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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.
The CCNY point-shaving scandal of 1951 was a college basketball point-shaving gambling scandal that officially involved seven American colleges and universities in all, with four of these schools being in the New York metropolitan area, two of them occurring in the Midwest, and one of them being in the South. [1]
The arrests of the three City College players on that February evening were the initial tremor of the earthquake of scandal that hit college basketball. Eventually, District Attorney Frank...
During the 1960–61 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, a major gambling scandal involving a former NBA All-Star basketball player and many members of organized crime syndicates broke through which had ultimately been years in the making.
Sep 27, 2017 · Every few days from March through May, players from a new university were uncovered as part of the vast point-shaving network, which was directed by former Columbia University and NBA player Jack...
Apr 23, 2019 · First, we have to break thestigma around the point-shaving scandal and absolve our students, faculty,players, coaches, and the Harlem community of the burdens they have had to bearas a result of just a few player’s crimes of over 60 years ago.
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Jan 1, 1978 · Had the players in the 1951 college basketball scandals been guilty of more conventional offense—a crime against person or property, a stolen car, a burglary, a simple assault—redemption no...
