Fred Linari

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Fred Linari

| position = Forward

| number =

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 9

| weight_lb =

| nationality = American

| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|07|21}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|11|1|1920|07|21}}

| death_place =

| highschool = San Francisco Poly
(San Francisco, California)

| college = Stanford (1941–1943)

| career_start =

| career_end =

| highlights =

NCAA champion (1942)

}}

Frederick J. Linari (21 July 1920 - 2 November 2012){{cite news|title=Fred Joseph Linari|url=http://obits.staradvertiser.com/2012/11/06/fred-joseph-linari/|accessdate=27 October 2013|newspaper=Honolulu Star-Advertiser|date=6 November 2012}} is an American former basketball player.

Basketball career

A forward from San Francisco Polytechnic High School, Linari 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

|accessdate=September 16, 2011}}{{cite book

|last=Migdol

|first=Gary

|title=Stanford: Home of Champions

|page=102

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntBDmB_fYo8C&pg=PA5

|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC

|year=1997

|location=

|isbn=1-57167-116-1

|accessdate =}} He was a reserve on Stanford's 1942 national championship team. In the championship game, Linari was pressed into action in the game after starting forward Don Burness was unable to continue due to an ankle injury incurred earlier in the tournament. At just {{convert|5|ft|9|in|m}}, Linari nonetheless filled in ably for the {{convert|6|ft|3|in|m|adj=on}} Burness, playing 31 of 40 game minutes and scoring six points to help the Indians win the championship.{{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

|publisher=ESPN.com

|accessdate=September 16, 2011}}