Chris McIntosh speaks during Wednesday's event at the Kohl Center introducing him as UW's new athletic director. He succeeds Barry Alvarez, who will retire June 30.
AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Big Ten Conference commissioner Kevin Warren was among the speakers at Chris McIntosh's introduction.
It was the summer of 1996, Chris McIntosh’s second training camp with the University of Wisconsin football team, and he was starting to doubt whether he had what it took to play for the Badgers.
Wisconsin State Journal sports reporters Jim Polzin and Todd Milewski reflect after an event to name Chris McIntosh the next University of Wisconsin athletic director on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at the Kohl Center.
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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.
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.
Chris McIntosh speaks during Wednesday's event at the Kohl Center introducing him as UW's new athletic director. He succeeds Barry Alvarez, who will retire June 30.
