A photograph of the Springfield College Men's Basketball team in a game during their 1981 Caribbean and South American tour. In the image the ball is low to the ground and there are players from each team around it all with their hands raised. It almost looks like the are avoiding the ball. Number 20 for Springfield is the most recognizable player. The exact team they are playing is not able to be determined from this photograph.
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In 1981 the Springfield College Men's Varsity Basketball Team when on a three-week tour of the caribbean and South America. The team left on May 27th and returned on June 17. They played 14 games during this trip. They played six games against Venezuelan teams, three games against clubs from Aruba, two games against the national team from Curacao and three against Club San Carlos, the national champion in the Dominican Republic. It was the most extensive trip taken by an SC team since 1965 when Edward Steitz took the SC Basketball Team to 12 countries around the world as a representative of the US Department of State.
