UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank greets new Badgers athletic director Chris McIntosh on June 2 at the Kohl Center. Blank promoted McIntosh from deputy after an eight-week search to replace the retiring Barry Alvarez.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank composed a quick email reply with some finality at the end of a months-long process to replace Barry Alvarez as University of Wisconsin athletic director.
Big shoes to fill: Look back at Wisconsin athletic directors through the years
Thomas E. Jones, 1916-24
Wisconsin track & field coach Tom Jones, right, poses with four Wisconsin athletes inside Camp Randall in this undated photo provided by the University of Wisconsin.Â
COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
George Little, 1925-1932
COURTESY OF NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION
Walter Meanwell, 1934-1936
COURTESY OF UW
Harry Stuhldreher, 1936-50
Decades after making history under coach Knute Rockne in 1924, Notre Dame's Four Horsemen — right halfback Don Miller (from left), fullback Elmer Layden, quarterback Harry Stuhldreher and left halfback Jim Crowley — dance together in New York City on Oct. 25, 1949.
ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES
Guy Sundt, 1950-55
In 1949, Guy Sundt, left, and Paul F. Neverman, right, were recognized for their quarter of a century of service to the WIAA state high school basketball tournament. Charles W. Wetmore, Sun Prairie principal and president of the WIAA Board of Control, presents the two with gold watches.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank greets new Badgers athletic director Chris McIntosh on June 2 at the Kohl Center. Blank promoted McIntosh from deputy after an eight-week search to replace the retiring Barry Alvarez.
