Lance Olssen was an All-City lineman at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, and All-Big Ten defensive tackle at Purdue, and played two seasons for the National Football League’s San Francisco 49ers, and two more for the Edmonton Eskimos in the Canadian Football League.
Olssen started 28 straight games on Purdue teams that went 24-6-1, won a Big Ten championship and shared another, and beat Southern Cal 14-13 in the 1967 Rose Bowl; and was a 1967 Academic All-American.
Class of 2013