{{short description|American hardball squash player (1938–2022)}} '''Samuel P. Howe III''' (1938 – September 15, 2022)<ref>[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/inquirer/name/samuel-howe-obituary?id=36539373 Samuel Howe]</ref> was an American hardball squash player. He was one of the leading squash players in the United States in the 1960s.
Howe won the US national singles title twice in 1962 and 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.squashmagazine.com/vcm/squashmagazine/FEATURES/State_of_Game/USSRATimeline.html|title=History of the USSRA: A Timeline|last=Zug|first=James|accessdate=2 March 2010}}</ref> He also won six national doubles titles – three partnering Bill Danforth (1963, 1964 and 1967), and three partnering his younger brother Ralph Howe (1969, 1970 and 1971).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.squashtalk.com/profiles/svehslage1.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020604030836/http://www.squashtalk.com/profiles/svehslage1.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 4, 2002|title=Stephen T. Vehslage, Former National Champion, 12/10/39 - 5/5/02|last=Dinerman|first=Rob|date=May 2002|publisher=Squashtalk.com|accessdate=2 March 2010}}</ref>
Howe was inducted into the United States Squash Racquets Association Hall of Fame in 2002. He was also inducted in the Men’s College Squash Hall of Fame in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collegesquashassociation.com/awards/mens-awards/hall-of-fame/|title=Hall of Fame (M)|accessdate=2 March 2010|archive-date=5 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305130330/http://collegesquashassociation.com/awards/mens-awards/hall-of-fame/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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