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Butch Morse

American football player (1910–1995)

Field	Value
name	Butch Morse
image	Morse-Butch-1936.jpg
caption	Morse in 1936
number	27, 13
position	End
birth_date
birth_place	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.
height_ft	6
height_in	2
weight_lb	199
high_school	Benson Poly Portland, OR
college	Oregon
statlabel1	Games played
statvalue1	44
statlabel2	Starts
statvalue2	16
statlabel3	Yards receiving
statvalue3	345
statlabel4	Touchdowns
statvalue4	1
pfr	MorsBu20

Detroit Lions (1935–38; 1940)
NFL champion (1935)
First-team All-PCC (1934)

Raymond Joseph "Butch" Morse (December 5, 1910 – May 22, 1995) was an American football end who played five seasons in the National Football League (NFL).

High school and college career

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Morse later moved to Portland, Oregon, where he graduated from Benson Polytechnic High School in 1931. In addition to football, where he was MVP on Benson's 1928 city championship team, he played baseball and was the leading scorer for the school's basketball team in 1930.

Morse attended the University of Oregon, where he was a two-time all-Pacific Coast Conference end, and an All-American in his senior year of 1934, when he was also team co-captain.

NFL career

Morse signed with the Detroit Lions in 1935, the year the Lions won their first NFL championship. Morse played for the Lions until 1940, when he was drafted into the United States Army Air Corps. In 1944, he was an assistant coach for the Air Corps' Randolph Field Flyers in the 1944 Cotton Bowl Classic, in which the Flyers tied the heavily favored Texas Longhorns, 7–7.

Personal life and legacy

Morse as an assistant coach at Oregon State, 1951.

Morse married Alice Marie Simonsen in 1935 in Portland, and the couple had three children.

In 1951 Morse joined the staff headed by head coach Kip Taylor as an assistant coach at Oregon State College coaching the team's ends.

He was named to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and the University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997. He died in Corvallis, Oregon in 1995.

References

(October 2006). "PIL Hall of Fame Cyber Museum: Raymond "Butch" Morse". Portland Interscholastic Hall of Fame.
"Raymond "Butch" Morse". GoDucks.com.
(1995-05-24). "Former UO star "Butch" Morse dies". [[The Oregonian]].
[https://www.newspapers.com/article/corvallis-gazette-times-black-sophomores/146119894/ "Whites Defeat Blues 14 to 9 in Gridiron Tilt,"] ''Corvallis Gazette-Times,'' April 16, 1951, p. 7.
Don E. Liebendorfer (ed.), ''Oregon State vs. Stanford: Saturday, November 17, 1951.'' (program) Palo Alto, CA: Department of Athletics, Stanford University, 1951; p. 2.
"Hall of Fame Roll of Honor Members". Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.

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