Artist: Joseph Allworthy (1892–1991)
Arlie Max Mucks Sr.
MUCKS, ARLIE MAX SR. (1891–1967), inducted 1958
Arlie Mucks Sr.’s original claim to fame was as the first high school student in American history to compete in the Olympics, representing the US Track & Field Team in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912. An All-American football player while at the University of Wisconsin, he graduated from the College of Agriculture in 1917 and became a county agricultural agent. Mucks then became a professor of animal husbandry and assistant director of agricultural extension at the university, retiring in 1956 to accept the position of director of livestock promotion for the Oscar Mayer Packing Company in Madison. A longtime secretary of the Wisconsin Livestock Breeders Association, in 1941, Arlie Mucks became a director of the International Live Stock Exposition and served as both vice president and director of the Cattle Department.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 147