Chadron State College Athletic Hall of Fame
Colgate was the starting center for the Chadron State football teams 1966-68. The Eagles were 0-10 the first year he played and 8-1 his final year. He was a team captain and a second-team all-District 11 selection as a senior.
After graduating in 1970, Colgate was a high school head football coach for 31 years, compiling a 174-105 record, and also coached track and field, usually as an assistant who worked with throwers, for 38 years. He was named the Colorado Class 4A football coach of the year in 1979 after his team at Buena Vista was the runner-up in the state playoffs. He became the winningest coach in the history of Campbell County High School at Gillette, Wyo., in 1994. While at Wasson High in Colorado Springs in the late 1990s, he was the Metro League’s nominee for coach of the year in Colorado three times.
He also was selected as Campbell County High’s Teacher of the Year in 1995.
He is married to the former Patty Fitzgibbon, daughter of long-time CSC coach and registrar, L.J. Fitzgibbon. Their sons, Tim and Andy, attended CSC and participated in athletics.
