John E, Carison, attorney, counsellor and friend to youth, Rotarian
and educator, but to us "Swede", a great athlete of an “ever=victorious"
epoch, went on and made "All American" in life's strenuous competitions

John Carlson came up the hard way, but the honest wy. “The son of
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Kansas City, Keneas, nota di school days, quit this high school because
his father advised him to marry and settle dow early. The father argued
that the income from this lucrative newspaper route was sufficient. le
chose the alternatives

dis dae & Geek entibes th thn tg) eelieds: Moms Without him the
tean was impotent. ‘The firemen of Kansas City, Kenses, waited on John's
- father and persuaded him to allow John to retwm to high sehool to play on

the high school team and incidentally to gradute, In the early days the
five stations tuned ouk fine tasetel) tonne and it we only mtuel that
the firenen would be interested in the sucess of Joln and his high school
team. It was prophetic that a wreath fron the Kansas City, Kansas, firemen

ocoupied the centr) location at the tier shoxing the long and mitual affections ,
The following year "Swede" matriculated at the University of Kensas where
his fame as a baseball player far outshone his brilliance on the gridirotie It
‘ie rather significant of John Carlson that he always was in the center of
‘edn In baseball he chose the position back of the plate, and on the
football field he ehived the roving center positione “No passed balls"
and “no player through his position" were two of his axioms for which he —
indefatigably fought. "Swede" Carlson had no peer on the intercollegiate
gridiron or on the diamond. He mde the "All Time" tean of ashe