Chadron State College Athletics

Colerick played end and was one of the outstanding football players on the Eagles’ excellent teams in the late 1940s. Those teams went 21-4-1 and shared two conference championships. In 1944, his first year out of high school, Colerick played football at the University of Nebraska, which did not discontinue its athletic programs during World War II. He then spent two years in the Navy and worked for a year before coming to Chadron State.
Colerick earned all-conference honors all three years at CSC and received Little All-American honorable mention his senior year in 1949. Following a tryout, he reportedly was offered a contract to play for the Chicago Cardinals in the National Football League in 1951, but he did not accept. Later that year, he went to work for Schlumberger Well Services and lived in several Rocky Mountain states before settling in Farmington, N.M. After retiring from the firm in 1972, he opened a real estate appraisal business in Farmington. After he graduated from CSC, Moose and his wife, Carlyle, a native of Broadwater, were active in the Purple Passion group for more than 50 years. He died in 2006 at age 79.