Lysle K. Butler
American football and basketball coach, athletics administrator
About Lysle K. Butler
Lived 1903 – 1973 (aged 69–70). Lysle K. Butler was an American basketball coach, american football coach, track and field coach and tennis coach.
Lysle K. Butler (1903 – July 6, 1973) was an American football, basketball, and tennis coach and college athletics administrator. Butler served as the head football coach at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana from 1928 to 1929. He spent the next 28 seasons coach at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where he also served as the head basketball coach in four separate stints.
Butler died on July 6, 1973.
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Who was Lysle K. Butler?
American football and basketball coach, athletics administrator (1903–1973)
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Lysle K. Butler was born in 1903.
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Lysle K. Butler died on 6 July 1973 in Oberlin.
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Lysle K. Butler was a basketball coach, american football coach, track and field coach and tennis coach.
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Lysle K. Butler was American.
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