Veryl Switzer, the trailblazing former Kansas State and Green Bay Packers halfback who traded a career in the NFL for service as a lieutenant in the Air Force, died Saturday. He was 89.

Veryl Switzer, one of the best football players in Wildcats history has died. He was the first Black scholarship athlete to graduate from Kansas State in 1954.

A charter member of the K-State Athletics Hall of Fame and K-State Football Ring of Honor, former Wildcat halfback Veryl Switzer passed ... American scholarship player to graduate from K-State. "Today ...

One of the most decorated and influential athletes in Kansas State history ... To this day, Switzer remains the highest-drafted football player in K-State history. Switzer left the NFL to serve ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. – A charter member of the K-State Athletics Hall of Fame and K-State Football Ring of Honor, former Wildcat halfback Veryl Switzer passed away on Saturday at the age of 89. One ...

Switzer, who earned his master's in education from Kansas State in 1974, was a charter member of the school's athletics hall of fame in 1990. He was placed in the school's football ring of honor ...

Veryl Switzer, the first Black player drafted in the first round by the Green Bay Packers, died June 4 at age 89. ... He was added to the Kansas State football ring of honor in 2002.

Former Kansas State football halfback Veryl Switzer died Saturday ... considered as one of the most well-rounded players in the school's history. Switzer was the team's leading rusher 1952 and ...

NICODEMUS — Although Veryl Switzer was a gridiron All American at Kansas State University and played fullback for the Green Bay Packers, his daughter said when it came to baseball, "He couldn't ...

Switzer, who earned his master's in education from Kansas State in 1974, was a charter member of the school's athletics hall of fame in 1990. He was placed in the school's football ring of honor ...

Veryl Switzer ... two more years playing football in Canada. Switzer spent a decade working at the Chicago Board of Education before returning to Kansas State, where he developed the school's ...