Jack Shaffer

{{short description|American basketball player}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Jack Shaffer

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| position = Forward / center

| number =

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

| weight_lb = 190

| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|8|13}}

| birth_place = Grand Island, Nebraska

| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|6|17|1909|8|13}}

| death_place = Akron, Ohio

| nationality = American

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| college =

• Doane
• DePaul

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| years1 = 1934–1935

| team1 = Olsen's Terrible Swedes

| years2 = 1935–1936

| team2 = Akron Firestones

| years3 = 1936–1938

| team3 = Akron Firestone Non-Skids

| years4 = 1940–1941

| team4 = Fort Wayne

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John Cleo Shaffer (August 13, 1909 – June 17, 1963) was an American professional basketball player.{{cite web| title = John Shaffer NBL stats| work =basketball-reference.com| publisher =Sports Reference LLC| date = | url =https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/players/s/shaffjo01n.html | accessdate = June 7, 2019}}{{cite web| title = Jack Shaffer | work =Peach Basket Society| publisher =| date = September 3, 2015 | url =https://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2015/09/john-shaffer.html | accessdate = June 7, 2019}} He appeared in six games for the Akron Firestone Non-Skids in the National Basketball League during the 1937–38 season.{{cite web| title = Jack Shaffer Statistics| work =Just Sports Stats| publisher =| date = | url =https://www.justsportsstats.com/basketballstatsindex.php?player_id=shaffja01 | accessdate = June 7, 2019}} A son of Russian immigrants, he grew up in Grand Island, Nebraska and attended the Grand Island campus of Doane University before enrolling at DePaul University. He died of a heart attack in 1963.