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Sid Tanenbaum
Sid Tanenbaum (College Basketball. Born, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 8, 1925; died, Far Rockaway, NY, Sept. 4, 1986.) Even though not all of his games were against what would later be classified as collegiate opposition, Sidney Tanenbaum was the first player to score 1,000 points in his N.Y.U. basketball career (1,074). As a sophomore, in 1944-45, […]
Boris Nachamkin
Boris Nachamkin (College basketball. Born, Brooklyn, NY, Dec. 6, 1933.) A lanky 6’6” from Brooklyn’s Thomas Jefferson, Boris Alexander Nachamkin set a then-record at N.Y.U. with 437 points in 1952-53 (in 20 games), averaging 21.8 per game. He also set Violets records for points (1,091) and rebounds (844) in his three-year career of only 63 […]