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Bud Krause played quarterback during Coach Fracassa’s final season at Royal Oak Shrine, a year when Coach engineered one of his many classic upset wins, a 14-7 victory over Gary Danielson-led Dearborn Divine Child, the defending Goodfellow Game Detroit City champions. Coach Fracassa fulfilled his destiny by accepting the Brother Rice head football coaching job the next year. Bud went on to play college basketball at Arizona Western and Wayne State, where he graduated with a journalism degree in 1973. He worked as a reporter for the Daily Tribune in Royal Oak for four years, then began a career in advertising. He owned afaKrause Advertising until 2024. Having kept a close relationship with Coach Fracassa over the years, Bud embarked on writing the book “Fracassa, the Man, the Times and the Teams” in 2021 and published the book in August 2023. He co-authored “Fracassa” with Dr. Thomas Martin, Bud’s teammate and captain of that final Shrine team in 1968. Also contributing to the book were Michael Coughlin, a 1972 Brother Rice grad, who remains the team’s statistician today, and Jerome Malczewski, a 1981 Brother Rice and West Point grad, who worked on the Rice football staff for decades. Coughlin penned the emotional final pages of the book. And it was Malczewski who convinced Vince Lombardi Jr. to write the book’s foreword. Bud lives in Sylvan Lake with his wife, Kelli, son Cody James, and daughter Daryn Makena.