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- Officials discovered that fixers were secretly paying college players to throw off points at certain matches during the season. The key money man was Salvatore Sollazzo, a jeweler and gambler with a criminal record.
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The CCNY point-shaving scandal of 1950–51 was a college basketball point-shaving gambling scandal that involved seven American schools in all, with four in the New York metropolitan area, two in the Midwest, and one in the South.
During the 1960–61 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, a major gambling scandal broke. The scandal involved 37 arrests of students from 22 different colleges. Jack Molinas, already a known gambling associate from the CCNY point shaving scandal in 1951, was implicated in this
Big time college basketball survived near destruction in 1951. Though another major scandal developed in 1961 and several lesser scandals developed in the '70s, '80s and '90s, the sport...
Mar 16, 2020 · By February 1951, Warner, Roman and Roth would be arrested in a widespread point-shaving scandal that would eventually ensnare seven players from CCNY — including Dambrot, Mager, Layne and...
May 11, 2023 · Multiple point shaving and betting scandals rocked college basketball between 1945 and 1961 involving the City College of New York (CCNY), Manhattan College, New York University, Long...
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Mar 23, 2015 · Despite the constant talk about the need to pay college athletes, academic infractions, and even improper benefits, there has never been a college basketball scandal quite to the scale of the one that happened 64 years ago in New York City. This is the story of the 1951 CCNY Point Shaving Scandal.
Apr 3, 2020 · April 03, 2020. Jonathan Chang. Just a year after winning the 1950 NIT and the NCAA Tournament, City College players were arrested for their involvement in a point shaving scandal. (AP) This...
