The man known as the “Voice of the Buffs,” whose voice decades of University of Colorado sports fans recognized and celebrated, has died.
C. F. Alan Cass, a longtime Boulder resident and CU fixture, died Wednesday at the age of 77.
Cass was the public address announcer for CU men’s basketball games starting in 1965 and CU football games starting in 1982, as well as various other sporting events, including women’s basketball games, baseball games and track and field events.
After the CU men’s basketball home finale against Nebraska in 2011, he turned in his microphoneto be a full-time fan of the university’s sports teams.
“Once he became a fan, he could hoot and holler,” Casey Cass said of his father on Thursday. “He’d scream and yell for the team.”
Alan Cass also was the driving force behind the creation of CU’s Glenn Miller Archive, a repository dedicated to the famed bandleader and America’s big band era. He served as its curator between 1969 and 2015.
