Stephen E. Epler

(1909-1997) lived at Chester, Thayer County, and in Lincoln and Beatrice. Educator, college administrator, pioneered six-man football in 1934, which was adopted by small public and private schools nationwide; founder of Portland State University in 1946, served as top administrator of three community colleges. Consult Time, October 11, 1937, p. 43 and July 29, 1946, pp. 51-52 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, November 1939, pp. 5-6 and Who's Who in American Education, Vol 19 (1959-60) 434-435 and Lincoln Journal Star obituary, July 15, 1997, pp. C-1, C-3.

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