Raymond “Butch” Morse (December 5, 1910 – May 22, 1995) is in the Oregon sports history archives as a football player and coach who advanced to the NFL.
Morse graduated from Portland's Benson Polytechnic High School in 1931. He played four years of football and was All-City and team captain and MVP of Benson’s 1928 city championship team. Raymond also ran track, played baseball and was the leading scorer for the school’s basketball team in 1930.
Morse attended the University of Oregon, where he was a two-time All-Pacific Coast Conference end, and an All-American in his senior year of 1934, when he was also team co-captain. He played in the East-West Shrine game. The 1933 squad featuring Morse and fellow OSHOF member Mike Mikulak finished 9-1 and only allowed 17 points the entire season.
Morse signed with the Detroit Lions in 1935; the year the Lions won their first NFL Championship. Morse played for the Lions for five seasons with a detour to the old American Football League in 1939. During World War II Butch was drafted into the United States Army Air Corps. In 1944, he was an assistant coach for the Air Corps’ Randolph Field Flyers in the 1944 Cotton Bowl Classic, in which the Flyers tied the heavily favored Texas Longhorns, 7–7.
He returned to Oregon as an assistant coach at Oregon State on Kip Taylor's staff in 1951.
Butch Morse is a member of the PIL Hall of Fame and University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame.