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Chosen for his involvement in officiating. His hometown is Uehling where he was basketball all-state in 1949 and 1950 and played on the 1950 Class D runner-up team.. He refereed eight Nebraska high school basketball state tournaments, three National Junior College basketball finals and 1987 Super Bowl XXI between the New York Giants and Denver Broncos. His career included 28 years officiating college basketball, six years in college football and 26 years and 525 games in the NFL