Chadron State College Athletic Hall of Fame
A native of Lead, S.D., Cheney was an athlete at CSC in the late 1920s and early ‘30s. Not much is known about his exploits. The form he filled out prior to his Hall of Fame induction said he earned all-conference in football three times and twice in basketball. After graduating in 1933, he returned to Lead and worked for Homestake Mining Co. for four years. He then taught and coached at Morrill before going to Rawlins, Wyo., in 1940 to teach math, science and industrial arts and to coach. He said his 1947 football team won the Wyoming state championship and many of the projects produced by his industrial arts students won top honors in state competition. He was on the Rawlins faculty 32 years before retiring in 1972.
