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1947 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams 8 Finals Site Madison Square Garden New York City Champions Holy Cross (1st title) Runner-Up Oklahoma (1st title game) Semifinalists CCNY (1st Final Four) Texas (2nd Final Four) Winning Coach Doggie Julian (1st title) MOP George Kaftan Holy Cross Attendance 72,959 Top scorer George Kaftan Holy Cross (63 points) |
The 1947 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in
single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division
I college basketball. It began on March 19, 1947, and ended with the championship
game on March 25 in New York City. A total of 10 games were played, including
a third place game in each region and a national third place game. Holy Cross, coached by Doggie Julian, won the national title with a 58-47 victory in the final game over Oklahoma, coached by Bruce Drake. George Kaftan of Holy Cross was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. This was the first tournament in which a national third place game was held, a tradition which would continue until the 1982 tournament. This was a step short of a true "Final Four," however, since the national semifinals were still played in their respective East and West regional locations. The true Final Four would not emerge until the 1952 tournament. |
Holy Cross's athletic teams for both men and women are known as the Crusaders. It
is reported that the name "Crusader" was first associated with Holy Cross in 1884
at an alumni banquet in Boston, where an engraved Crusader mounted on an armored
horse appeared at the head of the menu. The name was rediscovered by Stanley Woodward, a sports reporter for the Boston Herald, when he used the term "Crusader" to describe the Holy Cross baseball team in a story written in 1925. |
The College of the Holy Cross is an exclusively undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal
arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Holy Cross is the oldest
Roman Catholic college in New England and one of the oldest in the United
States. Opened as a school for boys under the auspices of the Society of Jesus, it was the first Jesuit college in New England. |
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The name appealed to the Holy Cross student body, which held a vote later in that
year to decide whether this cognomen or one of the other two currently in use
- "Chiefs" and "Sagamores"- would be adopted. On October 6, 1925, The Tomahawk,
an earlier name of the student newspaper, reported that the results of the ballot
were: Crusaders 143, Chiefs 17, Sagamores 7. The school color is purple. There are two theories of how Holy Cross chose purple as its official color. One suggests it was derived from the royal purple used by King Constantine the Great (born about 275 A.D., died in 337 AD) as displayed on his labarum (military standard) and on those of later Christian emperors of Rome. |
