Believe it! Brooklyn College once had a hockey team.

Yes, there once was a hockey team in Brooklyn, it was in Brooklyn College to be exact.

Games were played in Coney Island’s Abe Stark Arena.

And there’s one man who can prove it: Jeff Lubin.

“Brooklyn College hockey began in 1968 as a dream of a bunch of guys who traveled on Saturday mornings to a rink in West New York, New Jersey to play a sport that they loved,” Lubin wrote in an e-mail to the Brooklyn Eagle.

The club leaders had ambitious goals: to receive recognition and funding from the BC administration and student government, and then join a local college hockey league.

“Their persistence, and hard work was successful,” claimed Lubin, a member of that club. In fact, that club team entered the Metropolitan Collegiate Hockey League in the 1970-71 season.

The leaders didn’t stop there, according to Lubin. “They sought another goal,” he said, “To obtain varsity status for the then club team.”

And, varsity status commenced with the 1971-72 season, thanks to the work of Charles Tobey, then the Brooklyn College Director of Athletics.

Those battles on ice lasted just five seasons BC dropped the great sport of ice hockey after the 1976-77 season.

So why the interest in Brooklyn College hockey some 46 years after its death?

The story isn’t as much about Brooklyn College, or their failed varsity hockey program.
This story centers around one Jeffrey Lubin.

And how he found the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

“I live in Edison, New Jersey,” he wrote in an e-mail, “Due West of Staten Island. Sheepshead Bay is my old neighborhood, I’m a grad of Sheepshead Bay High School and Brooklyn College.”

There’s more.

Here’s how Jeffrey Lubin found the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

It seems Lubin was listening to the Mets baseball broadcast on his car radio last September, when announcer…