19 Facts About Pug Lund

Francis LeRoy "Pug" Lund was an American football player.

Pug Lund played college football as a halfback for Minnesota Golden Gophers and won All-Big Ten Conference honors in both 1933 and in 1934.

Pug Lund won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the conference in 1934 and was a consensus first-team player on the 1934 All-America college football team.

Pug Lund attended Rice Lake High School where he was captain of the track, football, and basketball teams.

Pug Lund enrolled at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1931.

Pug Lund emerged as a star in his first game for the Gophers, setting up the winning touchdown on a pass to Brad Robinson and then rushing ten yards for the score.

Pug Lund was selected as a second-team back on the 1932 All-Big Ten Conference football team.

Pug Lund gained more yards from scrimmage than the entire opposition in Minnesota's eight games.

Pug Lund was selected by both the Associated Press and United Press at a first-team halfback on the All-Big Ten team.

Pug Lund won first-team All-America honors from the AP, the Football Writers Association of America, the Hearst newspaper, and the Central Press Association.

Pug Lund was a consensus pick for both the 1934 All-Big Ten Conference football team and the 1934 All-America college football team.

In February 1935, Pug Lund received the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the most valuable player in the Big Ten Conference.

That same month, Pug Lund's father became seriously ill, and Pug Lund dropped out of the university to return home to Rice Lake.

Pug Lund joined New England Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1943 but his career was interrupted with military service during World War II.

Pug Lund served in the Army as part of an infantry unit in the Philippines in 1945.

Pug Lund was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958.

Pug Lund received the degree 62 years after enrolling at the university.

Pug Lund was inducted in 1991 into the University of Minnesota's "M Club Hall of Fame".

In 1994, Pug Lund died at age 81 of heart failure at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.