Basketball team with Paul and Babe statues, 1969

Members of a basketball team pose with Paul and Babe in Bemidji, March 16, 1969. Original caption: “Lumberjack players visited Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox after winning the Region Eight basketball championship. The players (left to right): Jerry Oelrich, Tony Burke, Tom Hill, Wayne Olson, Greg Beaumont, Jimmy Yost, Al Lyseng, Dwight Degerman, Craig Groslie, Dave Rose and Gary Vogel. Squad member Bill Hubbell was not in the photo.” From the folder “Bemidji” in box 145 of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Edina newspaper photographs collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.