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Lavern Corbin (died June 10, 1965) was an American
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player who was an
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as a senior at Cal in
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, 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. In high school, Corbin was a heralded player at Piedmont High School in
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. Corbin died of cancer on June 10, 1965, in
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