Ed Voss was an American

United States

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 basketball

Basketball

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 player.

College basketball career

A 6 foot center

Center (basketball)

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 from University High School

University High School (Oakland, California)

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 in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

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, Voss played collegiately for Stanford University

Stanford University

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. As the team's starting center, he helped Stanford to the 1942 NCAA Championship

1942 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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, in which he played all 40 minutes and scored 13 points.

After college

Following his college career, Voss played for the Oakland Bittners of the Amateur Athletic Union

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, and was a member of the Bittners' 1949 AAU championship team. Married with three children, he died of polio

Poliomyelitis

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 at the age of 31, a month after his 7-year-old son also succumbed to the disease. He is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.