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The YCO Painters (also known as YCO Athletic Club) were a multi-titled basketball team in the Philippines that was active from the late 1940s to 1981 in the now-defunct Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association (MICAA). The team was founded by businessman and sportsman Manuel “Manolo” Elizalde and owned under his company Elizalde & Co., Inc. The Painters were known as the first basketball dynasty in the Philippines, having dominated the prestigious leagues such as the National Open and the MICAA during the 1950s to early 1960s. The team’s most famous player was Carlos Loyzaga, considered as the greatest Filipino basketball player of his time. The YCO team made basketball history by winning seven consecutive National Open championships (1954-1960), four straight MICAA titles and the first grandslam in local basketball (1954) when the Painters wrapped the National Open, MICAA and Challenge to Champions diadems, including winning 95 out of 109 games. When Elizalde & Co., Inc. became one of nine companies that formed the professional Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) in 1975, the YCO franchise was retained in the amateur ranks and elevated most of its YCO players to their professional PBA franchise, named Tanduay. The YCO franchise ended with the closure of the MICAA in 1982. ==Rivalry with Ysmael Steel Admirals== The Painters were best remembered for its rivalry with the Ysmael Steel Admirals from 1958 to 1967. The Painters and the Admirals would split the MICAA championships in the first four years of the 1960s playing against each other, The Painters won in 1960 and 1963 and the Admirals in 1961-1962. During the 1961 MICAA finals, with the best-of-three series tied at 1-1, YCO defaulted the game for refusing to play in the final game at the Araneta Coliseum and the Admirals were declared champions. The detailed results of this historical rivalry was included in Jose Maria Bonifacio Escoda's 400-page Basketball History: Philippines as follows : The results of the Yco–Ysmael Rivalry (compiled by the author from Manila Bulletin. This remains the first and only published summary of the rivalry between Yco and Ysmael teams. This not include their encounters in the exclude those from 1958-59 where Yco defeated Ysmael in the National Seniors in the 1958 and 1959 National Seniors and Challege to Chmapions. Ysmael, Ysmael who won their first MICAA in 1958 eliminated Yco. Yco, who placed second to Chelsea in 1959 MICAA eliminated Ysmael. Yco Painters versus Ysmael Steel Admirals 1960 -67 MICAA Champions National Seniors Champions 1958 Ysmael (Yco 3rd) Yco 1959 Yco ( 2nd Ysmael 3rd) Yco (UE 2nd ) 1960 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「YCO Painters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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