American basketball, football, and baseball player
Bulbs Ehlers
Ehlers in 1948
Personal information
Born
(1923-03-10)March 10, 1923 Joliet, Illinois, U.S.
Died
June 17, 2013(2013-06-17) (aged 90) South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight
198 lb (90 kg)
Career information
High school
South Bend Central (South Bend, Indiana)
College
Purdue (1942–1943, 1946–1947)
BAA draft
1947: 1st round, 3rd overall pick
Selected by the Boston Celtics
Playing career
1947–1949
Position
Forward / guard
Number
14
Career history
1947–1949
Boston Celtics
Career BAA statistics
Points
800 (8.1 ppg)
Rebounds
Not recorded
Assists
177 (1.8 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Edwin Sheffield "Bulbs" Ehlers (March 10, 1923 – June 17, 2013) was an American professional basketball player. Standing 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) and weighing 198 pounds (90 kg), he played the forward and guard positions. Ehlers was drafted third overall in the inaugural 1947 BAA draft by the Boston Celtics. In two seasons in the league, both with the Celtics, Ehlers averaged 8.1 points per game.
Though born in Joliet, Illinois; Ehlers was raised South Bend, Indiana and attended South Bend Central High School. While there, he played basketball for future Hall of Fame player and coach John Wooden. Ehlers attended Purdue University, lettering for the Boilermakers in three sports; basketball, football, and baseball.
In addition to being the Celtics' first ever draft pick, the National Football League's Chicago Bears selected him in the 31st round (293rd overall) in the 1947 NFL Draft. The New York Yankees of Major League Baseball also signed him. He spent five seasons playing minor league baseball: three seasons with the Yankees and two with the Chicago Cubs. He spent the majority of his career at the AAA level, playing for such teams as the Kansas City Blues, Newark Bears and the Springfield Cubs.
Bulbs Ehlers was the father of NFL player Tom Ehlers; his granddaughters, Emily and Jessica, played intercollegiate volleyball at Purdue University and Campbell University respectively. His grandson, Scott Dreisbach, played football at the University of Michigan and spent several seasons in the NFL and the AFL.
He is unique in being a member of both the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and the Indiana Football Hall of Fame; he was inducted into the basketball hall in 1980,[1] and the football hall in 1985.[2]
Edwin Sheffield "Bulbs" Ehlers (March 10, 1923 – June 17, 2013) was an American professional basketball player. Standing 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) and weighing...
currently resides in Mishawaka, Indiana. Ehlers is the son of former National Basketball Association player BulbsEhlers. In 1988, he joined his father in the...
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– Pierre F. Côté, Canadian lawyer and civil servant (b. 1927) 2013 – BulbsEhlers, American basketball player (b. 1923) 2013 – James Holshouser, American...
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team included quarterback Bob DeMoss, guard Dick Barwegen, and back BulbsEhlers. DeMoss ranked ninth nationally with 59 pass completions, good for 814...
were assistant coaches for the team. Salt Lake AAB's roster included BulbsEhlers and Bob Ingalls. In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Salt Lake AAB ranked...
School in Mishawaka, Indiana. He is the grandson of Edwin "Bulbs" Ehlers and the nephew of Tom Ehlers. Dreisbach enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1994...
Bibber (1929–1930) Dutch Fehring (1932–1934) Felix Mackiewicz (1938–1940) BulbsEhlers (1943, 1946) Bob Kelly (1946–1947) Bill "Moose" Skowron (1950) Joe McCabe...
Canadian civil servant, Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec (1978–1997). BulbsEhlers, 90, American basketball and baseball player. Jim Goddard, 77, English...
(Registration required) Halden, Grace (Spring 2015). "Incandescent: Light bulbs and conspiracies". Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal and Research Network...
doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2009.12.012. Hughes, Philip D.; Gibbard, Philip L.; Ehlers, Jürgen (2020). "The "missing glaciations" of the Middle Pleistocene". Quaternary...
Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2008-12-23. Ehlers, U. (January 1986). "Comments on a phylogenetic system of the Platyhelminthes"...
statoliths". Scanning Electron Microscopy (4): 1609–1618. PMID 11539690. Ehlers, U. (1997). "Ultrastructure of the statocysts in the apodous sea cucumber...
constructed a thermometer, using the expansion and contraction of air in a bulb to move water in an attached tube.[citation needed] In 1609, Galileo was...
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