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Arthur Fletcher - Football (1946-49)
Arthur Fletcher was a four-year member of the Ichabod football team and was inducted into the Washburn Athletics Hall of Fame in 1972. In 1947, the Ichabods enjoyed a 7-1 record with Fletcher consistently scoring and earning big yardage. The 1948 KAW, the school’s yearbook, characterized Fletcher’s running style as “harder to stop than a Santa Fe Streamliner.” Fletcher ranked third in the national rankings for yards gained rushing in small college football. In one game that season against St. Benedict’s of Atchison, Fletcher scored five touchdowns in the team’s 53 to 0 victory. By the 1949 season, the team had a 7-2 record and won the co-conference championship. Fletcher averaged over five yards per carry and was elected by unanimous vote to the all-conference team for the third year in a row.
Fletcher went on to become a member of Kansas Governor Fred Hall’s election team and subsequent administration during the 1950s, U.S. assistant secretary of labor in the Richard Nixon administration. He was also the chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission during the George H. W. Bush administration.
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