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12 Facts About Moe Spahn

1.

Morris C Spahn was an American basketball player.

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Moe Spahn attended Bryant High School, in Queens, New York, where he played basketball.

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Moe Spahn was captain of the team in his senior year, and eighth in scoring in the Metropolitan area.

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Moe Spahn finished fifth in the league in scoring in 1936, and fourth in 1937.

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Moe Spahn retired in 1943, and finished as the fifth all-time leading scorer in ABL history.

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Moe Spahn was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.

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Moe Spahn was inducted into the City College of New York Athletic Hall of Fame.

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Moe Spahn later became a camp director and private school headmaster.

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Moe Spahn was headmaster of the Franklin School in Manhattan from 1950 to 1975, director of Camp Winaukee in New Hampshire from 1938 to 1975, and director of the Tripp Lake Camp in Maine from 1958 to 1982.

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Moe Spahn was a president of the Association of Private Camps.

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Moe Spahn's son Steve Spahn was an All-Ivy League basketball player for Dartmouth College in the 1960s.

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Moe Spahn died of heart failure at the New York University Medical Center in Manhattan at the age of 79.