Jack Dana
{{short description|American basketball player}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Jack Dana
| position = Forward
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| nationality = American
| birth_date = December 17, 1921
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| death_date = January 1983 (aged 62)
| death_place = Lafayette, California
| highschool = Piedmont (Piedmont, California)
| college = Stanford (1941–1943)
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Jack Herbert Dana (December 17, 1921 – January 1983) was an American basketball player.
Basketball career
A forward from Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California, Dana 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 15, 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
|isbn=1-57167-116-1
}} He was a reserve on Stanford's 1942 national championship team, but in the championship game, starting forward Jim Pollard had the flu and was unable to play. Dana started in Pollard's place, played all 40 minutes, and scored 14 points, one point behind high scorer Howie Dallmar.{{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 15, 2011}}
After college
Dana received an engineering degree from Stanford, then served in the United States Navy during World War II, and was honorably discharged as a lieutenant. He earned an MBA from Stanford and married Renée Cohu, daughter of airline executive La Motte Cohu, in 1948.{{cite news
|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/02/03/94936591.pdf
|title=Jack Dana to wed Miss Renee Cohu
|date=February 3, 1948
|newspaper=New York Times
|access-date=September 15, 2011
}} Dana was a prominent insurance broker. He and his wife had two children and were married until his wife's suicide in 1970.{{cite news
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hvIsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KGYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6290,3196291
|title=Woman found dead in Miami is missing California socialite
|newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune
|date=February 11, 1970
|access-date=September 15, 2011
}} Dana died in 1983.{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|access-date=September 15, 2011}} He was posthumously inducted into the Piedmont High School sports hall of fame.
References
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{{1942 Stanford Indians men's basketball navbox}}
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Category:American men's basketball players
Category:United States Navy personnel of World War II
Category:Forwards (basketball)
Category:Sportspeople from Piedmont, California
Category:Basketball players from Alameda County, California
Category:Stanford Cardinal men's basketball players
Category:United States Navy officers
Category:Military personnel from California
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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