New UW athletic director Chris McIntosh, right, answers a question during a news conference Wednesday as Pete Miller, the chair of the Athletic Board and the search committee, looks on.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank solicited feedback from a select number of voices on what qualities and characteristics in the next Badgers athletic director mattered to them.
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.
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New UW athletic director Chris McIntosh, right, answers a question during a news conference Wednesday as Pete Miller, the chair of the Athletic Board and the search committee, looks on.
