http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2010/02/26/opinion/doc4b86afd587272555725238.txt
Opinion
This Day in 1910 in The Record: Feb. 26, 1910
Published: Friday, February 26, 2010
By Kevin Gilbert
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Saturday, Feb. 26, 1910. The Manhattan College basketball team has been stripped of its amateur standing by the Amateur Athletic Union as a punishment for playing the RPI team in Troy today, The Record reports.
The ruling by the governing body of amateur sports implies that RPI itself is not an amateur team. If not, that’s most likely because members of the Troy team have played basketball or some other sport on a professional basis.
While tonight’s game may mean nothing to the AAU, it means a lot to the 400 fans who turn up at the RPI gym to see it.
“The appearance of the Manhattan team is always a matter of local interest because of the number of alumni of Manhattan in this city,” our sportswriter explains, “and then, too, to add local color, there are two Troy boys, Nugent and Conway, playing on the Manhattan five.”
Nugent, Manhattan’s center, faces a Troy High classmate, RPI’s Steinmetz, at midcourt. “Nugent is conceded to be the bulwark of the Manhattan five,” our writer notes, “and it was up to Steinmetz, who had a slight disadvantage in weight, to play his former teammate to the best of his ability.
“The struggle between these two men was keen throughout the game and in cases where the two men were struggling for possession of the ball the only relief was the referee’s whistle for a toss-up.”
The game as a whole proves a close contest, but at first it looks as if it’ll be an RPI blowout.
“The locals had such a substantial lead at the end of the first half that there was no doubt as to the ultimate result of the game,” our correspondent recounts, “Shortly after the opening of play in the second half the result of the game about which there had previously been no doubt loomed up with a big question mark following it.”
Leading 23-8 at halftime, RPI sees its lead dwindle under a steady Manhattan assault. “The visitors reversed the tables and payed around the institute men, who before they were able to recover themselves found that they had only a lead of one basket on the visitors. Here the contest began in earnest, and up to the time that the referee’s whistle sounded both of the teams were playing with all main and might.”
RPI finally pulls away for a hard-fought 32-24 victory
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[JR: ROFL! Yeah, I know get a life!]
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