Luther College

• Four year letter winner in football and basketball and two in baseball
• Member of undefeated Iowa Conference championship football team - 1935
• Served as team captain for basketball team his senior year
• Named to All-Iowa Conference and Des Moines Register’s All-State basketball teams - 1938
• He was the leading scorer on Luther’s 1937 Iowa Conference championship team
• Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, 1941-46 in the Pacific Theatre in World War II