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Jerome Jerry Nemer (January 7 1912 – December 7 1980) was an American basketball player at the University of Southern California (USC) who became the first Jew to captain a major athletic team at the school. Nemer had enrolled at USC in the fall of 1929 to play for the basketball and baseball teams but Sam Barry who coached both sports felt that the basketball team needed more help so Nemer quit baseball to focus on basketball.