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www.CSUSigep.org Colorado gamma ChapTer | 3 Ben Seiz '03 Enjoys Football Scouting Career B en Seiz '03 is a recently registered NFL Players Association agent with clients in the Australian Football League, Indoor Football League, and one just out of Marshall. He also works full time at Sports Authority Corporate as a senior marketing analyst with a promotion on the horizon. He recently attended the 2013 New Mexico Bowl as well as the NFL combine. Ben lives in Englewood, Colorado, and stays in touch with his SigEp brothers. He enjoys attending CSU football games with his brothers in the area. Contact Ben at benzseiz@yahoo.com. E lwood Nye 1914 attended Colorado Agricultural College from 1910 to 1914 and earned his doctor of veterinary medicine. He ran track for the school's new coach, Harry Hughes. He held the CSU track record in the 100-yard dash of 9.8 seconds (without the aid of starting blocks). The record stood for more than 40 years. During the 1920s and '30s he was able to interview surviving members of the Seventh Cavalry, including Custer's former Chief of Scouts, Colonel Charles Varnum, and Sergeant Charles Windolph, recording firsthand testimony from people who been part of the most famous military engagements on the American frontier. Colonel Nye's archaeological evidence and reassessment of Native American testimony led to a new interpretation of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In the 1920s, battlefield investigators Colonel Nye and R. G. Cartwright discovered hundreds of .45–70 shell cases along a ridge line (Now know as Nye-Cartwright Ridge) between South Medicine Tail Coulee and the next drainage at North Medicine Tail. In 1929 CSU presented the first Nye Trophy. It is given annually to a senior athlete who is in good academic standing and has observed all the rules of training and competition, while showing character and conduct in keeping with the highest tradition of CSU. The award was established that year by Elwood and his brother, William Nye 1918, both former Aggie athletes and part of Colorado Gamma's rich history. In July of 1938, Colonel Nye led the Fourth Cavalry on its last full mounted field training expedition from Fort Meade, South Dakota, to the Pole Mountain Target and Maneuver Area in Wyoming, returning in August. Six hundred horses took part in the march. This was the U.S. Army's last full cavalry march. The Army shortly thereafter made the final conversion to mechanization. When a cemetery of buried horse bones was discovered in 1941 at Custer Battlefield, then U. S. Park Service Superintendent Edward S. Luce immediately sent for Nye and notified the National Park Service that the cavalry veterinarian must be designated as the only person authorized to study the bones and interpret their possible historical significance. Unfortunately, the report of the excavation of the horse bones has gone missing, the list of bones recovered from the pit, and their whereabouts remain a mystery. Colonel Nye's knowledge and investigations made him a frequent lecturer on the West and the American Indian Wars, and culminated in his writing, Marching With Custer, published in 1946. It documented the use and abuse of horses during Custer's march from Fort Abraham Lincoln, North Dakota, to the Little Big Horn, Montana Territory, in 1876. After 29 years with the Army Veterinary Corps, Colonel Nye retired in 1946 and taught bacteriology and pathology as an associate professor on the faculty at Colorado State University Veterinary College. He served as Colorado Gamma alumni board president from 1946 to 1950 as well as faculty advisor for the chapter. Colonel Nye was the recipient of an important Army decoration, the Legion of Merit, in 1946. The Elwood L. Nye Veterinary Clinic at Fort Carson Army Base, Colorado, is named in honor of him. Brother Nye passed away in 1975; and in 1983, a flagpole at the teaching hospital at Colorado State University Veterinary School was dedicated to his memory with a ceremony citing his many achievements as a veterinarian, teacher, Army officer, and patriot. Special thanks to brother Dan Reagan '82 for his assistance in researching and writing this article. History Highlights Spotlight on Colonel Elwood L. Nye 1914 Erik Olson, Ben Seiz '03, and Joey Porter enjoyed the 2013 New Mexico Bowl. Joey is a former CSU all-WAC player and Super Bowl XL Champion. Erik was an all-conference DB for the Jags. He has served as the Director of Development for the CSU College of Business since 2009.

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