COLLEGE PLAYERS BRIBED
CHARGES IN NEW YORK BASKETBALL «*. 130 pm.) b NEW YORK February 20. J-Wttd after all-night questioning, y Long Island University basketball gratrafewed to-day that they took than xJ.OOO dollars in gamblers' to deliberately lose their games. Jto connexion between the gamblers rj college players was first exposed ?®onth by a negro star in the zj™ttan College team. He had been raacned with a tempting offer to /g* A large squad of undercover I?* then began an investigation. Players or former players from J* York colleges have been arrested SJJhbery charges in recent weeks, have detected a total of 41,500 ’*** paid out in bribe money.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26353, 22 February 1951, Page 7
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