Ed Voss (1922 – March 21, 1953) was an American

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player.

College basketball career

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from University High School in

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, Voss played collegiately for

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

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

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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

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