CITY DUMP

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rodfromcranston
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For real college basketball junkies, HBO is running a 1998 documentary
called City Dump.
It centers around the CCNY Beavers, the only school ever to win the
NCAA and the NIT in one season. The NIT was the big tournament then,
not the NCAAs.
They were one of a very few schools using Blacks and Jews as their player
base. Nat Holman, their coach was considered one of the best.
A former LIU player was the mob's go between with the fixers and the players.
The season following CCNY's great fete, the FBI arrested three CCNY players,
LIU's All American center and a couple of NYU players.
All for point shaving. None of the tournament games were in question.
Several NBA prospects were banned by the league for life.
The Garden was the hub of college basketball, drawing 750,000 fans during the 1951
season. Post WWll New York City, was basketball crazy.
Local kids all stayed home top play ball.
Needless to say, NYC never recovered to those heights, and CCNY dropped out of
the national picture.
This documentary was fascinating, to say the least.
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Thanks for the tip, Rod! Here's a nice package about Holman, basketball history, and CCNY. Don't forget, this board's namesake and Holman were contemporaries…..


http://digital-archives.ccny.cuny.edu/e ... intro.html
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Interesting, Bress.
An era that should have been wonderful,
destroyed by greed.
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Heh .... when I saw the thread's subject I thought it was about the Dunk.

Rod, thanks for the tip about the documentary. Sounds very interesting.
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It's in On Demand HBO Sports.
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