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Page 18 THE DAILY TIMES Salisbury, Md. Friday, July 9, 1993 NATION Former Ail-American, 80, finally graduates it was 1992 and he didn't have the degree. At first, the commencement wasn't so much emotional as it was great fun, Lund said. He marched with his classmates. He waved to his family members, his wife and kids and grandkids.

"I was really enjoying myself," Lund said. "Then they say, "Let's sing one verse of "God Bless We all are singing and be gol-darned if that didn't get me feeling really emotional It was all sweeter than I expected it to be." wasn't going to tell him that back in Rice Lake they called me So I said, No, I don't have a About that time, Lund said, someone yelled out, "Call him Pug," and when a picture of Lund appeared a few days later, the caption said, "Pug Lund." It would become a name known coast-to-coast. Pug Lund became a star for a team that became the most-dominant team in the nation by 1934. He would become an Ail-American, one of the best-known a sportswriter named Bernie Swanson, of the Minneapolis Journal, showed up to do a feature story on some of the promising freshmen players, the coach selected Lund as one of the players for Swanson to talk with. "I guess I've told this story a thousand times," said Lund.

"My picture was taken and Swanson asks me, "What's your I say, He says, 'Francis. God, Francis is a helluva name for a football player. Don't you have a Well, I sure players in a nation that was in love with college football. In the biggest game a University of Minnesota team ever played against the University of Pittsburgh in 1934 it was Pug Lund who took a lateral and then threw the game-winning touchdown pass to Robert Tenner in the fourth quarter. The win over Pitt, the power of the East, propelled the Gophers to an undefeated national championship season.

At the conclusion of that glorious season, Lund played in a college all-star game in San Francisco, but rejected all offers to turn pro. Besides, when the college all-star game was over, he learned his father was dying and that he was needed at home. He returned to Rice Lake, planning someday to get his degree. Life got in the way of the plan. His father died.

Pug Lund was offered a job in the Twin Cities with the Ford Motor Co. Then came marriage and military service and family and a new career in insurance, and before the old football star knew it, 0 LLKSTTDOK FEDDERS audi It Ml NORTH AMERICA. 1 1 III at ft I Bhr I fciiriii fiiil IrtiiAi tinirfi Hi iVi BM iKWiifi' li-iiiii Whirlpool I II By DOUG GROW Minneapolis-St Paul Star Tribune For Scrippt Howard New Service Pug Lund, who has been taking some hard hits of late, was hospitalized a few months back. "Understand you were a football player," a nurse said to Lund. That's right," Lund replied.

"Where'd you play?" the nurse asked. "At the University of Minnesota," Lund replied. "Did you graduate?" the nurse asked. A smile crossed Lund's face. "Yes," he said.

"Yes, I've graduated." Ah, yes. Six decades after leaving the university, the 80-year-old Lund finally could say he was a graduate. He completed the paperwork for his degree in education in December, and donned cap and gown and marched in commencement exercises this spring. When buddies ask Lund, an All-America football player at the University of Minnesota in the 1930s, what took so long, the old halfback laughs and says things like, "Fm a slow learner," or, "I took the hard courses the real hard courses." What he doesn't talk about often is how nice that diploma feels. Understand that the lack of a degree had never stopped Lund from accomplishing what he set out to accomplish.

He was successful enough in the insurance business to house his family in a comfortable home in Edina, Minn. He made enough money to have a membership at prestigious Interlachen Country Club. Lack of a degree never even prevented him from being active in all sorts of University of Minnesota clubs. Over the years, he's headed alumni organizations and has been the recipient of alumni awards. "I don't think anybody ever even thought of asking if I had a degree," he "and it really didn't bother me much, either.

It was just one of those things that keeps nagging at you. And so, finally, it happened. Working with Catherine Haugen at the university's School of Education, Lund discovered that courses he had taken at an accredited college while establishing himself in the insurance business could be used for credits at the university. She helped him fit the courses to the holes in his academic record and finally, 62 years after entering the university, it was graduation day. "When I started looking at getting the degree last summer," Lund said, "I had said I didn't care to have this get out.

Let's do it quietly. But then I got this card in the mail about where to go to be fitted for a cap and gown. I couldn't resist. She (Haugen) told me the word was out, that the dean wanted to mention it at the ceremony. I said that was OK" At commencement exercises, it was mentioned that Francis Lund, who had started school in 1931, was graduating.

There was a warm ovation when the old man walked across the stage, but few knew what an extraordinary student Francis Lund had been in the 1930s. "After the graduation," said Haugen, "some faculty people came up to me and said, 'Is Francis Lund the Pug I said, "ies, that's Pug But I'm really just beginning to understand how special he is." Francis Lund showed up at University of Minnesota in the fall of 1931. Though he'd been shown around the campus by a coach named Biggie Munn the previous spring, the kid from Rice Lake, never had been recruited to play football. But early on, it was apparent the Lund kid was special. When Public transportation group to meet July 14 SALISBURY The Wicomico County Citizen's Public Transportation Advisory Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 14, in Room 301 of the Government Office Building, Route 50 and Division Street, Salisbury.

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