Jack Weldon Israel (April 3, 1934 – September 17, 2017) was an American

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

player who was drafted by the New York Knicks in the 14th round of the 1959 NBA draft from

Southwest Missouri State University Missouri State University (MSU or MO State), formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university in Springfield, Missouri. Founded in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School, it is the state's second largest university by enr ...

. He attended the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...

for his freshman year (1951–52) before joining the

Navy A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions. It in ...

. After his military commitment, he returned to

Springfield, Missouri Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. The city's population was 169,176 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which had an estimat ...

and finished his college basketball career at Missouri State. In his post-basketball career he became a teacher, coach, counselor, assistant principal, principal, assistant superintendent, superintendent, and college professor.

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Jack Israel obituary
1934 births 2017 deaths American men's basketball players Basketball players from Missouri High school basketball coaches in the United States Missouri State Bears basketball players Missouri Tigers men's basketball players New York Knicks draft picks Sportspeople from Springfield, Missouri University of Illinois alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni {{1930s-US-basketball-bio-stub