Hall of Fame
• Three-year letter winner in football
• Four-year letter winner in basketball
• Member of Iowa Conference championship basketball team - 1949
• Member of National AAU Tournament team - 1949
• All-Conference selection - 1949
• Served in Army Air Force Cadet Program - 1944-46
• Successful sporting goods salesman, owner of O-J Sporting Goods Company, Park Ridge, Ill.