Coyote Sports Hall of Fame
A football co-captain and starting running back for USD, Larry Hultgren of Ida Grove, Iowa, also played a key role for the men’s basketball team. Hultgren, who received a B.S. in business in 1967 from USD, was a team captain at USD in 1966, lettering three years in football, three years in basketball and two years in golf. In the 1964 Dakota Day football game, he had a then-school-record 85-yard TD run that helped USD upend SDSU, 10-7. He also had a 73-yard punt return against Iowa State Teachers College (Northern Iowa), as USD upset the Panthers. A member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, he was one of the originators of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at USD. When he left Ida Grove High, he was the school’s all-time leading scorer in basketball. He was all-state in 1961 and 1962, rushing for over 3,000 yards, including 303 yards in one high school game. He was the team MVP. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he was selected a Distinguished Naval Graduate from the Office Candidate School Program. He was selected to attend the Naval Judge Advocate General School in 1969-71 and assigned to Chief of Naval Air Training in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 1971, he joined his father in the John Deere business. He is the CEO of Hultgren Implement, Inc., of Ida Grove and Storm Lake, Iowa.
