Ed Voss


Ed Voss was an American basketball player.

College basketball career

A center from University High School in Oakland, California, Voss played collegiately for Stanford University. As the team's starting center, he helped Stanford to the 1942 NCAA Division I men's [basketball tournament|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 Amateur Athletic Union, and was a member of the Bittners' 1949 AAU championship team. Married with three children, he died of polio at the age of 31, a month after his 7-year-old son also succumbed to the disease. He is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.