Jack Hirsch was the starting forward on the Bruins' national championship team in 1964, when he served as co-captain along with Walt Hazzard.
12 Facts About Jack Hirsch
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Jack Hirsch later became an assistant coach in college, and served as the top assistant to Hazzard.
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Hazzard and Hirsch coached at UCLA from 1984 to 1988.
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Jack Hirsch was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Jack Hirsch was born and raised in Brooklyn in New York City in an affluent Jewish family.
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Jack Hirsch's father ran a successful chain of bowling alleys.
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Jack Hirsch's family moved to the Los Angeles district of Van Nuys when he was 14.
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Jack Hirsch attended the University of California, Los Angeles as a favor to his father, who promised to quit his five-packs-a-day smoking habit.
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Jack Hirsch played for the Bruins from 1961 to 1964, starting at forward in his last two seasons.
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Jack Hirsch was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Former UCLA teammate Hazzard became a head coach, and Jack Hirsch was his top assistant starting at Compton College in 1980 for two years and Chapman College for another two.
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Jack Hirsch's family had gone into the pornography industry, which he said back in 1984 was "infinitely cleaner" than college recruiting.