[2] Beise played at the fullback position for the Minnesota Golden Gophers football teams from 1933 to 1935 and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1935 by the North American Newspaper Alliance, and the Central Press Association (based on a poll of college football captains taken).
[4] He was considered a powerful plunger and one of the most effective blockers in the Bernie Bierman era of single wing football.
"[4] He has been described as a "battering ram fullback," and one contemporary account notes that Minnesota's winning streak in the 1934 and 1935 seasons was due in no small measure to Biese's powerful drive.
[6] After graduating, Beise served as a backfield coach and physical education instructor at the University of Minnesota.
Shelly was a great football player, a real personal friend and a grand fellow in every way.