height_ft death_date statvalue nationality birth_date career_start years death_place draft_year team draft_pick image college stats_league name statlabel weight_lb birth_place draft_team career_end position draft_round height_in article_title
6 23 june 1978 1,152 -rrb- 75 -lrb- 0.7 apg -rrb- -lrb- 11.3 ppg -rrb- 701 -lrb- 6.9 rpg american october 6 , 1939 1961 1961 -- 1962 1962 -- 1963 switzerland 1961 hawaii chiefs chicago majors 23 jeff cohen -lrb- basketball -rrb- . jpg william & mary -lrb- 1958 -- 1961 -rrb- abl jeff cohen points rebounds assists 225 kenosha , wisconsin chicago packers 1963 power forward 2 7 jeff cohen -lrb- basketball -rrb-

jeff cohen -lrb- basketball -rrb-

jeffrey maxwell cohen -lrb- october 6 , 1939 -- june 23 , 1978 -rrb- was an all-american basketball player at the college of william & mary in williamsburg , virginia during his senior season in 1960-61 .
he was selected as the 14th pick in the second round -lrb- 23rd overall -rrb- of the 1961 nba draft by the chicago packers -lrb- now the washington wizards -rrb- .
at william & mary , cohen played his way into the ncaa record books .
he is the 9th all-time leading rebounder in the pre-1973 college basketball era , having grabbed 1,679 boards .
he is one of very few men 's basketball players in ncaa history to score 2,000 points and grab 1,000 rebounds during a collegiate career .
at the time of his graduation , he was only one of 10 players to ever accomplish that feat .
cohen 's 2,003 career points rank third all-time at william & mary .
he was a three-time all-southern conference selection from 1959 -- 61 , and in 1990 he had his jersey number -lrb- # 52 -rrb- retired posthumously .
additionally , jeff set a w&m single game scoring record of 49 points on february 25 , 1961 .
he was a member of the sigma nu fraternity .
despite being drafted to the nba , jeff was never officially signed by any team .
he spent some time playing professionally in the now-defunct american basketball league from 1961-1963 .
as a member of the hawaii chiefs , he averaged 10.8 points , 6.6 rebounds and 0.6 assists per game for the 1961-62 season .
the following season , cohen averaged 12.5 points , 8.0 rebounds and 1.2 assists while playing for the chicago majors .
