Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Bringing Back Glory (AGGIE FOOTBALL)


Check out this cool image of my Dad, Grandpa Gutke, or as Aggie fans knew him, Butch Gutke. He played Aggie Football in the early 40's. He was even drafted to play football for the New York Giants. We have his letter of invitation. Unfortunately, he was also drafted by Uncle Sam to serve in the Navy during WWII. Military service came first. When the war was over, he became a football coach. I grew up attending football games and loving sports.

It looks like Kessee has designed a shirt featuring Grandpa Gutke. It sounds like we can order them. I will try to find out ordering details. You can check out the original post at lundbergs.blogspot.com/

3 comments:

Abbigail said...

that shirt is awesome. We will definitely be getting some.

Anonymous said...

That's pretty cool!

Here's a link with some photos and tributes:

http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/risraels/gutke.html

steve and jessica said...

I'd love to see a copy of the invitation letter. I didn't know that existed.