Erling Platou - M Club Hall of Fame - University of Minnesota Athletics

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Oct 19

Men's Golf

vs Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational

Oct 19

2:00 PM

Soccer

at Oregon

Oct 19

2:00 PM

Women's Hockey

vs Ohio State

Erling Platou
Men’s Basketball, 1915-16, 1919-20
HOF Class of 2002

Erling Platou, a star of the Gopher hardwood in the years before World War I, after the War, in 1919, led his team to an undefeated season in which they were declared Big Ten and Helms Foundation national champions.

Team captain, Platou earned All-American honors and the Big Ten Outstanding Student Athlete Award that year.

Platou graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1924 and became a clinical professor of pediatrics there. He later founded Southwest Pediatrics Associates, one of the largest pediatric clinics in Minnesota, and founded and was first chairman of the Minnesota Medical Foundation.