Andy Uram - M Club Hall of Fame - University of Minnesota Athletics

Upcoming Events

Schedule

Feb 5

6:00 PM

Women's Basketball

at #10 Iowa

Feb 6

All Day

Women's Track & Field

at Fairgrounds Invitational

Feb 6

12:00 PM

Women's Hockey

at St. Thomas

Andy Uram
Class of 2009
Men's Basketball: 1935-37

Andy Uram was an All-America fullback at the University of Minnesota and a three-year letterwinner. He played on the 1935 and 1936 National Championship teams for the Golden Gophers.

Uram's most famous feat at Minnesota came midway early in the 1936 season in a game against Nebraska. The game was scoreless until he took a lateral from Bud Wilkinson and scored on a 76-yard punt return with 68 seconds to play. Minnesota won, 7-0, en route to a 7-1 season and a national title.

Uram earned All-America honors from the Associated Press in 1937. He was an All-Big Ten honoree in the 1936 season.

Uram was a Minneapolis native, playing his prep football at Marshall High School.

Uram went on to play six seasons for the Green Bay Packers. He played for the Packers from 1938 to 1943 and was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame in 1973.

Uram shared a National Football League record for the longest touchdown run - 97 yards against the Chicago Cardinals in 1939 - until Tony Dorsett of the Dallas Cowboys broke it with a 99-yard run in 1982 against the Minnesota Vikings.