Hall of Fame
Sidney S. Shogren lettered in football each of the four years he played on the Macalester College team. For three years, he received recognition as an All-State Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tackle. In 1941 he was also honored as a Regional Little All-American tackle. Playing both offense and defense, he helped take the 1939 team to a second-place finish in the conference, the best the team had done since 1925. During the 1940 season, the team also finished second.
Shogren was a member of the track team in 1939, competing in both the shot put and discus. In 1940 he set a new record in discus, one that stood until 1947. He earned three letters in track.
Shogren and several fellow athletes were responsible for reactivating the on-campus Scots Club in 1939. Shogren was vice president of the group in 1939, and president in 1940.
After graduation from Macalester, Shogren received offers to play professional football with both the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles. But because the was was on, Shogren entered the U.S. Navy and attended Midshipmen School at Columbia University. Commissioned an ensign, he volunteered for duty in the South Pacific as a skipper of a P.T. boat. He returned to the United States to teach naval ordnance and gunnery at Fort Schuyler Midshipmen School in New York.
After completing his naval service, Shogren returned to Minnesota. He sold real estate for a brief period and then began teaching math and coaching football and track at North Saint Paul High School. He also became athletic director of the school. During that time he became active in the M Club.
From 1950 until his retirement in 1981, he was employed by 3M Company, first as a sales branch-office manager and finally as director of equal-employment opportunity for the entire domestic corporation. Shogren and his wife, Doris, who have two children, live in Lake Elmo.
