1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team 1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team The 1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team represented the City College of New York. The head coach was Nat Holman, who was one of the game's greatest innovators and playmakers. Unlike today, where colleges recruit players from all over the country, the 1950 CCNY team was composed of "kids from the sidewalks of New York City," who had been recruited by Holman's assistant coach Harold "Bobby" Sand from PSAL schools such as Taft, Clinton, Boys, Erasmus, and Franklin High Schools. The "Starting 5" consisted of two black and three Jewish players. The team is
Starting lineup normal time (and another three if there is extra time), from a bench of 9 or sometimes 11 substitutions; substitutions are not numbered in any particular order. The starting lineup in hurling or camogie is the same as that for Gaelic football. In ice hockey, a team starts out with six players on the ice: The starting forwards are typically known as the "top line" or "first line", as most professional teams rotate four distinct three-man forward lines and three defense pairings. In ice hockey, a team must submit their starting lineup to the opposing team's captain and to the