Sidney Silodor (November 13, 1906 – August 4, 1963) was an American

bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...

player. Silodor was a World Champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl in 1950. Silodor is currently 6th on the all-time list of

North American Bridge Championships North American Bridge Championships (NABC) are three annual bridge tournaments sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). The "Spring", "Summer", and "Fall" NABCs are usually scheduled in March, July, and November for about eleven da ...

wins with 34. Silodor was a lawyer from

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. Silodor was named to its hall of fame by ''

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'' in 1966, which brought the number of members to nine, and was made a founding member of the

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in 1995. Silodor was born in

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. He was married to Elizabeth Collins. He died of brain cancer at Philadelphia's

Temple University Hospital Temple University Hospital (TUH) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an academic medical center in the United States which is a part of the healthcare network Temple Health. It is the chief clinical training site for the Temple University School of ...

in 1963.

Bridge accomplishments

Honors

* ACBL Hall of Fame, 1966"Induction by Year"
''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.

Awards

Mott-Smith Trophy The Mott-Smith Trophy, named for writer and cryptographer Geoffrey Mott-Smith, is awarded to the player with the best overall individual performance in the Spring Nationals, the spring event of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North Amer ...

(1) 1963

Wins

Bermuda Bowl The Bermuda Bowl is a biennial contract bridge world championship for national . It is contested every odd-numbered year under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), alongside the Venice Cup (women), the d'Orsi Senior Bowl and the Wuh ...

(1) 1950 *

(34) **

Master Individual The Master Individual national bridge championship was held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC); it was held from 1931 until 1960 after which it was discontinued. Trophy The event was co ...

(1) 1951 **

von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs The Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). Usually called simply the "Life Master Pairs" or "LM Pairs", this is a six-ses ...

(1) 1946 **

Rockwell Mixed Pairs The Rockwell Mixed Pairs is a national bridge championship held regularly at the Spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Rockwell Trophy, donated by Helen Rockwell in 1946, is presented to the w ...

(3) 1951, 1955, 1956 **

Silodor Open Pairs The Silodor Open Pairs national bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Silodor Open Pairs is a four session matchpoint (MP) pairs event with two qualifying ...

(1) 1963 **

Hilliard Mixed Pairs The Hilliard Mixed Pairs national bridge championship was last held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). History This was the original national mixed pairs event. It was contested at the ...

(2) 1940, 1944 **

Fall National Open Pairs The National Open Pairs was the first national bridge championship for open pairs and was held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC) as a four-session matchpoint (MP) pairs event. History In ...

(2) 1941, 1946 ** Vanderbilt (8) 1944, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960 **

Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams The Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams national bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championships, North American Bridge Championship (NABC). It is an open four session board-a-match event ...

(3) 1952, 1956, 1961 **

Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match The Mixed Board-a-Match Teams is a bridge competition held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). From 2010 the event is officially the Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match Teams, as it is contested ...

(4) 1941, 1943, 1944, 1954 **

Reisinger The Reisinger national bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Reisinger is a board-a-match event. History The event is contested for the Reisinger Trophy ( ...

(6) 1942, 1943, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1961 **

Spingold The Spingold national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Spingold is a knock-out team event that attracts the top contract bridge players in the world. T ...

(3) 1943, 1951, 1957

Runners-up

(2) 1958, 1961 *

(2) 1943, 1956 **

Wernher Open Pairs The Wernher Open Pairs national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). Typically starting on the Tuesday of the NABC, the Wernher Open Pairs is a four session ma ...

(3) 1941, 1950, 1958 ** Vanderbilt (1) 1953 **

(1) 1936 **

(3) 1946, 1959, 1963 **

(4) 1946, 1952, 1960, 1962 **

(3) 1944, 1948, 1951 **

(5) 1947, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1961

Books

Silodor is sometimes credited with two books, "Silodor Says" and "According to Silodor". * ''Silodor Says: the grand slam of bridge literature'' (New York: Pageant Press, 1952), 240 pp., * ''Contract bridge: According to Silodor and Tierney'', Silodor and John A. Tierney (Chestnut Hill, MA: Stanley–Allan Co., 1961), 442 pp., * ''Complete Book of Duplicate Bridge'',

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, Fred Karpin, and Silodor ( G. P. Putnam, 1965), 496 pp.,

Articles

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Silodor, Sidney 1906 births 1963 deaths People from Newark, New Jersey 20th-century American Jews American people of Russian-Jewish descent American contract bridge players Bermuda Bowl players Contract bridge writers 20th-century American lawyers People from Delaware County, Pennsylvania Deaths from brain cancer in the United States Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania