1920
Post-Season game, at 22nd Regiment Armory:
3/6 N.Y.U Frosh 20 - C.C.N.Y. Frosh 17 O.T.
N.Y.U. 39 - C.C.N.Y. 21 ~10,000 (record New York attendance at time)
1931
Annual Unemployment Benefit Carnival, at Madison Square Garden
1/19 St. John's 17 - C.C.N.Y. 9 15,000 (others: Columbia 26 - Fordham 18; Manhattan 16 - N.Y.U. 14)
1931-32
Annual Unemployment Benefit Carnival, at Madison Square Garden
12/31 C.C.N.Y. 23 - Fordham 11 14,500 (others: Columbia 22 - N.Y.U. 17; St. John's 16 - Manhattan 6)
Benefit game, at Rockland Palace (280 West 155th):
3/5 C.C.N.Y. 43 - Howard University 26 1,500 (High scorer: Moe Spahn, 14 points.) 41-20?
[Charity game for the Gibson Fund of Harlem & the Washington Community Chest.] [1st g.: Bronx YMCA 23-19 135th St. YMCA Seniors]
Exhibition Doubleheader, at Rockland Palace
3/12 Bill Webb's CCNY All-Stars 27 - George Gregory Harlem All-Stars 24 [1st g.: YMCA Seniors W-L NYU Physical Education]
1933
Annual Unemployment Benefit Carnival, at Madison Square Garden
2/22 CCNY 37 - George Washington 26 (eve.) 15,000 (others: St. John's 35 - Fordham 20; N.Y.U. 35 - Carnegie Tech 31)
Nat Holman, Original Celtic and CCNY coach arranged an experimental basketball game, a demonstration game, which eliminated the center tap-off, the center-jump after every score.
A College All-Stars team was formed of players from C.C.N.Y. and St. John's
Center-tap Elimination Experimental Game, at the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A.
4/2 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. 28 - C.C.N.Y & St. John's All-Stars 25
1934
Post-Season game, at Madison Square Garden
[game for 3/20 or 3/21 versus Notre Dame called off..]
1936
Olympic Trials, at Madison Square Garden
[The players vote against participating in the Division 1 Olympic Eliminations in protest against Olympics taking place in Berlin.]
1937
Metropolitan A.A.U. Championships, at the Hippodrome, New York City
First Round:
2/28 C.C.N.Y. 38 - Fort Jay Hawks (Governor's Is.) 20 (g. 1: Union Temple 30 - Printer's Devils of Staten Island 25; 2nd-Ohrbach A.A. 33 - Nizolck Homemakers of Hudson County 29; 3rd- L.I.U. A.A. 47 - Frank Effert A.A. 25]
Quarter-final:
3/2 C.C.N.Y. 26 - Ohrbach A.A. 22 (other g.-Brooklyn Col. 39 - 26 Yonkers Gaels 26; Union Temple 41 - Goddard 30)
Semi-final
3/7 C.C.N.Y. 33 - Brooklyn College 22 (other semi: L.I.U. A.A. 28 - Union Temple 23)
Championship game:
3/8 Long Island University A.A. 28 - C.C.N.Y. 23 O.T. 1,200 (Consol.- Union Temple 40 - Brooklyn Col. 22)
Special Post-Season demonstration game, at Madison Square Garden
[Most of this game played without center tap after every score and with modified 3-second rule as demonstration.]
3/10 N.Y.U. Frosh 32 - C.C.N.Y. J.V. 28 (aft.) (eve. doubleheader: NYU 38 - CCNY 32; St. Francis 24 - St. John's 22 7,500)
1939
German Refugee Fund Benefit Game, at Manhattan Center
1/29 C.C.N.Y. 48 - C.C.N.Y. Alumni 21 5,000
1941
National Invitation Tournament, at Madison Square Garden
First Round:
3/18 C.C.N.Y. 64 - Virginia 35 15,751 (other g.- Ohio 55 - Duquesne 40)
Semi-final:
3/22 Ohio 45 - C.C.N.Y. 43 18,357 (other semi: L.I.U. 49 - Seton Hall 26)
[At this time a team could request a game be played in quarters rather than halves. C.C.N.Y. coach Holman requested quarters. C.C.N.Y. had a break-away lay-up disallowed at the end of the first quarter although no whistle had blown. But rules were rules. C.C.N.Y. lost by 2 points.]
Consolation game:
3/24 C.C.N.Y. 42 - Seton Hall 27 18,377 (Final: L.I.U. 56 - Ohio 42)
1942
N.I.T., at Madison Square Garden
First Round:
3/19 Western Kentucky 49 - C.C.N.Y. 46 17,860 (Other g.- Toledo 82 - Rhode Island State 71)
Army Emergency Relief Benefit game, at Madison Square Garden
3/28 C.C.N.Y. 42 - L.I.U. 34 16,251 (1st g.- U. S. Army 2nd Corp 59 - N.I.T. All-Tournament team 57)
[Above game also for Metropolitan basketball championship. C.C.N.Y.'s Red Holtzman was presented with award for best player of the year in New York City area.]
1947
N. C. A. A. Tournament
District 2 Playoff, at Troy (N.Y.) Armory
(First Round):
3/14 C.C.N.Y. 61 - Syracuse 59 5,000
Eastern Regionals, at Madison Square Garden
Regional Semi-final:
3/20 C.C.N.Y. 70 - Wisconsin 56 18,473 (1st g.- Holy Cross 55 - Navy 47)
Regional Championship:
3/22 Holy Cross 60- C.C.N.Y. 45 18,470 (Consol. g.- Wisconsin 50 - Navy 49)
National 3rd place game, at Madison Square Garden:
3/25 Texas 54 - C.C.N.Y. 50 18,445 (Championship g.- Holy Cross 58 - Oklahoma 47)
1948
Metropolitan A.A.U. Championships, at Union Temple (17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn)
First Round:
2/9 Hebrew Educational Society 59 - C.C.N.Y. School of Commerce Hucksters 55 (2nd g.- Union Temple 55 - Brooklyn Central YMCA 29)
1949
N.I.T., at Madison Square Garden
First Round:
3/12 Loyola of Chicago 62 - C.C.N.Y. 47 18,156 (1st g.- Bowling Green 77 - St. John's 64)
1950
Metropolitan A.A.U. Championships
First Round, at 69th Regiment Armory (Lexington Ave. & 23rd St.):
2/26 Union Temple 60 - C.C.N.Y. School of Commerce 39 (&- Hofstra AA 65 - Carlton YMCA 48; LIU Frosh 71 - Grand St. Boys 40; Lady of Angel 62 - Iona Frosh 30)
N.I.T., at Madison Square Garden
First Round:
3/11 C.C.N.Y. 65 - San Francisco 45 (aft.) 17,000 (other g.- Western Kentucky 79 - Niagara 72)
Quarter-final:
3/14 C.C.N.Y. 89 - Kentucky 50 18,000 (Largest deficit loss by Kentucky to this day; 1st g.- Duquesne 49 - La Salle 47)
Semi-final:
3/16 C.C.N.Y. 62 - Duquesne 52 18,000 (other semi: Bradley 83 - St. John's 72)
Championship:
3/18 C.C.N.Y. 69 - Bradley 61 18,000 (Consol- St. John's 69 - Duquesne 67 O.T. )
Champions!
N. C. A. A., at Madison Square Garden
Eastern Regional
Semi-final (1st round):
3/23 C.C.N.Y. 56 - Ohio State 55 18,000 (2nd g.- North Carolina State 87 - Holy Cross 74)
Regional Championship:
3/25 C.C.N.Y. 78 - North Carolina State 73 18,000 (Consol g. - Ohio State 72 - Holy cross 52)
National Championship:
3/26 C.C.N.Y. 71 - Bradley 68 18,000 (Consol. g.- North Carolina St. 53 - Baylor 41)
Champions!
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Sis boom bah - team team team!!
Daily Worker May Day Exhibition game, at St. Nicholas Arena
[Graduating C.C.N.Y. graduating seniors and alumni were to play exhibition on May Day (4/1) as a professional team, but withdrew after realizing Daily Worker, the sponsor, had communist affilitiation.]
1951
Pan-American Games, at Buenos Aires, Argentina
C.C.N.Y. invited to participate in (Feb.-Mar.) 1951 Pan-Am Games in Apr. 1950; turn down 4/6/1950. Invited were 7 players from CCNY & 7 from the AAU Phillips Oilers (who also declined invitations).
1957
[Note: The N.A.I.A. Tournament in Kansas City rejected District 31's recommendation for the tournament, but wouldn't reveal the school. I am thinking it may have been C.C.N.Y. due to the 1950 point shaving scandals.]
N. C. A. A. College Division Tournament
First round, at Emmitsburg, Maryland:
3/4 Mount St. Mary's (Md.) 93 - C.C.N.Y. 84
1976
N. C. A. A. Division III Tournament
Eastern Regional, at Troy, N.Y. (R.P.I.)
First round (Semi-final):
3/12 C.C.N.Y. 94 - Rochester Institute of Technology 69 (2nd g.- Plattsburgh 68 - R.P.I. 65)
Regional championship: (S.U.N.Y. champions vs. C.U.N.Y. champions.)
3/13 Plattsburgh State 83 - C.C.N.Y. 81
1977
E. C. A. C. Playoffs Divisions 2-3 Playoffs (Invitational)
Metropolitan Region New York-New Jersey Region, at Kean College, Union, N.J.
First round (Semi-final):
3/4 Kean College 67 - C.C.N.Y. 61 (C.C.N.Y. replace N.Y. Tech who reject invite; 1st g.- C.W. Post 71 - Pratt 67)
Consolation game:
3/5 Pratt Institute 71 - C.C.N.Y. 67 (Championship: Kean 64 - C.W. Post 63)
2001
N. C. A. A. Division III Tournament
First round, at DuFour Center, Catholic U., Washington, D.C.:
3/1 Catholic University 82 - C.C.N.Y. 65 att: 950
2003
N. C. A. A. Division III Tournament
First round, at King's Point, N.Y.:
3/6 King's Point Merchant Marine Academy 63 - C.C.N.Y. 57
Notes:
Nat Holman, coach 1918-1954
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