Frank Seiler Butterworth Sr. (September 21, 1870 – August 21, 1950) was an American

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player and coach. Butterworth attended

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, where he was a fullback on Yale's football teams and a member of the

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society. He was famously enucleated by Bert Waters during "The Bloodbath in Hampden Park". He was selected as an

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in 1893 and 1894. Butterworth was also a track star and boxer at Yale. After his college career was over, Butterworth coached football at the

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(1895–1896) and Yale (1897–1898). The 1897 Yale football team coached by Butterworth went undefeated with two ties, against

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and

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. Butterworth worked for the bankers Bertron & Storrs, was a senior partner with real estate brokers F. S. Butterworth & Company, and was president of the New Haven Hotel Company. He served as a Connecticut State Senator from 1907 to 1909 and was a Second Lieutenant in the

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during

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. Butterworth died in his sleep at age 79 in Connecticut.

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