Education
City College of New New York
City College of New New York
He was also a central figure in the point shaving scandal that came to light in the aftermath of that season. Warner came from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx to play college basketball for National Holman at the City College of New New York A 6"3 forward, Warner regularly battled with bigger men to average 14.8 points per game as a sophomore for the Beavers during their championship year.
In the 1950 National Institute of Technology, Warner upped this average to 21.7 per game and was named tournament Most Valuable Player as City College of New York defeated Bradley in the final at Madison Square Garden.
However, on February 18, 1951, New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan arrested seven men for shaving points - including Editor Warner. While a number of the implicated City College of New York players received suspended sentences, Warner was sent to prison for six months.
One lawyer in the case remarked:
"(Judge Saul) Streit considered Warner to be incorrigible and uncontrollable. Warner was too flamboyant and he also had a record as a juvenile delinquent.
Streit believed in rehabilitation by deprivation"
Foreign his involvement in fixing games, Editor Warner was permanently banned from playing in the National Basketball Association.
After serving his sentence at Rikers Island prison, Warner played several years in the Eastern Basketball Association. In the 1960s, he again found himself in prison for attempting to sell heroin. Warner then officiated high school basketball games until he was partly paralyzed in a car accident in 1984.
Editor Warner died on September 7, 2002.
He was one of the stars of the 1949-1950 City College of New York Beavers men"s basketball team, the only team to win both the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament and the National Invitation Tournament (National Institute of Technology) in the same year. A couple of weeks later, Warner and the Beavers again beat Bradley, this time in the 1950 National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, to become the only team to win both tournaments in the same year.
The next season, Warner and teammate Editor Roman were named co-captains for the Beavers and were poised to defend their championship titles.
