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Following Long Island University's founding in 1927, its sports teams wore blue uniforms and became known as the Blue Devils. After the school's uniforms were changed to black in 1935, a Brooklyn Eagle reporter from the Midwest saw the new look as the basketball team dribbled up and down the court and stated that the team looked like the blackbirds from back home; the comment struck home, and ...
Long Island-Brooklyn Blackbirds (1st title) Runner-up: Loyola-Chicago Ramblers: Semifinalists: ... Long Island: 52: Long Island: 36: New Mexico A&M 45 Long Island: 44 ...
Note: The school had gone by "Long Island" until 2013–14, at which time its athletic name became "LIU Brooklyn". Since the football program was discontinued in 1940, decades before the name change (and also well before LIU's Post campus existed), that program's categories should remain "Long Island" for purposes of historic accuracy.
Note: The school had gone by "Long Island" until 2013–14, at which time their school's athletic name became known as "LIU Brooklyn." All seasons 2012–13 and previously should reflect its historical name used.
College football was first played at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus for six seasons from the late 1920s to 1940 when the program was suspended "until the world situation stabilized." [ 3 ] Under head coach Herbert Raubenheimer , who also coached the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball , the team won their opening game on ...
Note: The school had gone by "Long Island" until 2013–14, at which time their school's athletic name became known as "LIU Brooklyn." However, since the football program was discontinued in 1940, long before the name change (and also before the LIU Post campus existed), this category should remain "Long Island" for historic accuracy.
The 1940–41 Long Island Blackbirds men's basketball team represented Long Island University during the 1940–41 NCAA men's basketball season in the United States. The head coach was Clair Bee, coaching in his tenth season with the Blackbirds. [1]
This category is for men's basketball at The Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University before LIU merged the athletic programs of its Brooklyn and Post campuses in July 2019. For the current LIU men's basketball program, see Category:LIU Sharks men's basketball.