Ed Voss
{{short description|American basketball player (1922–1953)}}
{{for|American botanist|Edward Groesbeck Voss}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Ed Voss
| position = Center
| number = 5
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 5.5
| weight_lb =
| nationality = American
| birth_date = 1922
| birth_place =
| death_date = March 21, 1953 (aged 31)
| death_place = Oakland, California
| highschool = University (Oakland, California)
| college = Stanford (1940–1943)
| career_start =
| career_end =
| highlights =
}}
Ed Voss (1922 – March 21, 1953) was an American basketball player.
College basketball career
A {{convert|6|ft|5.5|in|cm|0|abbr=on}} center from University High School in Oakland, California, Voss played collegiately for Stanford University.{{cite news
|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/03/25/NEWS16326.dtl
|title='42 champs pull for repeat in '98
|last=Chapin
|first=Dwight
|work=San Francisco Chronicle
|date=March 25, 1998
|access-date=September 13, 2011}}{{cite book
|last=Migdol
|first=Gary
|title=Stanford: Home of Champions
|page=102
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntBDmB_fYo8C&pg=PA102
|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC
|year=1997
|isbn=1-57167-116-1
}} As the team's starting center, he helped Stanford to the 1942 NCAA Championship, in which he played all 40 minutes and scored 13 points.{{cite web
|url=http://espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?replayId=996
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107152254/http://espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?replayId=996
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=November 7, 2012
|title=Dartmouth Big Green vs. Stanford Cardinal - Box Score - 1942
|work=ESPN.com
|access-date=September 12, 2011}}
After college
Following his college career, Voss played for the Oakland Bittners of the Amateur Athletic Union, and was a member of the Bittners' 1949 AAU championship team.{{cite news
|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/23/84396267.pdf
|title=Dies of polio month after son
|date=March 23, 1953
|access-date=September 13, 2011
|newspaper=The New York Times
}} Married with three children, he died of polio at the age of 31, a month after his 7-year-old son also succumbed to the disease. He is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.
References
{{Reflist}}
{{1942 Stanford Indians men's basketball navbox}}
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Category:Amateur Athletic Union men's basketball players
Category:Basketball players from Oakland, California
Category:Stanford Cardinal men's basketball players
Category:American men's basketball players
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