Pedersen was born in 1915 inn Chicago and attended West High School in Minneapolis.
[2][3] At the end of the 1939 season, he was selected by both the Associated Press and the United Press as a third-team tackle on the 1939 College Football All-America Team.
[8][9] He missed three seasons to Army service during World War II.
[1] During the 1940 season, he also played for the Milwaukee Chiefs of the American Football League and the Jersey City Giants of the American Football Association.
[1] Pedersen died in 1983 at age 67 in Hopkins, Minnesota.