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Married@SiebertField said:
Thank you for posting. On the way to winning the 1962 state basketball tournament, St. Louis Park played Danube and Bob Bruggers in the semi-finals. Danube was the sentimental favorite of the field and the Williams Arena crowd—the Edgerton of the ‘62 tourney. Bruggers scores 36 points but uncharacteristically misses a number of free throws. The Orioles win a close game. The drama and romance of the one class tournament…
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Crazy story. Tiny Danube v St Louis Park! I was a youngun when in 1963 I saw Marshall beat Cloquet in the State Championship. Never wll forget Meissner missing the medium jumpshot as time expired. Heartbreaker. One class! Packed Arena! Passions running wild!
 

Eastside Forever said:
Crazy story. Tiny Danube v St Louis Park! I was a youngun when in 1963 I saw Marshall beat Cloquet in the State Championship. Never wll forget Meissner missing the medium jumpshot as time expired. Heartbreaker. One class! Packed Arena! Passions running wild!
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Must have been something special: southwest vs. northeast—thrilling. The Lake Conference had quite the run. St. Louis Park was the one-off champion roughly half way between the Butsy Maetzold (sp?) Hopkins teams and the Edina three-peat. The section with some of the Minneapolis schools was a mini state tournament every year. Lloyd Holm was the ‘62 SLP coach—he won state Championships previously at Red Wing and Duluth Denfeld, IIRC. Augie Schmidt succeeded him and coached SLP to three consecutive state tournaments in the Jim Petersen (78-80) years. Augie played in the state tournament for Willmar and for good measure coached the undefeated ‘73 SLP soccer team to the mythical state championship.
 

There's no college football this Saturday, but the season returns in 82 days!

Ben Utecht, 2001 Second Team All Big Ten, 2003 First Team All Big Ten
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Ernie Wheelwright, 2004 All Big Ten Honorable Mention
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Drew Wolitarsky, 2016 Third Team All Big Ten
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Demetrius Douglas, 2018 All Big Ten Honorable Mention
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Monday brings us to 80 days away!

John Campbell, 1960 National Champion, 1962 First Team All Big Ten
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Omar Douglas, 1993 Second Team All Big Ten
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Jack Simmons
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Xzavian Brandon
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Devin Crawford-Tufts
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Jake Paulson
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Nate Wozniak
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We're 78 days out!

Bobby Bell, 1960 National Champion, 1961 First Team All Big Ten, 1961 All American, 1962 First Team All Big Ten, 1962 All American, 1962 Lineman of the Year, 1962 Outland Trophy Winner, College Football Hall of Famer
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Garrison Wright
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Ben Lauer
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Daniel Faalele, 2018 All Big Ten Honorable Mention, 2019 All Big Ten Honorable Mention, 2021 First Team All Big Ten
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Remember this Blaise Andries picture the next time you want to complain about our opponent getting away with holding 😄

And it also looks like a false start on Quinn Carroll in his photo 😬
 




Thanks for including those Eastside. Here are a few more of both legends.

Milt Sunde, 1960 National Champion
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Ed Widseth, 1934 All First Team All Big Ten, 1934 All American, 1934 National Champion, 1935 First Team All Big Ten, 1935 All American, 1935 National Champion, 1936 First Team All Big Ten, 1936 All American, 1936 National Champion, College Football Hall of Famer
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Jalen Myrick intercepted a ball and scored a touchdown for the Gophers in September 2014 (against Middle Tennesee State). Credit: Star Tribune June 21, 2026.

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Myrick also had a 103-yard kickoff return for a TD against Northwestern later in that same season.

Good times.
 

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