Drew University Athletics

Many Drew graduates claim that their lives were changed by legendary coach and Professor of Classics Sherman Plato Young, and Bob Lundberg is proud to be among them.  Lundberg, who lettered in five sports at Walden (N.Y.) High School, came to Doc Young's attention through his local Methodist minister.  A few months later, in the fall of 1941, he was a scholarship recipient at Drew, where "Swede" Lundberg made a name for himself in baseball and basketball.  

Lundberg's Drew career was interrupted by World War II.  He spent his junior year in the V-12 program at Princeton, where he was the second leading hitter in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, batting .362.  His return for senior year in 1946-47, following Marine Corps service in the Pacific Theater and Japan, was a boon to Drew baseball.  As shortstop and lead-off batter he led Drew's team in on-base percentage in three winning baseball seasons (1942, 1943, and 1947), achieving .600 in his senior year.   In his freshman year, the Acorn spoke of his "dynamite" hitting, not to mention "the heads-up running and the speed that make life less joyous for the opposing battery."  By his senior year, the Acorn considered him, the team captain, "one of the great shortstops of Drew history."  In basketball, he played one year of JV and two years on the varsity team, receiving JV scoring honors in February 1942 with 61 points that season; the Acorn spoke of his "very stellar game at guard and his brilliant set shooting."  He also played a year of varsity tennis.