Michael A. Saxe was an American basketball

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 player and coach.

Saxe was the captain of the basketball team at Philadelphia's Central High School

Central High School (Philadelphia)

Central High School is a public secondary school in the Logan section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Central, the second-oldest continuously public high school in the United States , was founded in 1836 and is a four-year university preparatory magnet school...

 in 1906.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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, where he played from 1908–10, leading the Quakers to a 23-4 record and an Ivy League

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 championship in 1908.

He graduated from Penn Law School in 1910, and served in the U.S. Army

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 during World War I

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He was the first head men's basketball coach at Villanova University

Villanova University

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 from 1920 to 1926, compiling a 64-30 (.681) record overall. His best season was 1925, when the team finished 10-1. He later coached at La Salle University

La Salle University

La Salle University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, the school was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. As of 2008 the school has approximately 7,554...

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Saxe died of a heart attack at his home in Philadelphia in 1955.