Sidney Silodor (November 13, 1906 – August 4, 1963) was an American bridge player. Silodor was a World Champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl in 1950. Silodor is currently 6th on the all-time list of North American Bridge Championships wins with 34. Silodor was a lawyer from Havertown, Pennsylvania.
Silodor was named to its hall of fame by The Bridge World in 1966, which brought the number of members to nine, and was made a founding member of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.
Silodor was born in Newark, New Jersey to Charles and Pauline Silodor, Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. He was married to Elizabeth Collins. He died of brain cancer at Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital in 1963.
ACBL Hall of Fame, 1966
Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1963
Bermuda Bowl (1) 1950
North American Bridge Championships (34)
Master Individual (1) 1951
von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1946
Rockwell Mixed Pairs (3) 1951, 1955, 1956
Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1963
Hilliard Mixed Pairs (2) 1940, 1944
Fall National Open Pairs (2) 1941, 1946
Vanderbilt (8) 1944, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960
Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1952, 1956, 1961
Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1941, 1943, 1944, 1954
Reisinger (6) 1942, 1943, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1961
Spingold (3) 1943, 1951, 1957
Bermuda Bowl (2) 1958, 1961
North American Bridge Championships
von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (2) 1943, 1956
Wernher Open Pairs (3) 1941, 1950, 1958
Vanderbilt (1) 1953
Spingold (1) 1936
Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1946, 1959, 1963
Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1946, 1952, 1960, 1962
Reisinger (3) 1944, 1948, 1951
Spingold (5) 1947, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1961
Silodor is sometimes credited with two books, "Silodor Says" and "According to Silodor".
Silodor Says: the grand slam of bridge literature (New York: Pageant Press, 1952), 240 pp., OCLC 2556615
Contract bridge: According to Silodor and Tierney, Silodor and John A. Tierney (Chestnut Hill, MA: Stanley–Allan Co., 1961), 442 pp., OCLC 5691240
Complete Book of Duplicate Bridge, Norman Kay, Fred Karpin, and Silodor (G. P. Putnam, 1965), 496 pp., LCCN 65-22224
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