It had been thirteen long years since the Centennial Cup was claimed by Cleveland, and even longer since Forest City had finished in first place. But with the loop's second best offense, led by Ad Gumbert and Frank Fennelly, Cleveland fashioned a 91-49 mark and took the Midwest Division pennant. Meanwhile, a few hundred miles to the west, the club that had taken that monicker, Rockford, edged out Minneapolis to claim the Plains title. The Keystone race was tight, as one of the two teams that didn't play in Pennsylvania (Toronto) threatened, but the Yellow Jackets held them off.
In the Eastern Conference, the Lowell Chippies -- who had won the old UA double four years earlier -- finished with the best record in the NABU (97-43) to win the Northeast, while Eckford repeated as Empire titlists and Cup-holder Wilmington barely broke a sweat on the way to the Atlantic pennant.
