Hall of Fame
• Won nine letters competing in baseball, basketball, and football
• Known as one of Luther’s all-time pitching greats
• As a junior he averaged 16.5 strikeouts in six complete game - 1922
• Twice this same year he sent 19 batters back to the bench because “they couldn’t see’em”
• As a senior he won eight games and tied one with a strikeout average of 12 per game.
• That same year, sharing the pitching duties with Ossie Orwell, Luther defeated Iowa State Teachers 15-0, pitching the first no-hit, no-run game on Luther’s diamond since 1909
• Summer after his graduation he had a 31-win season for Eldora, Iowa
• Taught and coached in high school before becoming an enterprising farmer on the ancestral farm in Ridgeway, Iowa
