Lowry to the Rescue

 

Lynn Lundin's Bethel Football Squad

In the  1950's, my Uncle Lynn, married to my Aunt Miriam, was the football coach at Bethel College in St. Paul.  Bethel was scheduled to play Wapehton School of Science on a fall Saturday afternoon. Liederbach Bus Service provided the transportation to Wapehton. Liederbach operated a bus service from the Twin Cities to Fargo on Highway 55 for many years using older, cast-off Greyhound buses.  

The Bethel charter blew an engine in Buffalo - stranded. Along comes Phil Wagner, the Lowry cattle trucker, and sees this group of young men standing by the roadside.  He stops and offers them a ride in the back of his cattle truck as far as Lowry. Having faith, they loaded up their gear and climbed into the back of the truck, not knowing how they might traverse the remaining 100 miles. When the team reached Lowry perhaps aromatic, Dave Nelson & Herman Engebretson organized a car caravan and drove them the rest of the way to Wapehton, just in time.  After all that, I hope they won the game. Liederbach graciously dispatched another bus for the return.

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