Lloyd Pixley

{{Short description|American football player}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

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|school=Ohio State Buckeyes

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|currentposition=Guard

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|birth_date=c. 1900

|birth_place=Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

|death_date=July 30, 1954

|death_place=Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

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|weight=230

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• Ohio State (1918−1919, 1921−1922)

|highlights =

• Third-team All-American (1919)
• 3× First-team All-Big Ten (1919, 1921, 1922)

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Lloyd A. "Butch" Pixley (c. 1900 − July 30, 1954) was an American football player. A native of Columbus, Ohio, he played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes at the guard position in 1918, 1919, 1921, and 1922.

Under wartime S.A.T.C. rules,The Students' Army Training Corps was organized during World War I. Under S.A.T.C. rules, and with the loss of many upperclassmen to wartime service, freshmen were deemed eligible to play college football during the 1918 season. Pixley was eligible to play as a freshman on the 1918 Ohio State Buckeyes football team. As a sophomore in 1919, Pixley was selected by Dick Jemison as a first-team All-American.{{cite web|title=All-America Addendum|publisher=College Football Historical Society Newsletter|date=May 2006|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv19/CFHSNv19n3f.pdf}} That year, he was also selected by Frank G. Menke as a first-team player on the 1919 All-Western college football team.{{cite book|title=Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1920|year=1920|editor=Walter Camp|editor-link=Walter Camp|page=41|publisher=A. G. Spalding & Brothers (Spalding's Athletic Library)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hww7AQAAMAAJ}} He was also a consensus first-team player on the 1919 All-Big Ten Conference football team.

In 1920, Pixley attended Princeton University, but he did not play football that year.{{cite news|title=Pixley, Giant Lineman, Will Lead Ohio State|newspaper=The Washington Times|date=December 19, 1921|page=15|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/79963174/?terms=lloyd%2Bpixley%2Bohio}}

Pixley returned to Ohio State in 1921.{{cite news|title="Butch" Pixley Comes Back to Ohio State|newspaper=Iowa City Press-Citizen|date=February 18, 1921|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/16053472/?terms=lloyd%2Bpixley%2Bohio}} That fall, he was selected as a first-team All-American by Norman E. Brown of the Central Press Association.{{cite news|title=Western Players Predominate On All American Team Picked By Normy Brown|work=Capital Times|date=1921-11-28}} He was also selected by Collier's Weekly as a first-team player on the 1921 All-Western college football team.{{cite news|title=The All-Western Team|publisher=Collier's Weekly|date=January 1922|page=162|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IvlAAAAMAAJ&q=devine+slater+huffman+western&pg=RA1-PA162}} He was also a consensus first-team player on the 1921 All-Big Ten Conference football team.{{cite news|title=Billy Evans Picks All-Western Conference Eleven for 1921|newspaper=Iowa City Press-Citizen|date=November 26, 1921|page=5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/16079863/?terms=crisler%2Bdevine%2Blocke}}{{cite news|title=Hawk Stars Get Places on Elevens|newspaper=Iowa City Press-Citizen|date=November 28, 1921|page=4|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/16079669/?terms=crisler%2Bdevine%2Blocke%2Bconference}}{{cite news|author=Luther A. Huston|title=Galaxy of Star Players Wore Moleskin In Big Ten During 1921 Season|newspaper=Tulsa Daily World|date=December 11, 1921|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/78741013/}}

As a senior, Pixley served as the captain of the 1922 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, the first Ohio State team to play in the newly completed Ohio Stadium.{{cite news|title=Lloyd Pixley New Ohio State Capt.|newspaper=The Daily Pantagraph|date=December 2, 1921|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/70415187/?terms=lloyd%2Bpixley%2Bohio}} At the end of the 1922 season, he was selected as a first-team All-American by the New York Tribune and a second-team All-American by Frank G. Menke.{{cite news|title=M'Carthy Picks Them In Pairs|work=The Newark Advocate|date=1922-12-05}}{{cite news|author=Frank G. Menke|author-link=Frank G. Menke|title=All-American Grid Selections|work=The Lincoln Star|date=1922-12-11}} He was also selected by some as a first-team player on the 1922 All-Big Ten Conference football team.{{cite news|title=Chicago Journal's All-Conference|newspaper=Iowa City Press-Citizen|date=November 29, 1922|page=9|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/16093898/?terms=kipke%2Blocke}}{{cite news|author=Bryn Griffiths|title=All-Conference Teams as Selected by Bryn|newspaper=Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin)|date=November 28, 1922|page=13|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/44400392/?terms=kipke%2Blocke%2Bconference}}

Pixley later became a part owner of WLOK radio in Lima, Ohio, and helped establish WLOK-TV (now known as WLIO). He also owned the Brightman Nut Manufacturing Company in Columbus. He died at University Hospital in Columbus in 1954 at age 54.{{cite news|title=Lloyd Pixley Dies|newspaper=The Daily Reporter (Dover, Ohio)|date=July 31, 1954|page=17|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/30436139/?terms=lloyd%2Bpixley%2Bohio}}