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A Team That Chose Principles Over Gold Medals


The 1935-36 Long Island University men's basketball team.

For years, the men said nothing at all. One day they went into an office to cast a vote by secret ballot that changed their lives, and the next day they moved on into a future clouded with doubt. A few days later, a defiant Adolf Hitler pushed German troops into the Rhineland, and there were more pressing concerns than a basketball team and a sacrifice that seemed minuscule in comparison to the storm raging in Europe.
 

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