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Menomonie High School football broadcasters Chad Zutter (left) and Joe Zydowsky.
MENOMONIE – Chad Zutter has been working for well over two years to put together a comprehensive history of Menomonie High School football and the 40-plus page book, Menomonie High School Football History & Record Book,” has just been released.
Zutter tapped into former coaches, local sports writers and just about anyone who has knowledge of Menomonie’s 130-year history of football. Poring over MHS yearbooks and spending countless hours going through online newspaper files, Zutter has put together a list of all of the known games, then converted that into lists against opponents. He has also compiled a complete list of MHS football head coaches.
“I was so grateful for all the help and assistance on the project from former coaches, media members and other local community members,” Zutter said. “Anyone I asked was more than happy to help with old newspaper clippings or historical artifacts related to Menomonie football. Former Leader Telegram sports editor Ron Buckli had a treasure trove of Menomonie football history.
“I hope I’ve helped build a strong foundation of history for Menomonie football. And maybe even be able to add individual player stats in the future.”
The book is now available through Amazon for $14.95. Zutter said the book will also be available at Menomonie home football games for $20, sold at the MHS Booster Club table, with $5 of each sale going to the Booster Club. The book can be ordered on Amazon at: 130 Years of Menomonie Football, 1895-2024.
Zutter has been very busy this summer. In addition to finishing up the history book before the beginning of the football season, he is in the midst of a stint at the Big Rivers Conference (BRC) statistician, is the Menomonie High School Livestream coordinator for Mustang TV and serves as a broadcaster during the football and basketball seasons.
Zutter’s duties with the BRC including rebuilding, then updating the conference’s website where the goal is to update the website weekly for some sports with conference-only statistics. Zutter will work with other sports to have conference meet results and final standings available.
The Mustang TV fall schedule was just released, which will include all football games, and all home events for boys soccer and girls volleyball. The Menomonie schedule can be accessed at: Mustang TV.
Layne Pitt is the retired UW-Stout sports information director and also worked more than a decade at The Dunn County News.
MHS Football History Book is Available for Purchase by Layne Pitt who is licensed under a CC BY SA 4.0 International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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