Erwin Theodore "Erv" Prasse (December 1, 1917 – June 18, 2005) was an American multi-sport standout athlete in the 1930s and 1940s, notably in football, basketball and baseball.
Prasse also played minor league baseball for two years within the St. Louis Cardinals' farm system.
Prasse was an All-Big Ten selection as a junior in 1938, and he was elected captain of the Hawkeye football squad for 1939.
Prasse was selected by the Detroit Lions in the 1940 NFL draft (11th round, 96th overall) but never ended up playing in the league.
After college, he played in the NBL for the Oshkosh All-Stars for parts of the 1940–41 and 1941–42 seasons, winning championships in both, before having to fight in World War II.
[8] His baseball career ended due to an injury sustained during World War II in which his throwing arm was shot.
[9] Prasse died on June 18, 2005, in Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois, from head wounds suffered in a fall earlier that week.