General | 8/17/2015 1:12:00 PM
City College of New York welcomed former student-athletes David Laub and Jack Laub back to campus. For David, his last visit was 15 years ago, but for Jack this return comes after over 70 years of being away.
The Laub brothers got a tour of campus complete with a tour for the tour guide noting which buildings are different from when they attended. When the Laub brothers played basketball at CCNY, they played in Wingate, which is now the home of the fitness center.
David Laub first played for the JV basketball team, even though he was an engineering major. He later played for the varsity team under head coach Nat Holman. David was also a teammate of Hall of Famer and NY Knicks coach Red Holzman. He was the only basketball player who was also an engineering major. He enlisted in the Corps of Engineers and served from 1943-1946.
After he was discharged in 1946, he played professional basketball for one year with the Troy Celtics of the American Basketball League. This was one year before the start of the NBA League. He was inducted into the CCNY Hall of Fame in 1998.
Jack Laub played for the Beavers from 1941-1943. After that he served in WWII and upon his return he played for the University of Cincinnati for four years. He is the only student-athlete to legally play six years in the NCAA. Laub was also the first basketball assistant coach at the University of Cincinnati.
After graduating from Cincinnati, Jack was one of the first two Bearcats to be drafted into the NBA in 1950. He was recruited by the Baltimore Bullets, was traded to the Minneapolis Lakers and then played with the Scranton Minters. While he was with the Lakers he played with George Mikan, and while he was with the Miners, Jack helped the team win two championships.
He was inducted into the CCNY Hall of Fame in 2002 and then the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 2014.
The Laub brothers talents did were not just on the basketball court. David Laub has worked within the construction field for years and just retired last year at the age of 93. Jack Laub established the first mail-order pharmacy in New York and streamlined the purchase of generic drugs to consumers.
