Camp Randall 100: Walter

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Camp Randall 100: Walter "Mickey" McGuire

Colorful competitor was named Big Ten MVP as leader of strong Badgers squads in ’30s

General News

Camp Randall 100: Walter "Mickey" McGuire

Colorful competitor was named Big Ten MVP as leader of strong Badgers squads in ’30s

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The Camp Randall 100 is an exclusive list celebrating 100 people who have shaped Camp Randall Stadium's history across the realms of sports, music, culture and beyond. A new honoree will be revealed each day over the final 100 days leading up to kickoff of the Wisconsin football team's season opener with Utah State on Friday, Sept. 1. The Camp Randall 100 reveal is part of a year-long celebration of the history of the iconic stadium, which opened in 1917.
 

MADISON, Wis. — Taking his pay from a pineapple cannery, Walter Francis McGuire made his way from his native Hawaii to Madison to embark on a career that would see him become a decorated running back and sprinter for the Badgers in the 1930s.

Along the way he picked up a nickname from comic strip and played a key role in some of the Badgers' most memorable wins of his era.

Read more about the colorful career of "Mickey (Himself)" in McGuire's Camp Randall 100 profile.


Camp Randall 100 profiles through June 19, 2017:
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