University of North Dakota Athletics

  A highlight of the 1937 season was when Carl (Cully) Ekstrom won the National Collegiate Featherweight Championship by defeating the national champion in Sacramento, Cal . He and Carlyle Loverud were appointed by C.A. (Jack) West as coaches in the 1937-39 seasons when Professor Russell resigned to devote full time to duties as Head of the English Department.. In February of 1938 he withdrew from school, along with a couple other members of the team, and the team was forced to cancel some of their trips. But before all of this in the first semester he and a few others won State Golden Glove Titles in Bismarck. The last season of boxing at UND Ekstrom went to the National Collegiate Tournament to regain his featherweight title he won two years earlier, but was decisioned by another coach.