[3][4] On September 1, 1922, the football coach for Marquette University gave the Packers permission to sign Taugher.
The Packers wished to get official permission, since the team had been in trouble with the league the year before for signing ineligible players.
[6] Taugher was a second lieutenant with the 6th Regiment, 4th Brigade (Marine), 2nd Division of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.
43, W.D., 1918), Second Lieutenant Claude Buckley Taugher (MCSN: 0-3440), United States Marine Corps, is cited by the Commanding General, American Expeditionary Forces, for gallantry in action and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the Victory Medals awarded him.
Second Lieutenant Taugher distinguished himself while serving with the Sixth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, France, 30 September to 11 November 1918.