# Ed Voss

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{{short description|American basketball player (1922–1953)}}
{{for|American botanist|Edward Groesbeck Voss}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Ed Voss
| position = [Center](/source/Center_(basketball))
| 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](/source/Oakland%2C_California), U.S.
| highschool = [University](/source/University_High_School_(Oakland%2C_California)) (Oakland, California)
| college = [Stanford](/source/Stanford_Cardinal_men's_basketball) (1940–1943)
| career_start = 
| career_end = 
| highlights = 
*[NCAA champion](/source/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_men's_basketball_champions) ([1942](/source/1942_NCAA_basketball_tournament))
}}
'''Ed Voss''' (1922 – March 21, 1953) was an American [basketball](/source/basketball) player.

==College basketball career==
A {{convert|6|ft|5.5|in|cm|0|abbr=on}} [center](/source/center_(basketball)) from [University High School](/source/University_High_School_(Oakland%2C_California)) in [Oakland, California](/source/Oakland%2C_California), Voss played collegiately for [Stanford University](/source/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](/source/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](/source/1942_NCAA_Division_I_men's_basketball_tournament), 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](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times)
}}</ref> Married with three children, he died of [polio](/source/poliomyelitis) 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](/source/Stanford_Cardinal).

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{1942 Stanford Indians men's basketball navbox}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Voss, Ed}}
Category:1922 births
Category:1953 deaths
Category:Amateur Athletic Union men's basketball players
Category:Basketball players from Oakland, California
Category:Centers (basketball)
Category:Deaths from polio in the United States
Category:Stanford Cardinal men's basketball players
Category:American men's basketball players
{{1920s-US-basketball-bio-stub}}

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