The 1925–26 Chicago Bruins season was both the Bruins' first season of existence as a professional franchise (after previously playing at least one season independently as a team) and the first season of existence for the American Basketball League, which was the first professional basketball league that had truly attempted to go fully national after previous professional basketball leagues were mostly regional at the time. The American Basketball League's inaugural season would have nine teams competing in that season (while a tenth team in East Liverpool, Ohio was intended to join the Bruins and the other eight teams in question for this season, the East Liverpool team ultimately withdrew operations before the season even began properly with other failed locations that had submitted entries to start the ABL's inaugural season including Baltimore, Maryland (who eventually got their own team the following season); Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and two more locations in the state of Ohio via Columbus and Camden, p. 125), though the ABL would compete in a split season format with two half seasons being utilized instead of one whole season being utilized throughout the season (which would be the case throughout the majority of the league's existence in the first place). However, by the time the first half of the season ended and the second half of the season began, the Boston Whirlwinds would be expelled from the ABL due to a dispute over player contracts,, p. 410 which led to the ABL entering the second half of the season with only eight teams remaining in their league this time around. In any case, the first season for the Bruins would end up being a poor one for them, as Chicago would end the first half of the season with a tied record for 6th place with a 6–10 record that had them be placed alongside the previously mentioned Boston Whirlwinds and Detroit Pulaski Post Five and be ahead of only the Buffalo Bisons, but finished the second half of their season with a 3–11 record for seventh place to be ahead of only the Detroit Pulaski Post Five in order to have an overall record of 9–22 for this season. Because of that fact, the Bruins would easily fail to qualify for the inaugural playoff/championship series held by this new professional basketball league this season (which would just be a championship series held by the two best teams in each half-season from this specific ABL season played).
Roster Due to information on American Basketball League players being generally hard to find, there are bound to be more gaps and/or inaccuracies found in certain areas on the team's roster spots than usual. Player PositionRed BarakF-CHank BaudeGSoup CampbellG-FRed DeverGArt DexterG-FDuke DunneGCarl HarteliusGIke MahoneyGStretch MillerCLenny SachsGRosy StarnF-CBill TheissenG-FJack TierneyG-FLaurie WalquistGWhitey WickhorstG-F
American Basketball League Standings +First HalfTeamWinsLossesWinning %Brooklyn Arcadians124.750Washington Palace Five / Laundrymen115.688Cleveland Rosenblums106.625Rochester Centrals97.562Fort Wayne Caseys79.438Chicago Bruins610.375Detroit Pulaski Post Five610.375Boston Whirlwinds×610.375Buffalo Bisons / Germans511.322 × – The Boston Whirlwinds were expelled by the end of the first half of the season due to a dispute over player contracts.
+Second Half TeamWinsLossesWinning %Cleveland Rosenblums131.919Washington Palace Five / Laundrymen113.786Rochester Centrals95.643Brooklyn Arcadians77.500Fort Wayne Caseys68.429Buffalo Bisons / Germans59.357Chicago Bruins311.214Detroit Pulaski Post Five212.143
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