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According to Ron Fimrite of Sports Illustrated, Tollefson "dropped out of school for three years to 'go on the bum'."

The Wisconsin Supreme Court cited its own 1950 decision in a 1956 case concerning a lawsuit that another professional football player, Clyde Johnson, had filed against the Green Bay Packers.

Tollefson was released by the Green Bay Packers after the first two regular games of the 1945 season. He had signed a printed contact with an added provision, "minimum $3,600 for season" in the handwriting of Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau, the team's general manager and head coach. The Packers only paid Tollefson $900 and he sued the team for $2,700. After losing in the trial court, Tollefson appealed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which ruled that "We conclude that the minimum clause must be construed to mean that, unless discharged for cause, plaintiff was entitled to the full sum of $3,600 whether he participated in the games played or not", and remanded the case fir a new trial.

The team was rated #9 in the United States in the final 1939 Associated Press college football poll.