University of Minnesota Athletics
David Lindblom - M Club Hall of Fame
David Lindblom
Lifetime Achievement Award
HOF Class of 2002
Rev. David Lindblom played football and baseball for the Golden Gophers in the late 1950s. He was a regular on the baseball team that won the 1956 NCAA Championship, and captain of the team that won the 1958 Big Ten Championship.
He graduated from the University that year, with honors, from the College of Liberal Arts. He then earned a Master of Divinity degree from Luther-Northwestern Theological Seminary in 1961, and went back to the seminary during his career as a pastor to achieve a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1991.
Lindblom was pastor at three Lutheran congregations. He later helped develop the St. Stephen Group Homes for the mentally challenged, and became the Bishop’s Associate in the Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He also became active in his church’s ecumenical affairs ministries, which work to create greater unity and dialogue among Christians, Jews and Muslims.