With the two schools' football programs playing Saturday in Columbus, the Ohio State marching band honored a member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln marching band who recently died in a car crash.During the band's halftime performance, the Ohio State band spelled out Tyler Butterfield's first name. William Ballenger, the director of the School of Music at Ohio State, previously served as the Associate Director of Bands at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Butterfield was killed in a two-vehicle crash Oct. 26 near 10th and Arapahoe streets, according to Lincoln police.According to a police report, Butterfield was a passenger in a car that was making a left turn onto the northbound lanes of 10th Street, when it was hit by a Dodge Charger. A witness said the Charger was traveling southbound on 10th Street at a high rate of speed when it hit the other vehicle.UNL confirmed Butterfield was a junior accounting major from Norfolk. Two other band members were hurt in the crash.

With the two schools' football programs playing Saturday in Columbus, the Ohio State marching band honored a member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln marching band who recently died in a car crash.

During the band's halftime performance, the Ohio State band spelled out Tyler Butterfield's first name. William Ballenger, the director of the School of Music at Ohio State, previously served as the Associate Director of Bands at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.


Butterfield was killed in a two-vehicle crash Oct. 26 near 10th and Arapahoe streets, according to Lincoln police.



According to a police report, Butterfield was a passenger in a car that was making a left turn onto the northbound lanes of 10th Street, when it was hit by a Dodge Charger. A witness said the Charger was traveling southbound on 10th Street at a high rate of speed when it hit the other vehicle.

UNL confirmed Butterfield was a junior accounting major from Norfolk. Two other band members were hurt in the crash.