Wendell Butcher – WHS Class of 1932

Football – Lettered 3 years

Basketball – Lettered 2 years

Track – Lettered 2 years

College – Gustavus Adolphus College ‘38 – Football, lettered 1 year as halfback, 3 years as fullback, Team won conference all four years. Minnesota College Conference All-State for 3 years. Selected to the Little All-American Football Team ’37; Track; Basketball; Charter Member of Gustavus Hall of Fame ‘78

Other Football – Signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers football pro team of the NFL after graduation until he entered the service during World War II, playing 4 years as quarterback.

Wendell, his wife, Marge, and two sons live in Memphis, Tennessee. He was inducted into the Trojan Hall of Fame in 1992.

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