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When the princess met the linebacker

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When publisher Cheryl Wormley was Illinois Dairy Princess in 1964, she was photographed with Dick Butkus at the State Fair. As students at the University of Illinois, he was at the fair to celebrate the Illini’s first Rose Bowl championship in more than a decade and she was handing out ribbons at the dairy show.

By Cheryl Wormley I had planned to write this Declarations about the trip Jim and I took to Colorado last week, but that can wait. Dick Butkus’ death Oct. 5 […]

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