{"id":4403,"date":"2014-08-28T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:41:59","slug":"legendary-coach-edor-nelson-38-honored-community-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/08\/28\/legendary-coach-edor-nelson-38-honored-community-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary coach Edor Nelson &#8217;38 honored by community, media"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4407\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/08\/Edor-e1409346113314.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4407\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/08\/Edor-e1409346113314.jpeg\" alt=\"Edor Nelson '38 was presented a special jersey in honor of his 100th birthday.\" width=\"200\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edor Nelson &#8217;38 was presented a special jersey in honor of his 100th birthday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Legendary Auggie coach, athlete and instructor Edor Nelson &#8217;38 died August 27 at the age of 100. Nelson, who led the Auggie football and baseball teams for nearly four decades, died only nine days after a centennial birthday celebration at Augsburg where hundreds of friends and Auggies\u00a0turned out to\u00a0honor\u00a0him. Nelson&#8217;s birthday celebration and his death have garnered strong media attention. Coverage of Nelson&#8217;s birthday party and incredible life include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KMSP Fox 9: Augsburg legend Edor Nelson turns 10<\/li>\n<li>Pioneer Press: <a title=\"Pioneer Press about Edor Nelson's 100th birthday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/sports\/ci_26359614\/augsburg-celebrates-100th-birthday-coaching-pioneer-edor-nelson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Augsburg celebrates 100th birthday of coaching pioneer Edor Nelson<\/a><\/li>\n<li>WCCO 4: <a title=\"WCCO about Edor Nelson's 100th birthday\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2014\/08\/18\/augsburg-renames-football-field-for-100-year-old-alum\/\">Augsburg renames football field for\u00a0100-year-old alum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bring Me the News: Longtime Augsburg college coach Edor Nelson dies at 100<\/li>\n<li>Examiner.com:\u00a0Edor Nelson, founder of Augsburg College wrestling program, dies at 100<\/li>\n<li>KARE 11:\u00a0Legendary Augsburg coach Edor Nelson dies<\/li>\n<li>KMSP Fox 9:\u00a0Legendary coach, American hero Edor Nelson dies at 100<\/li>\n<li>Star Tribune:\u00a0Former Augsburg coach Edor Nelson dies at 100<\/li>\n<li>WCCO 4: <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2014\/08\/28\/augsburg-community-mourns-loss-of-sports-legend-edor-nelson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Augsburg community mourns loss of sports legend Edor Nelson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Auggie coach, athlete and instructor Edor Nelson &#8217;38 died August 27 at the age of 100. Nelson, who led the Auggie football and baseball teams for nearly four decades, died only nine days after a centennial birthday celebration at Augsburg where hundreds of friends and Auggies\u00a0turned out to\u00a0honor\u00a0him. Nelson&#8217;s birthday celebration and his death &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,4,6,1],"tags":[3336,3337,899,1098],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-articles","category-faculty","category-donors","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized","tag-100th-birthday","tag-coach","tag-edor-nelson","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11762,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/11762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}