Irwin Dambrot
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Irwin Dambrot was an American basketball player, best known for his college career at the City College of New York.
Dambrot, c. 1950
In 1951, allegations of point-shaving and match fixing in college basketball revealed widespread bribery and corruption involving major colleges and universities in and around New York City, particula
The 1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team, led by coach Nat Holman, are the team most associated with the point-shaving scandal, having won both the 1950 NCAA tournament and the 1950 National Invitation Tournament. Several players from that team (as shown here) would later be implicated in the scandal in 1951.
Months after participating in multiple college tournaments against CCNY, multiple players from this Bradley University roster would be implicated in the point-shaving scandal.