Sports
- Irwin Dambrot – basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal
- Benny Friedman – quarterback at the University of Michigan and NFL player, coached the CCNY football team from 1935 to 1941
- Harold Goldsmith 1952 – foil and épée fencer, won the 1952 NCAA foil championship, competed in three Olympiads for the US, won two Pan American Games gold medals and two silver medals
- Sidney Hertzberg – NY Knicks basketball player
- Red Holzman, 1942 – All-American guard at CCNY, two-time All-Star NBA guard, basketball coach for the New York Knicks, Hall of Famer
- Floyd Layne – basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal; later coached the CCNY men's basketball team
- Nat Militzok (1923–2009), basketball player for the New York Knicks
- Hank Rosenstein – basketball player for the New York Knicks
- Barney Sedran – Basketball Hall of Fame
- Moe Spahn - basketball player
- Henry Wittenberg – Olympic wrestler, won gold medal at 1948 Olympics and silver medal in 1952
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)