Bud Jorgensen

Carl Wallace "Bud" Jorgensen was born in 1904 in Marinette, Wisconsin. He began travelling with the Green Bay Packers after he graduated from Green Bay West High School. He could travel with the team because his father worked for the railroad and could get free passes. In 1924, the Packers hired Jorgensen to help out athletic trainer Pat Holland, probably running errands and "learning the ropes."

Sometime between 1929 and 1935, Jorgensen officially became the Packers assistant athletic trainer. In 1935, Dave Woodward would become the head athletic trainer for the Packers. Upon Woodward's death in 1940 Jorgensen became the Packers head athletic trainer.

Being a head athletic trainer for an NFL team was not a full-time job. Jorgensen would work as a bell boy at a hotel, school maintenance worker and for a local sporting goods store. He would see the Packers through some lean years but also would experience winning eleven NFL titles and two Super Bowls.

In 1969, Jorgensen would switch positions with his assistant, Dominic Gentile. Jorgensen would work two years as an assistant athletic trainer and then retire in 1971. Jorgensen served as the athletic trainer for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay basketball team from 1972 to 1975. He would be inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in 1968 and the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1976. Jorgensen will pass away on December 18, 1982.

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