This is the third in a series of articles profiling the 2013 inductees into the Butler Area School District Athletic Hall of Fame.BUTLER TWP — Terry Rettig considers himself a lucky man.The 1966 Butler graduate rushed for a then-school record 1,180 yards in 1965, scoring 12 touchdowns. His 114 career points scored continue to rank high on the Golden Tornado football all-time list.But Rettig doesn't feel lucky because of all that.“It's the group of guys I grew up with and played with ... Terry Hanratty, the Saul brothers, Dick Quigley, George Kelly, I could go on and on,” Rettig said.“We all hung out together, played sandlot ball together, I mean, everything. And growing up behind my brother Bill — he was my biggest role model all through those years.“I just fell into all of those teams. Believe me, I was very, very fortunate,” he added.Now Rettig is falling into the Butler Area School District Athletic Hall of Fame. He will be one of six individuals comprising the HOF's fourth induction class Sept. 20, prior to the Tornado's home football game with North Hills.The inductees will be honored by a reception in the high school cafeteria from 5 to 6:30 p.m. They will be honored on the field at 6:45 p.m.“This is just a great thing. I don't know what else to say,” Rettig said of the Hall of Fame induction. “My wife and I have been together since seventh grade at Butler and we moved back to Butler upon retirement to help take care of our parents.”Rettig married Corrine Hutchinson, who was captain of the sequinettes at Butler while he played football there. Rettig was inducted into the now Butler County Sports Hall of Fame in 1978.He became an all-WPIAL and all-state football player with the Tornado. A three-year letterman, he rushed for 920 yards and seven touchdowns as a junior and broke his brother Bill's single-season record the following year.“We still laugh and tease each other about that,” Rettig said. “Bill and I always did sports together. We ran the 880 and mile relay together in track.”Rettig lettered four years as a sprinter on the Butler track team and was prepared to follow in his older brother's footsteps to Penn State.He wound up at Vanderbilt instead.“I spent a year at Valley Forge Military Academy — a year in my life I'll never forget — and was home for the holidays when one of the coaches from Vanderbilt came to visit,” Rettig recalled.“I wound up taking another visit down there. The coaching staff was fantastic. They had a super head coach in Bill Pace and I wound up going to Vandy.”And shining there.Rettig played linebacker for the Commodores, was one of the key players in an upset of Alabama his junior year, and earned the Wade Mooney Award as outstanding senior on the football team his final season.“We had the smallest stadium in the SEC, but it was always sold out and we got to play the likes of Ole Miss, Alabama, Tennessee ... It was an incredible experience,” Rettig said.“My wife and I always went to the tapings of the Johnny Cash Show at the Grand Opry in Nashville. We loved it down there.”After being teammates with future NFL players Hanratty, Rich and Ron Saul in high school, Rettig played with longtime Dallas Cowboy Pat Toomay and eventual Chicago Bear Bob Asher in college.”He worked as an engineer for Armco for 30 years, spending many of those years in Chicago.“I had season tickets to the Bears games since 1971, from Gale Sayers to Walter Payton,” Rettig said.Rettig is looking forward to reliving high school memories.“We all had such a good bond,” he recalled. “Playing for your neighborhood team in Midget football ... Those games were as intense and hard-hitting as high school and college games were to me.”