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Location: Atlantic City, New Jersey
Home Court: Fitzgerald Auditorium
Nickname: “The Vandals”
Colors: Navy, Burnt Orange, ivory
Manager: C.M. Cain

They assembled a basketball team that was top rate and became known simply as the Vandals.

The Vandals played their home games in a wire cage at Fitzgerald Auditorium in the seaside resort.

Cages were the norm in New Jersey basketball and they favored tough, physical teams like the Vandals. because they required quite a different and often more challenging style of play than on the open floor.

The Vandals were one of the best Black Fives in the East during World War I, even though their star player and team captain, Mike Briscoe, was drafted into military duty in 1918.

Their best season may have been in 1916-17, when the Vandals won sixteen straight games and played for the Eastern Colored Basketball title.

Their opponents for the championship were Paul Robeson and his heavily favored St. Christopher Club of Harlem.

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