On Wednesday, March 1, 1933, Pacific Coast Conference basketball referee Emil Piluso decided he'd had enough.
Two weeks earlier, University of Oregon students at a home basketball game against Oregon State thought Piluso wasn't being fair to their team, and they made their feelings known during the tilt. Oregon coach Bill Reinhart, it seems, did nothing to rein in the students.
Heckling a referee? Questioning his judgment and motivations? In this simpler era before TV, the internet and March Madness, it simply wasn't acceptable.
Oregon State won that Feb. 18 showdown by a score of 29 to 18 in a "conservative game, marked by close guarding" -- a family-newspaper way of saying the players were thumping each other.