Iowa
Old Press
THE SIDNEY ARGUS-HERALD
December 18, 1924
PHI BETA KAPPA FOR OTTE
One of Sidney's lads, Lowell Otte, star end of the Iowa
University football eleven has been granted the key of Phi Beta
Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity at Iowa University. This
will go a long way to confute the harpings of those who say that
good football playing and excellent scholarship do not go hand in
hand. Otte leads the senior class in grades and was one of the
fourteen to receive the honor of membership in the fraternity. He
has also received the Hawkeye scholarship of $100 for scholarship
and outside activities, two letters in track, three varsity
football letters and numerals in freshman football and track. He
has been president of the freshman class and also of his school
fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta. Shortly after his arrival at the
university in 1921, he gave promise of establishing a high
scholastic record by placing in the upper five per cent of his
class in intelligence tests and is now a candidate for the Rhodes
scholarship from Iowa to Oxford University in England. His
diploma of graduation in June of the coming year will read
"with highest distinction." Dramatics can also be added
to the list of Otte's acomplishments, for he played a prominent
role in the student production of "The Merchant of
Venice" last year and also appeared in a production in which
the lines were in the French language. The story of his brilliant
school record is told in his grades which show that he received
sixty-six A and twenty-seven B grades in three years. During the
first semester of his second year he earned nothing but A grades.
The highest percentage any student in the University can possibly
get is ninety-eight, and his average for the three years is
ninety-five and three-tenths. Lowell was practically the
unanimous choice for end on mythical 1924 football teams and has
won conference honors for two consecutive years. In his three
seasons of football he was not forced out of the game by injuries
until November 22, when in the final grid contest of his career
he wrenched his knee in the game with the Wolverines in which
Iowa led by the score of 9 - 2.
[submitted by W.F., Oct. 2003]