The real action came on Feb. 18, 1951, when City College players Ed Warner, Ed Roman and Al Roth were arrested on charges of bribery in Penn Station, New York. They were returning home from Philadelphia where City beat Temple, 95-71. The arrests of the three City College players on that February evening were the initial tremor of the earthquake of scandal that hit college basketball. Eventually, District Attorney Frank Hogan arrested 32 players from seven colleges who fixed 86 games between 1947 and 1950.
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