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Virgil Goertzen HOF

Virgil Goertzen

  • Class
    1954
  • Induction
    1982
  • Sport(s)
    Football, Men's Basketball
Outstanding football and basketball player at MSU...Four-year offensive and defensive end for football...Four-year basketball player...Served as team captain...All-Conference guard was the "floor general" of Hall of Famer Jim Witham's Minnesota Small College Conference championship basketball team in 1953-54 ...Graduate assistant in football and basketball in 1954-55 and was freshman basketball coach...Head coach of basketball at Buffalo Center, Iowa in 1955-56 and New Ulm from 1956-60...Son, James, played basketball at MSU from 1978-82 for coach Lloyd "Butch" Raymond...Inducted into the Mountain Lake High School Hall of Fame in 2009.
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