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Joe Lundsgaard

  • Class
    1956
  • Induction
    1986
  • Sport(s)
    Football
Joe Lundsgaard was an outstanding football player and remains of the most loyal and dedicated Coyote supporters. A top lineman in the mid 1950s for the Coyotes, he served as captain for head coach Harry Gamage's last Coyote football team in 1955. Lundsgaard, who earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration from USD in 1956, is a farmer-cattle fetter and land developer in Cherokee, Iowa, and is active in several community organizations. Lundsgaard is a member of the USD Foundation Board Lundsgaard along with other Cherokee businessmen have funded a scholarship to USD for a student from Washington High School in Cherokee, IA.
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