The YCO Painters is a former Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association

Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association

The Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association is a defunct sports association which existed from 1938 to 1981. It is best known for its basketball league for amateur players....

 (MICAA) Multi-titled basketball team that started somewhere in the late 1940s up to the 1970s and the Philippines' first cage dynasty, having won several championships in the 1950s and 1960s from the National Open championships as well as the MICAA basketball tournament.

Rivalry

• The YCO Painters are best remembered for their cage wars with rival Ysmael Steel Admirals
  Ysmael Steel Admirals
  The Ysmael Steel Admirals is a defunct franchise of the Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association , best known for its rivalry with the YCO Painters in the 1950s/1960s when both clubs dominated the Cage scene in the Philippines, winning numerous titles in the National Open and the...
  
   for almost two decades as they battle for basketball supremacy during the 50s/60s era, their games were held at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum
  Rizal Memorial Coliseum
  The Rizal Memorial Coliseum is one of two indoor sporting arenas located inside the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Manila, Philippines, the other being the Ninoy Aquino Stadium...
  
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Greatest Player

• Carlos "Caloy" Loyzaga, many-time national player, olympian and hailed as the Philippines' greatest basketball player, was the main man for the YCO Painters, King Caloy would lead his team to the 1960 MICAA championship victory over Ysmael Steel as playing-coach.

Cage Crown

• Its not yet accurate how many titles the Painters won during the 1950s, but they do emerge National Open champions in 1959 and 1960, both times beating the Ysmael Steel Admirals
  Ysmael Steel Admirals
  The Ysmael Steel Admirals is a defunct franchise of the Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association , best known for its rivalry with the YCO Painters in the 1950s/1960s when both clubs dominated the Cage scene in the Philippines, winning numerous titles in the National Open and the...
  
  , they lost to this same team the following year in the National Open title.
• YCO Painters and Ysmael Steel would split the MICAA championships in the first four years of the 1960s, playing against each other with the Painters winning in 1960 and 1963, Ysmael in 1961-1962.
• In the 1961 MICAA finals, with the best-of-three series tied at 1 apiece, YCO default the MICAA title for refusing to play the final game at the Araneta Coliseum
  Araneta Coliseum
  The Smart Araneta Coliseum, known as The Big Dome is an indoor multi-purpose sports arena located in the Cubao area of Quezon City, Philippines...
  
  , thus Ysmael Steel was declared Champions.

Notable YCO players(1950s/1960s)

• Roberto Littaua
• Charlie Badion
• Carlos Loyzaga
  Carlos Loyzaga
  Carlos M. Loyzaga is a former Filipino basketball player and coach. He led the Philippine National team to a Bronze Medal finish in the 1954 FIBA World Championship. The Philippines third place finish remains the highest rank of any Asian team in the history of the tournament...
  
  
• Eddie Lim
• Francis Wilson
• Kurt Bachmann
• Loreto Carbonell
• Emilio Achacoso
• Edgardo Ocampo
  Edgardo Ocampo
  Edgardo L. Ocampo, also known as Ed Ocampo and Eddie Ocampo, was a former Filipino basketball player and head coach. Ocampo was born in Pampanga, Philippines. He played college ball for the Ateneo de Manila University, where he led the team to two championships in 1957 and 1958...
  
  
• Mariano Tolentino
• Jose Laganson
• Cristino Arroyo
• Roberto Yburan
• Amado Martelino
• Adel D. Feliciano
• Orlando Castelo
• Freddie Webb
  Freddie Webb
  Freddie N. Webb is a retired Filipino basketball player and head coach, politician, radio personality, and actor. He also had been active in politics when he was elected as councilor of Pasay City, congressman for Parañaque, and senator...
  
  
• Joseph lee Braun (a reinforcement from San Jose State College)

YCO players in latter years (late 60s-early 70s)

• Freddie Webb
  Freddie Webb
  Freddie N. Webb is a retired Filipino basketball player and head coach, politician, radio personality, and actor. He also had been active in politics when he was elected as councilor of Pasay City, congressman for Parañaque, and senator...
  
  
• Egay Gomez
• Robert Jaworski
  Robert Jaworski
  Robert Salazar Jaworski , also known as Sonny Jaworski, Bobby Jaworski, Robert Jaworski, Sr. or simply Jawo, is a former Philippine senator, basketball coach and Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association and PBA basketball player.Known as The Big J and called The Living Legend...
  
  
• Arturo Valenzona
• Rene Canent
• Marte Samson
• Benjie Cleofas

External Links

http://www.philippinebasketball.ph/forums/bounce-past

• The MICAA Thread at MyPBA.com