Greg Brown, Harry Leyland, George “Red” Slater, Bob Zavacky.

If the Butler Area Midget Football League had its own Mount Rushmore, that would be it.

“This organization has been around for 68 years,” BAMFL president Chris Morrow said. “Without those four guys, it wouldn’t be here.

“Current and future youth football players in Butler need to know those names.”

Now they will.

The organization’s board of directors recently had a sign put up on the locker room and equipment storage facility at Memorial Park. The sign renames the building the Brown-Leyland-Slater-Zavacky Field House.

Greg Brown, who died in 2005, spent 28 years in the BAMFL as a player, coach, secretary-treasurer and financial planner.

Harry Leyland coached East Butler and South Side for more than 50 years, winning 10 league titles.

“Red” Slater coached for 62 years, many of those in the BAMFL with Meridian and Center Township. He won four straight championships with Center Township and died in 2009.

Bob Zavacky is the Butler varsity coach now in the United Youth Football League, guiding the team to a 6-3 record and berth in the UYFL semifinals. He has coached off and on in the BAMFL for more than 30 years.

“You just don’t see guys putting in the time and dedication like this anymore,” Morrow said. “People need to know about them.”

“It’s an honor,” Zavacky said. “Harry and I became great friends over the years. He, Red and Greg ... You can’t even measure their contributions.”

Gloria Yaracs, Slater’s daughter, recalled going to the Meridian games to watch her brothers, Gary and Gavon, play for her father’s team.

“He even coached the Lyndora Copperheads — and that’s going way back,” Yaracs said.

“Dad just loved working with kids. When football season was over, he coached basketball and baseball. The power line ran from our house to the ball field in Meridian. That’s how they lit that field.”

Yaracs smiled as she looked at the sign.

“He (Slater) would be so proud to see his name on there,” she said. “It’s pretty cool.”

Greg Brown’s son, Travis, remembered the pride of the Penn Street Cardinals and “how everyone in our family played there.”

His father was no exception.

“He lived on Penn Street his whole life,” Travis Brown said. “He played there, coached there. My uncle Don played there and went on to help coach the (St. Louis) Cardinals in the NFL.”

A banker by trade, Greg Brown set up a financial plan that cured the BAMFL’s monetary woes.

“He got that whole thing straightened out,” Brown said.

Morrow referred to Leyland as “a legend whose whole life has been helping and coaching kids.”

The BAMFL had 400 players in the league a decade ago. It had 120 players participating this year, its fourth as a member of the UYFL.

“The program has gone in a different direction, but it’s a positive direction,” Zavacky said. “We’re gaining more success on the field and that will hopefully translate into more interest from more kids.

“We like where we’re headed. I think Red and Greg would be excited about it, too.”