Frank Lubin
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Frank John Lubin was a Lithuanian-American basketball player. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins from 1928 to 1931. In 1997, Lubin was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame. He w
Frank Lubin during EuroBasket 1939
Lubin (first) holding the national flag of Lithuania after winning the EuroBasket 1939
Lubin with his wife, daughter and son in 1951
Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the first appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. The tournament was played between 7 and 14 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany
Frank Lubin
…Universal Pictures, and joined the studio's AAU team, which earned the right to represent the U.S. as part of the first Olympic basketball tournament in 1936, where he won the gold. During the 1936 Summer Olympics, Lubin was invited to come to Lithuania, and he became their first national team head coach…
Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball