"Six years ago, in a scandal which wrecked the careers of 30 college athletes and seriously damaged the game itself, it was revealed that gamblers had influenced players to fix games—paying them off in hundreds of dollars while collecting in tens of thousands. There was a hopeful quiet after the 1951 disclosures, but recently the rumors of fixes began again. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Chicago correspondent, Robert H. Boyle, heard that a particularly ugly story was circulating among gamblers. The word was that a certain referee in the Missouri Valley Conference had been "fixing" college basketball games, in cooperation with a betting ring.
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