
David and Goliath
What You Will Learn
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The Battle of Basketball
In 1971, the Fordham University Rams played a basketball game against the University of Massachusetts. The UMass team had Julius Irving who went on to become one of the greatest athletes ever to play basketball. And they were coming up against a team that was really scrapping and that was Fordham. They sucked a bunch of scrappy kids from Bronx and Brooklyn. These tough inner-city kids, even though they're short, didn't give up. Eventually the underdogs, the David's, won 87 to 79.
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