Wilt Chamberlain secretly dominated professional basketball at age 16 under a false identity. Scoring as much as 46 points against pros in the Eastern U.S. with a team record of 36-1. By age 17 he was averaging 40.5ppg. This is the first time I&#039;m sharing this research:Wilt Chamberlain Dominating Professional basketball leagues at age 16, and 17

Calculated averages for 17 year old Wilt as a Quakertown Fay:


40.5ppg in 9 regular season games (according to one of the articles)
74ppg in 6 playoff games (according to the math... not sure it&#039;s even possible but who knows)
53.9ppg in 15 total games (according to a Quakertown book)
Worth mentioning he won the MVP award in that league


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Wilt Chamberlain, or as he was first known, &quot;George Marcus&quot;, secretly dominated professional basketball under that assumed identity at age 16 for the Pittsburgh Raiders. Even as a kid against 6-11 men his own size playing professionally (such as former Harlem Globetrotters!) he averaged 53.9ppg by age 17. I found game recaps of multiple 46 point performances for the Quakertown Fay&#039;s at age 17, and at least one 44 point game even at age 16 for the Pittsburgh Raiders.

This is not only not often talked about, it&#039;s NEVER talked about. I&#039;ve seen only a few references to his professional career that predated college basketball. When I researched this I found out it got him into potential trouble with the NCAA and so it was kept hushed and perhaps left to be forgotten.

EDIT Allow me to plug one other researcher who I&#039;ve come to learn first shared the photographs of Wilt playing for the Fay&#039;s a few years ago. I found him on Twitter, and here&#039;s a link to a fascinating video he produced!

https://twitter.com/storyrd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un5HPRWW4Yk

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IMPORTANT UPDATE - According to a Quakertown book (researched by bardown staff) Wilt actually averaged 53.9ppg in all 15 games as a Quakertown Fay! He &quot;only&quot; averaged 40.5ppg in 9 regular season games but with playoffs combined his 15 game average shoots up to 53.9ppg! This means 74ppg in the 6 playoff games as a Fay. I&#039;m not sure if this is even possible so please take with a grain of salt. Though he did score 90 points in high school and 100 in the NBA including 5 other 70+ point games so who knows. This being against former pros his own size too including 6-11 former Globetrotter Andy Maddox!
