Across
- 1. brand of Dad’s first car
- 2. position Dad played on college basketball team
- 4. in 1944, he was elected to a fourth term as U.S. President
- 6. the nationally ranked #1 football team for 1961
- 8. Gophers opponent in the 1961 Rose Bowl game that Dad attended
- 10. the Minnesotan native who made the 1st nonstop flight from NY to Paris in 1927
- 13. invented in 1944 to protect soldiers from sunburn
- 14. Dad’s hometown
- 16. Dad sold this for his first job after college
- 17. famous Scottish golf course Dad played in 1988
- 19. career change in 1986
- 21. name of the Canadian lake Dad fished (hint- same as Mom’s high school alma mater)
- 22. number of years between holes-in-one
- 23. branch of military Dad served in for WWII
- 25. U.S. president in 1927
- 28. 1944 NCAA Football champions
- 29. hit Dad in the head, requiring stitches, while spectating the state boy’s bb tournament
- 30. Dad’s Grandpa Loomis’s name
- 31. the team won the World Series in 1987 and 1991
Down
- 1. Dad’s middle name
- 2. 1944 Academy Award Best Picture (hint- As Time Goes By)
- 3. age when Dad enlisted the military
- 5. Minneapolis team that won the 1953 NBA Championship
- 7. Dad’s favorite holiday seafood
- 9. sport Dad refereed for many years
- 11. the college Dad attended
- 12. Dad’s dad’s middle name
- 15. the number of Vikings appearances in Super Bowl games
- 18. year of Dad’s first hole-in-one
- 20. the name of the South Pacific island where Dad was stationed during WWII
- 24. Dad’s college friend who was U.S. VP under President Carter
- 26. favorite flavor of Dad’s cream pie
- 27. the only language Dad’s mom (Eleonora) spoke until she was 19
