Photo collage of images of Butch Strickler, a former UW student-athlete and founder of the Butch's Bologna Bash fundraising event, with the Camp Randall 100 logo.

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Camp Randall 100: Butch Strickler

A simple idea made a big-time Badgers fan the life of the party

General News

Camp Randall 100: Butch Strickler

A simple idea made a big-time Badgers fan the life of the party

Camp Randall 100 logo
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. — Butch's Bologna Bash occupied just one day a year on the calendar, but its namesake's love of all things Badgers never took a day off.

From humble beginnings to a highly-anticipated event that drew 10,000 people to the UW Field House, the Bologna Bash was Butch Strickler's most visible contribution to the alma mater he loved so deeply.

The annual spring party raised more than $3 million for a once-struggling athletic department over its three-decade run and introduced many to a man known for his iron-like handshake and his heart of gold.

Read more about Strickler and his beloved Bologna Bash in his Camp Randall 100 profile.


Camp Randall 100 profiles through August 9, 2017:
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