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The college hockey scandals of 1951 were to basketball what the 1919 Black colored Sox scandals were to baseball - a loss of innocence, and the overall game would be once and for all tarnished, its marriage to ability and big money firmly proven. In Scandals of '51, Charley Rosen recognizes all the major characters - including players, coaches, gangsters, clergymen, politicians - that made-up the intricate network that manipulated the outcomes to numerous games or secured those who did so. Rosen shows who received captured and who didn't, and what role category, race, and religion played in identifying this.