As with many other NBL teams, they owed their name to an industry of their hometown, in this case the Willys-Overland Jeep Plant.
The 1946–47 team featured players such as Chips Sobek, Hal Tidrick, Jule Rivlin and rookie Paul Seymour.
[2] It would, however, be invited to the 1947 World Professional Basketball Tournament, where it finished 2nd behind the Indianapolis Kautskys.
In the 1947–48 NBL season, Sobek, Tidrick and Rivlin returned, and were joined by Dick Mehen and Harry Boykoff.
[3] The 1948 season proved to be the Jeeps' last; they were replaced for the NBL's final campaign with the Waterloo Hawks, who inherited Mehen and Boykoff.