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Lysle K. Butler earned numerous laurels as a student/athlete at Oberlin . He was selected as the basketball team captain as a junior and captain of the football team in his senior year. Butler was named All-Ohio football in '23 and '24 and earned his seventh varsity "O" award as a senior in his first season of collegiate tennis. The "dean" of athletic coaches at Oberlin, Butler coached the Yeomen football teams for 28 seasons guiding his teams to 83 wins, number one on the all-time Oberlin football coaches winning list. His 1943 and '45 teams were undefeated, the later being the last Oberlin football squad to compile a perfect season. His '43 team allowed just 19 points to be scored by the opposition all season, the second lowest total in school history. That honor goes to the '24 team on which Butler was the senior captain that allowed just 16 points. Both the '24 and '43 teams recorded five shutouts. Butler coached Oberlin men's basketball for 12 seasons and won 63 games, third on the all-time list. His tennis teams won an astonishing 204 matches in 29 seasons with a .769 winning percentage. He retired from Oberlin as athletic director in 1970 after 40 years of service to the institution. Butler was the founder of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) which is now located in Cleveland.
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