Luther College

• Four-year letter winner in football
• Member of the 1938 Iowa Conference Championship team
• Four-year letter winner in baseball as catcher
• Served as captain of team in his senior year
• Signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox and played two years of minor league baseball
• Letter winner in track, competing in the javelin event
• Served in the U.S. Air Force with the rank of lieutenant during World War II as a flight instructor and bomber pilot - 1941-45