University of North Dakota Athletics

  He is known far and wide as Butch Lince and is one of the last outstanding three-sport athletes UND has had. A native of Mott, N.D., Lince performed extremely well as a Sioux football end, basketball forward, and track weightman. He earned nine letters in those three sports 1964-66. Lince earned All American honors as a Sioux end and twice was named to the NCC team. He also played on the Sioux basketball team that won three straight NCC titles and appeared in the NCAA national tournament Final Eight twice. In track he set both school and conference records as a javelin-thrower and still holds the UND javelin mark of 213-2. After college he played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1967-69, with the Minnesota Vikings in 1969, and had a shot with the Los Angeles Rams in 1970 and then retired. With the specialization that now takes place in college athletics, Lince was one of the last UND athletes to achieve this type of standout activity.