Wahl, Kermit

Born in Columbia, S.D. Played youth baseball in Columbia and Aberdeen. 1946 Indiana University grad. Played pro baseball for 11 seasons, including four-plus years (1944-45, `47, `50-51) in the major leagues with Cincinnati, the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns. His best season was 1950, when he hit .257 in 89 games for Philadelphia. His […]

Manders, Clarence “Pug”

Milbank High School. Drake University. Fullback-linebacker played seven seasons in the NFL (1939-44 with Brooklyn, 1945 with Boston). Was All-Pro in 1941, when he led the league in rushing (486 yards on 111 carries) while playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Two other times he rushed for more than 400 yards (1939, 482, and 1944, 430). […]

Collin (Cornie), Conrad

The Huron High and 1934 Creighton University grad captained both the basketball and football teams at Creighton (the only CU athlete to captain two sports at the same time). In 1933, he was an All-America selection in basketball after leading the Missouri Valley Conference in scoring (he averaged 9.5 points a game for all games […]