Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Basketball hall of fame inductee Nat Holman coached the CCNY basketball team in three different stints during the 1950s. Under Holman, CCNY became the only team in men's college basketball history to win both the National Invitation Tournament and the NCAA Tournament in the same year (1950). However, this accomplishment was overshadowed by the CCNY point-shaving scandal in which seven CCNY basketball players were arrested in 1951 for taking money from gamblers to affect the outcome of games.
From 1934 until 1941, future NFL Hall of Fame inductee Benny Friedman was the football coach at City College.
In 1938, future four-time Olympian Daniel Bukantz was the intercollegiate foil champion. Future Olympian James Strauch fenced for CCNY, graduating in 1942. In 1948, future Olympian Abram Cohen was a member of the NCAA Champion CCNY team. That same year future five-time Olympian Albert Axelrod was U.S. Intercollegiate Fencing Association and NCAA Champion in foil. Harold Goldsmith, a future …
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