Adam Obrubański (18 December 1892 – April 1940)He does not appear in their lists of Olympians who died as a result of war or who were killed in the Katyn massacre. was a Polish

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player and official, also a graduate of

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’s renowned

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. Born in Kopychyntsi,

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in 1892, he was a student at the Faculty of Philosophy and later at the Faculty of Law. In the years 1914–1922 he served in the Austrian and later the

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. Then, he worked as a reporter for Kraków's Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny daily. In 1932 he took his PhD in law at Jagiellonian University. After retiring from an active football career (Obrubański represented Wisła Kraków and ŁKS Łódź), he became an influential official of the

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and manager of the Poland national team as well as a referee. He was the first Pole to achieve the status of an international football referee. Obrubański officiated in the Olympic Football Tournament in 1924.
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some time at Katyn in April 1940, aged 47, murdered by the

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in the

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* ''Bibliography of the Katyn crime'' by Maria Harz, Warszawa 1993 {{DEFAULTSORT:Obrubanski, Adam 1892 births 1940 deaths People from Kopychyntsi Sportspeople from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Jagiellonian University alumni Polish people of World War I Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Polish Army personnel Polish men's footballers Polish football managers Katyn massacre victims Polish civilians killed in World War II World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union Men's association football forwards ŁKS Łódź players Wisła Kraków players ŁKS Łódź managers Poland national football team managers 20th-century Polish sportsmen