Beloit College

A unique honor was to “Bud” Butler in the fall of 1940 when the Midwest Conference championship came to Beloit College; coach of that winning team, he had been captain of the team which had won the same championship exactly fifteen years before. Two other honors held by Butler were winning four letters in one sport – football – and selection for two successive years as end oh the Midwest Conference Mythical Eleven. The annual of Butler’s Senior year rated him “one of the best ends who over performed for Beloit” since the spectacular career of Big Ed Merrill; Captain Butler’s team was deemed “the greatest team that ever represented Beloit on the gridiron.”  Ten years after graduation Charles E. Butler, then a successful Chicago businessman, returned to his alma mater and for five years devoted the fall weeks to coaching football, a career climaxed in 1940 when Beloit again won the Conference Championship. The 1941 annual was dedicated to Butler with this accolade: “To Charles E. Butler, whose personality, character and leadership have inspired in Beloit’s football teams the desire to win regardless of all offs...Respected in victory and defeat by his opponents for his unswerving clean sportsmanship, “Bud” brought only praise to himself and his alma mater.”