Astoria Royal Chinooks
The Astoria Royal Chinooks, known also as the Lower Columbia Royal Chinooks, were a professional basketball team based in Astoria, Oregon who played in the Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League (PCBL) during the 1947–48 season. Wally Palmberg, a graduate of Oregon State University, was their player-coach and part-owner.[1] At the start of February, 1948 the Royal Chinooks called a team meeting to announce that they were folding due to low attendance. All of their roster were declared free agents and most of them signed with other clubs.[2] Their home court was Astoria Armory.
Roster
- Bill Magruder, forward
- Rube Wirkkunen, forward
- Ken Hays, center from the University of Oregon
- Jack Howard, guard
- Jim Vernon, guard
- Ty Lovelace, guard from Eugene High School
- Wally Palmberg, guard and head coach from Oregon State University
- Bob Warren, guard
- Erland "Andy" Anderson, forward from Oregon State University
- Frank Smith