Lavern "Vern" Corbin was an American

United States

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 basketball

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 player who was an NCAA All-American

NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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 as a senior

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 at Cal in 1929

1929 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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. A center

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, Corbin was a three-time All-Pacific Coast Conference

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 selection in his only 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. In high school, Corbin was a heralded player at Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California

Piedmont, California

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