{{short description|American basketball player}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Vern Corbin | image = Vern Corbin.jpeg | image_size = | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 2 | weight_lb = 180 | nationality = American | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = June 10, 1965 (aged 58) | death_place = Los Angeles, California | highschool = Piedmont (Piedmont, California) | college = California (1926–1929) | career_start = | career_end = | career_position = Center | career_number = | highlights = * Consensus All-American (1929) * All-Pacific Coast Conference (1929) * California Mr. Basketball (1924) }} '''Lavern Corbin''' (died June 10, 1965) was an American basketball player who was an NCAA All-American as a senior at Cal in 1929. A center, Corbin played three seasons of college basketball between 1926–27 and 1928–29. Cal won conference titles every one of those years, and he twice led the league in scoring. He was an All-Pacific Coast Conference selection in 1929.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pac-12 Conference 2011–12 Men's Basketball Media Guide |page=118 |publisher=Pac-12 Conference |year=2011 |url=http://catalog.e-digitaleditions.com/issue/45931 |access-date=December 19, 2014}}</ref> In high school, Corbin was a heralded player at Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California.
Corbin died of cancer on June 10, 1965, in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bear cage great Vern Corbin dies|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68439773/oakland-tribune/ |newspaper= Oakland Tribune|date=June 10, 1965|page=5|via =Newspapers.com|access-date = January 24, 2021}} {{Open access}}</ref>
==References== ;General *{{Cite web| title = Pac-10 Annual Statistical Leaders| publisher = sportsstats.com| url = http://www.sportsstats.com/bball/otherconfs/Pac10/annual.leaders| access-date =February 3, 2011}} *{{Cite web| title = Player Bio: Vern Corbin| publisher = University of California| url = http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/corbin_vern00.html| access-date = February 3, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120404075330/http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/corbin_vern00.html| archive-date = April 4, 2012| url-status = dead| df = mdy-all}} *{{Cite web | last = Storm | first = Pamela | author2 = Filion, Ron | title = Piedmont High School: Class of Fall, 1924 | publisher = Alameda County Genealogy | year = 2006 | url = http://www.sfgenealogy.com/alameda/schools/aphsf24.htm | access-date = February 3, 2011 | archive-date = January 20, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100120230428/http://www.sfgenealogy.com/alameda/schools/aphsf24.htm | url-status = dead }} ;Specific {{reflist}}
{{1929 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans}}
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