Class of 1929: Baseball, Basketball and Football

Arnold R. Simso won ten letters in football, basketball, baseball, hockey and tennis at Edison high School in Minneapolis, and was All-City in both football and basketball.

A quarterback, guard and catcher, he won eleven letters at Carleton, missing out on a perfect twelve only because he enrolled in January and was not eligible for baseball his first year. He captained the 1928 gridders, and was All-Conference in both his junior and senior years. The football teams he played on won 21, lost 5 and tied 2, three of the losses coming to Northwestern and Army, and won two Conference championships. He was also twice All-Conference in basketball for two championship teams, and the teams he played on won 44 and lost 16.

It was in fast-pitch softball, then known as diamondball or kittenball, that Simso gained national recognition. A pitcher virtually without peer, he competed in the '30s for the Christian-Lindsey and Stephens Buick teams. Several of those teams were state champions, and the 1931 team captured the national diamondball championship. He was named pitcher on the Minneapolis all-time All-Star diamondball team.