Macalester College Athletics

Harlan Anderson is the sixth member of a very talented Class of 1940 to be inducted into the Macalester Athletic Hall of Fame, joining classmates Richard Butler, Myrvin DeLapp, Robert Gardner, H. Ransom Goins and Shirley Held.  Anderson played football in the fall, helping turn the program from a second division team to a title contender as a standout blocking back and linebacker.  

He excelled the most in the winter as a star center for Macalester's powerhouse hockey teams of the late 1930s.  Anderson and the Scots claimed MIAC championships three times in four years, twice under coach George Clausen and one for coach D.C. Primrose.  He was the capain of the '39 team and was selected to the Associated Press all-state team after leading Macalester to its seventh MIAC hockey crown in 10 years.  Anderson organized the first Scots Club on campus.  

Following a career in the Navy during World War II which saw combat in the North Atlantic, Sicily and the Pacific, he entered the engineering profession and worked for 25 years as an engineer for Univac.

Bio written at the time of induction.