Leo Weinstein, a Stanford University professor who played on and coached the Stanford soccer team and later was a soccer journalist for such publications as Soccer America, died on Monday at John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif., from cancer. He would have been 87 on May 15.
Weinstein was Professor Emeritus of French at Stanford. He coached the Stanford men’s soccer team for three years (1951-53). He had a record of 18-9-5.
A private internment will take place on May 12 in a National Cemetery with Honor Guard acknowledging Weinstein’s service to the country in World War II. A service at the Stanford University Chapel and a Celebration of Life will take place on June 2.
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