STROMSBURG – Forty years ago, a teenager from Shelby was named Offensive Player of the Year for a football team that won a state title, the 6-foot-6, 202-pound senior eventually signing a letter of intent to play for the University of South Dakota (USD) in the spring of 1982.
Todd Gerdes was also a basketball and track and field standout, an honor student who got along well with most classmates and…