Chadron State College Athletics

Bauer followed his friend and fellow 1994 Hall of Fame inductee Larry Ruzicka from North Bend to Chadron State. Both had played football in high school under CSC graduate Danny Knight.
Bauer played safety and set the Eagles’ single-season interception record as a senior in 1973, when he swiped 10 passes. Ron Brooks intercepted nine passes in 1975 and Cody Gamble picked off eight in 1992, but no other CSC players have ever intercepted more than seven in a season. Bauer finished his career with 16 interceptions, which was a school record at the time.  Since then, five CSC defensive backs have exceeded that total.
Bauer earned Nebraska College Conference and NAIA District 11 honors as a senior and also was a second-team Academic All-American. After graduating, he worked at Chadron State for nine years, serving as an admissions counselor, director of student life and as the college’s first director of admissions the final five years.
He became a State Farm Insurance agent in Chadron in 1983. For the last 20 years, he has been the president of the Eagles Booster Club and is currently president of the Chadron State Foundation’s board of directors. His wife, the former Lorrie Johnson, also is a Chadron State graduate. Their son, Aaron, was a four-year starting linebacker for the football team.