |
| 123 | Fred Gantt | 531 |
| 124 | Charles Epperson | 545 |
| 125 | William Jones | 549 |
| 126 | Bill Miller | 552 |
| 127 | Ben Goldfaden | 556 |
| 128 | Bob John Duffy | 559 |
| 129 | Paul Mount | 564 |
| 130 | Frido Frey | 577 |
| 131 | Pat Rooney | 580 |
| 132 | Herschel Baltimore | 583 |
| 133 | Gene James | 586 |
| 134 | Ralph Churchfield | 588 |
| 135 | Gino Sovran | 614 |
| 136 | Armand Cure | 617 |
| 137 | Bob Hanshaw | 618 |
| 138 | Kenneth Oberbruner | 620 |
| 139 | Gene Gillette | 622 |
| 140 | Nat Militzok | 628 |
| 141 | Hal Crisler | 630 |
| 142 | Moe Spahn | 631 |
| 143 | Hagan Andersen | 642 |
| 144 | Ocie Richie | 646 |
| 145 | Chester Francis | 652 |
| 146 | John Barr | 656 |
| 147 | Benjamin Schall | 657 |
| 148 | Al Lujack | 659 |
| 149 | Dick Lange | 661 |
| 150 | Carter O'Rourke | 668 |
| 151 | John Gibbs | 669 |
| 152 | Russell Wilkins | 670 |
| 153 | Shikey Gotthoffer | 675 |
| 154 | Albert Schrecker | 677 |
| 155 | Robert Parsons | 680 |
| 156 | Nicholas Frascella | 682 |
| 157 | Darrell Brown | 684 |
| 158 | Lou Spicer | 687 |
| 159 | John Murphy (1891) | 696 |
| 160 | John Drish | 701 |
| 161 | Zano Wast | 710 |
| 162 | Albert Moschetti | 713 |
| 163 | Emil Sotnyk | 716 |
| 164 | Johnny Bach | 726 |
| 165 | Irving Noren | 732 |
| 166 | Virgil Batterman | 734 |
| 167 | Fred Sheffield | 735 |
| 168 | Paul Price | 741 |
| 169 | Red Wolfe | 743 |
| 170 | Frank Beaty | 749 |
| 171 | Pete Berenson | 755 |
| 172 | Chester Strumillo | 761 |
| 173 | Herbert Ball | 763 |
| 174 | Willie Rubenstein | 766 |
| 175 | James Kuplic | 776 |
| 176 | Joe Lord | 779 |
| 177 | Tom Becker | 782 |
| 178 | Warren Fenley | 784 |
| 179 | Robert MacLeod | 787 |
| 180 | Ash Resnick | 790 |
| 181 | Tony Krygier | 791 |
| 182 | Lenny Weiner | 796 |
| 183 | George Morse | 798 |
| 184 | Ben Auerbach | 799 |
| 185 | Red Dehnert | 800 |
| 186 | John Piana | 803 |
| 187 | Thomas Edwards | 805 |
| 188 | Oscar Olson | 814 |
| 189 | Mickey Kupperberg | 819 |
| 190 | Whitey Wilson | 828 |
| 191 | Harold Dembo | 829 |
| 192 | Bernard Knoblauch | 830 |
| 193 | Karl Lillge | 832 |
| 194 | Chili Edelstein | 833 |
| 195 | Chink Morganstine | 835 |
| 196 | Jack McCloskey | 844 |
| 197 | Mickey Homa | 847 |
| 198 | Garmon Lewis | 851 |
| 199 | Ted Hanauer | 852 |
| 200 | Roy Leenig | 857 |
| 201 | Joe Polcha | 859 |
| 202 | Julie Bender | 862 |
| 203 | Tommy Bell | 867 |
| 204 | Tom Flanagan | 874 |
| 205 | Leon Brown | 875 |
| 206 | Joe Proksa | 877 |
| 207 | Verne Cox | 881 |
| 208 | Jack McLaughlin | 883 |
| 209 | Mac Posnack | 890 |
| 210 | Don Markward | 893 |
| 211 | Chick Craig | 895 |
| 212 | Devon Smith | 902 |
| 213 | Corky Stanton | 908 |
| 214 | Dixie Lee | 921 |
| 215 | Lenny Radar | 926 |
| 216 | Jackie Bowden | 929 |
| 217 | Johnny Danyo | 932 |
| 218 | Paulie Adamo | 933 |
| 219 | Sam Leibowitz | 941 |
| 220 | Les Rothman | 945 |
| 221 | George Garber | 952 |
| 222 | Bucky Pierson | 954 |
| 223 | Danny Gaines | 956 |
| 224 | Artie Lockheed | 964 |
| 225 | Bill Martin (1917) | 965 |
| 226 | Kit Carson | 966 |
| 227 | Porky Rosenthal | 967 |
| 228 | Danny Kaplowitz | 974 |
| 229 | Sid Blair | 980 |
| 230 | Joe Dougherty | 982 |
| 231 | Ben Pagliaroli | 988 |
| 232 | Ray Bowman | 992 |
| 233 | Paul Walker | 1001 |
| 234 | Joe Dinkwoods | 1016 |
| 235 | Mendy Snyder | 1019 |
| 236 | Bob Dougherty | 1020 |
| 237 | Jack Curran | 1035 |
| 238 | Tommy McConnell | 1036 |
| 239 | Barney Goldberg | 1041 |
| 240 | Bill Koehler | 1042 |
| 241 | Frank Licitra | 1043 |
| 242 | Neal Toombs | 1055 |
| 243 | Norm Drucker | 1056 |
| 244 | Mike Yovic | 1058 |
| 245 | Ossie Prokopic | 1067 |
| 246 | Emil Piestrak | 1070 |
| 247 | Red Allen | 1078 |
| 248 | Bud Long | 1080 |
| 249 | Bernie Griggs | 1086 |
| 250 | Andy Siket | 1089 |
| 251 | Bobby Stine | 1091 |
| 252 | Danny Sandler | 1093 |
| 253 | Phil Markoff | 1097 |
| 254 | Kenny Hopkins | 1101 |
| 255 | Alfie Burch | 1102 |
| 256 | Paul Marcincin | 1103 |
| 257 | Larry Doby | 1108 |
| 258 | LeRoy Wattley | 1109 |
| 259 | Al Mabel | 1114 |
| 260 | George Milhaven | 1121 |
| 261 | Jack Carpian | 1122 |
| 262 | Ludwig Hilf | 1123 |
| 263 | Little John Wilson | 1127 |
| 264 | Woody Sponaugle | 1133 |
| 265 | Swede Masin | 1136 |
| 266 | Harry Kovner | 1141 |
| 267 | Bill Huskek | 1149 |
| 268 | Don Manno | 1152 |
| 269 | Nick Dietterick | 1159 |
| 270 | Ray Jackson (1925) | 1160 |
| 271 | Art Heffner | 1163 |
| 272 | Kayo Iwanicki | 1173 |
| 273 | Mel Ginzburg | 1187 |
| 274 | Fred Bernhart | 1200 |
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