Osborne Milsted "Butch" Helveston, Sr. (December 5, 1913 – September 2, 1961), sometimes listed as Osborn Helveston, was an

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player.

Biography

Helveston was born in

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, in 1913. He graduated from Biloxi High School in 1932. He attended

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and played college football at the

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position for the

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team. He was selected by the Central Press Association as a first-team guard on the 1935 All-America college football team. He graduated from LSU in 1936. After graduating from LSU, Helveston served as a coach and principal at Baton Rouge High School. He began as assistant coach and was promoted to head coach in 1938. He was later the personnel director for the Baton Rouge school system. He died in September 1961 at age 47 after suffering a heart attack at his family camp near Baton Rouge. He was posthumously inducted into the

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in 1976.

References

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