{{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 = | birth_date = 1922 | birth_place = | death_date = March 21, 1953 (aged 31) | death_place = Oakland, California, U.S. | highschool = University (Oakland, California) | college = Stanford (1940–1943) | career_start = | career_end = | highlights = *NCAA champion (1942) }} '''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.<ref name=chapin>{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/42-champs-pull-for-repeat-in-98-3097956.php |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}}</ref><ref name=migdol>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=espn>{{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}}</ref>
==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.<ref name=nyt>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=nyt/> He is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.
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