Basil Lavon Stanley, nicknamed "Butch" and "Chick", was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at three different schools—Wabash College, the University of Notre Dame, and Saint Mary's College of California—and professionally for one season, in 1924, with the Rock Island Independents of the National Football League (NFL). Stanley served as the head football coach at the First District Agricultural School in 1924 and River Falls State Teachers College in 1927. He was also the head basketball coach at the University of Arizona for one season, in 1923–24.
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Basil Lavon Stanley, nicknamed "Butch" and "Chick", was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at three different schools—Wabash College, the University of Notre Dame, and Saint Mary's College of California—and professionally for one season, in 1924, with the Rock Island Independents of the National Football League (NFL). Stanley served as the head football coach at the First District Agricultural School in 1924 and River Falls State Teachers College in 1927. He was also the head basketball coach at the University of Arizona for one season, in 1923–24.
