Photograph

2019.4448.00058

1956 Glenwood Lakers Football Team last game. Glenwood, Minnesota
Title
1956 Glenwood Lakers Football Team last game. Glenwood, Minnesota
Creation Date
November 1 1956

Dimensions

10cm H x 12.5cm W

Description
These 12 members of the Glenwood high school football team close out their grid careers Friday night (tomorrow) when the Lakers play Sauk Centre on the Main Streeter's gridiron. In the front row, left to right: Pete Melby, Chuck Thompson, Bob McCrory, Ralph Martin, Ben Motis and Tom Danielson. Back row, left to right: Coach Howie Kortmeyer, Paul Quitney (injured during the season), Ronald Bjokne, Peter A. Gilbertson, Paul Winter, Jim Jacobs and Billy Anderson. Not pictured is Larry Torguson, who was injured in the Montevideo game. A win for the Lakers would give them fifth place in the West Central Conference. 

4x5 black and white Film Negative From the Pope County Tribune. 
Unpublished.

 

Related People and Organizations
Pope County Tribune
Melby, Peter Bernt "Pete"
Thompson, Charles Douglas "Chuck"
Martin, Ralph Franklin Jr.
Motis, Benedict D. "Ben" (1939-2012)
Danielson, Thomas C. "Tom"
Kortmeyer, Howard "Howie"
Quitney, Paul G.
Bjokne, Ronald Melvin
Winter, Paul R.
Jacobs, Jim H. "Jimmie"
Anderson, Harold William "Billy"
Torguson, Larry A.
McCrory, Robert E. "Bob"
Glenwood High School
Gilbertson, Peter Albert
Geographic Notes
Glenwood, Minnesota
Geographic Names
Glenwood, Pope, Minnesota, United States, NA [45.65024,-95.38976] [id:5028087]

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