Chadron State College Athletics

Blundell was a member of the Chadron High School’s undefeated football team his senior year in 1954 and won the Class B low hurdles at the state track meet the following spring. He continued to excel in both sports at Chadron State. He was a standout end on the Eagles’ undefeated football team in 1958, when he received the Carricker Award as the Outstanding Lineman in the Nebraska College Conference and was a second-team NAIA All-American.  In track, he won the high hurdles at the Nebraska State College Meet three times and the low hurdles once.  He set the meet record of 14.9 seconds in the 120-yard highs at the Corn Palace Relays his senior year.
Besides his athletic achievements, Blundell also was an outstanding student, was a member of the debate squad, had leads in several drama productions and was the CSC Ivy Day orator his senior year.
Blundell earned a master’s degree in English at the University of Arkansas in 1960 and joined the Navy, where he commanded two ships and was an officer ashore in intelligence, command and control and strategic planning.  One of his assignments was at the NATO headquarters in Oslo. Following his discharge, he taught English at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas for several years. He died Oct. 12, 1996 in Las Vegas.
He was married to two women from Chadron. His first wife was the late Marlene Rasmussen Blundell. He then married Janice Knox, who was the CSC homecoming queen in 1956.