Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nelson is familiar with the Stadium. He tried it out in 1940 when he was the wingback on the Michigan team that shut out Harvard 26-0. The three other men in the backfield were named Tom Harmon, Forrest Evashevski, and Bob West fall...
College, however, just marked the real beginning, of his troubles, as well as his successes, in the field of athletics. His Freshman year passed by quietly enough, partly because Michigan plebes do not play outside games, but almost as soon as Butch got to the Varsity he received a leg injury which knocked him out for the season...
Butch took four years out from education after graduating in 1931, going to work for General Motors to earn the wherewithal to get to Michigan. But he did not completely also touch with athletics during this period, for he played center forward on a G.M. basketball team in his spare hours. This was all a stopgap measure until be got to college in 1935, where he went back to his first loves, football and wrestling...
...played a season of football with the Bernic Bierman-coached Iowa Seahawks. Later on he was transferred to Pearl Harbor where he was co-coach of the Fort Island team there until his discharge in the fall of 1945, at which time he made a boe-line back to Michigan where he took on the dual jobs of assistant line coach and Varsity wrestling coach...
...been disappointed in the results, even when compared with his Michigan team of last year. "There are several Harvard players who could make any team in the country," he thinks, although he admits that the academic standards at Cambridge make it tougher for his present pupils to devote themselves to football here than elsewhere. But even this isn't too important to the coach: wanting to win football games is what counts and apparently a Harvard man wants to win as much as anyone else...