Beloit College

After winning Illinois all-state honors as a prep, Bill Chadwick enjoyed a brilliant football career during three varsity seasons and from his position as center called plays both defensive and offensively.  A defensive stalwart known as a exceptional play analyst, he was instrumental in helping Beloit win its first Midwest Conference championship in 1940 and co-captained the team as a senior.  His outstanding play earned him second-team all-conference selection as a sophomore and first-team all conference selection the next two years.  In 1942, Chadwick received more than one million votes to become the only Beloit player – and the first in the conference – named to the Chicago Tribune’s College All-Star team, which met the Chicago Bears; that year he also turned down a professional contract from the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League to enter the naval reserve.  As a Phi Beta Kappa campus leader, he won honorable mention on the all-time national Phi Kappa Psi fraternity team named in 1982.  President of the Phosphate Rock Export Association for a decade before his retirement in 1982, Chadwick resides in Tampa and serves as a president of the Florida Senior Golf Association.