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The 1947–48 Flint/Midland Dow A.C.'s season was the first and only year the Dow A.C.'s franchise played in the United States' National Basketball League (NBL), which was also the eleventh year the league existed. However, if you include their previous seasons of independent play alongside seasons as an Amateur Athletic Union squad that was also later considered to be a works team for the Dow Chemical Company as the Midland Dow Chemicals, this would actually be their sixth and final season of play as a franchise before later folding operations altogether. For some unknown reason, the Midland Dow Chemicals would move from Midland, Michigan to Flint, Michigan for their only season in the NBL at first, rebranding themselves as the Flint Dow A.C.'s at the time before at some unknown point in their season, the Dow A.C.'s would move back to Midland to play as the Midland Dow A.C.'s instead, though most of the home games they played this season would still be in Flint instead of in Midland. Regardless of the odd historic situation at hand for this squad, the Dow A.C.'s would end up having one of the worst seasons in NBL history despite them having Bob Calihan on their roster for close to the entire season, with their full 60-game season resulting in an 8–52 record that would only be barely above the record held by the Detroit Gems from the previous season when they went 4–40 in a 44-game season and the inaugural NBL season's Columbus Athletic Supply team that went 1–12 in a season that was meant to go 20 games long, yet went all over the place for length for the worst NBL seasons ever produced in the league's 12-year history. Eleven teams competed in the NBL in the 1947–48 season, which was composed of six teams in the Eastern Division and five teams in the Western Division after the previous NBL champions of the season, the Chicago American Gears, ended up defecting from the NBL in order to create a very ambitious, yet short-lived rivaling basketball league of their own called the Professional Basketball League of America.
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