Ray Eliot

Raymond Eliot "Butch" Nusspickel (June 13, 1905 – February 24, 1980) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

His Illinois Fighting Illini football teams won three Big Ten Conference championships (1946, 1951, and 1953) and two Rose Bowls (1947 and 1952).

Notable players during Eliot's tenure included Bobby Mitchell and Ray Nitschke.

He attended the University of Illinois, played as a guard on the football team in 1930 and 1931, and was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.

[2] Eliot's 1951 Illinois squad is currently the last Illini team to finish the season with no losses.