Richard W. Kazmaier Jr. ’52

Dick died on Aug. 1, 2013, in Boston.

He entered Princeton from Maumee (Ohio) High School, where he was a five-sport athlete. At Princeton, he majored in psychology, joined Cottage Club, and played varsity football and basketball.

Dick was an exceptional football player. An essential cog as tailback in two undefeated seasons, he won Princeton’s Poe Award, became Heisman Trophy winner in 1951, the Associated Press’s athlete of the year, and was featured on Time’s cover. We became known as “Kazmaier’s class.”

After Harvard Business School and three years as a Naval officer, Dick formed his own successful sports-marketing and consulting firm. He served two administrations as chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.

Dick and Jay Sherrerd spent many hours raising top dollars for Princeton’s Annual Giving. He was reunion chairman at our 25th and was elected an alumni trustee.

Throughout his life, Dick remained the modest and self-effacing comrade we all knew on campus. A true team player, he once said, “Football is a consummate team sport. Nobody does anything of substance unless they do it with everybody else on the team.”

The class extends sympathy to Patti, his wife of 60 years; daughters Kathy, Kristen, Michele, Kimberly ’77, and Susan ’81; 13 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Daughter Patty ’86 died in 1990.