Hey Guys Any History Detectives Want to Help Me Out?

[Future Walk-On]

My dad graduated from BU in 1977....he went to an auction type thing around this time, where they were selling field house memorabilia...he got a piece of the orginal FH floor free throw line and a jersey. The jersey pic is below and it was apparently a game worn jersey....no name on back...

The jersey had to be worn by a player who was small. I can barely get it on. A guard maybe 5'8" - 5"10 and skinny.

Is there anyway to find rosters of all the old teams and see whose it was? It is from Keenan's Sporting Goods and made by Rawlings.....

Of course it could still not even be a real game worn jersey.

[MacabreMob]

Here's all the guys who wore #12 and the years they wore up to 1979:

Don Alford 1948-51
Wes Mason 56-58
Levern Tart 61-62
Bobby West 62-64
Alex McNutt 64-65
Bob Swigris 65-67
Bill Rohlman 69-70
Mike Harrell 71-72
Carl Maniscalco 78-79

[Future Walk-On]

Here's all the guys who wore #12 and the years they wore up to 1979:

Don Alford 1948-51
Wes Mason 56-58
Levern Tart 61-62
Bobby West 62-64
Alex McNutt 64-65
Bob Swigris 65-67
Bill Rohlman 69-70
Mike Harrell 71-72
Carl Maniscalco 78-79

THANKS Tons Mob.

Anyway to find out their heights and weight???? So I can narrow down who would have fit in it?

[tornado]

I have a jersey from the same sale -- and it is Paul Unruh's #15 from 1948, and it is identical to that one -- so I would have to believe it is from the same era as I am sure they used uniforms for a few years at a time before redesigning new sets......thus yours would be Alford's
Indeed mine is also very slender as the players back then did NOT do much lifting and were all quite slender..just look at pics and confirm...also some of those jerseys have been worn many, many times down the years as practice jerseys and freshmen team jerseys (back when BU had a separate freshman team) - so they've been washed thousands of times and have likely shrunk!

Back in the late 90's Bradley did a preseason game when the players wore "Throwback jerseys" from 50 years earlier and the throwback jerseys (which were then auctioned after the game and I have a couple, the #15 and Bayo's #55) were re-designs of that same late 1940's jersey...

[Da Coach]

Here's all the guys who wore #12 and the years they wore up to 1979:

Don Alford 1948-51
Wes Mason 56-58
Levern Tart 61-62
Bobby West 62-64
Alex McNutt 64-65
Bob Swigris 65-67
Bill Rohlman 69-70
Mike Harrell 71-72
Carl Maniscalco 78-79

I have media guides for every year going back to the early 1950s.
Some years in the 1960s do not include pictures of the players in uniform. But what I was able to tell from looking at the media guides is that there were other varsity players who wore #12 that are not on that list (e.g. Ron Johnson in the early 1950's, and Chuck Hewitt '58-59). I am not sure why they don't all appear on Bradley's all time numerical roster. And in addition, Bradley had a freshman team for all those years, since freshmen were not eligible to play on the varsity, and there are many more players who wore #12 on those freshman teams.

From what I can see in the pictures in the media guides, I do not think it from the 1940s or 1950s. None of the uniforms from the 1950's and earlier had the side stripe on the jersey. That does not appear until around 1960. So my best guess is that the jersey is from the early 1960's.
The uniform you pictured appears to be early 1960s, but unfortunately, that gets into the era when the media guides were smaller and contained no pictures of players in uniform. It maybe could be Leverne Tart from 61-62, or Bobby West from 62-64, but I don't have pictures to confirm that.
I think it is more likely it is from one of the freshman teams of that era, since those uniforms would have been more likely to end up in a bin of old uniforms that would later be sold or auctioned off. Some of the freshmen who wore #12 were people who nobody here would recognize, such as Fred Hackendahl (62-63) or Mike Conklin (63-64) and others.

If anyone has old Bradley Anaga yearbooks from the early 1960s, there might be more pictures of game action or players with the uniforms on that could help.

[tornado]

Here, I believe, is a picture of Paul Unruh wearing a similar jersey from around 1948...
this is modified "artwork" on a trading card from the era and thus it may not match exactly the photo it came from

[Double D]

My guess is that in the era of "freshman" basketball, the freshman team would wear "hand me down" uniforms from the varsity. So even if that jersey was worn by a member of the freshman team, it was likely a varsity jersey previous to that.

Just a guess.

[Beninator]

Here, I believe, is a picture of Paul Unruh wearing a similar jersey from around 1948...
this is modified "artwork" on a trading card from the era and thus it may not match exactly the photo it came from

That is a cool card. I didn't realize that Unruh had a card from that era. I did some research and discovered that the Berk Ross cards were issued in panels. A little trivia, the player on the Unruh panel was Eddie Waitkus whose story was somewhat the inspiration for the novel The Natural.

[Braves4Life]

..... It maybe could be Leverne Tart from 61-62......

I think I'd just tell everyone it's Tart's old jersey FWO.

[Da Coach]

My guess is that in the era of "freshman" basketball, the freshman team would wear "hand me down" uniforms from the varsity. So even if that jersey was worn by a member of the freshman team, it was likely a varsity jersey previous to that.

Just a guess.

This was true for most of the 50's and 60's, and probably until they disbanded the freshman teams in the 70's. However, there appear to be a lot more players who wore #12 on freshman teams (almost every year), then there ever were that wore #12 on the varsity teams. That would suggest that if the uniforms did get handed down, the varsity team probably had #12 jerseys even in years when no varsity players wore that number.

So without being able to see more photos from the 60's, it could be Leverne Tart's, but it's possible that the #12 jersey may have been an extra jersey from a season that was not worn until it passed to the freshman team. It does look like it has a lot of wear.

What does the back look like?

[Future Walk-On]

This was true for most of the 50's and 60's, and probably until they disbanded the freshman teams in the 70's. However, there appear to be a lot more players who wore #12 on freshman teams (almost every year), then there ever were that wore #12 on the varsity teams. That would suggest that if the uniforms did get handed down, the varsity team probably had #12 jerseys even in years when no varsity players wore that number.

So without being able to see more photos from the 60's, it could be Leverne Tart's, but it's possible that the #12 jersey may have been an extra jersey from a season that was not worn until it passed to the freshman team. It does look like it has a lot of wear.

What does the back look like?

ok finally took a picture. too busy to keep up with anything.