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...against Old Nassau's football immortals-Garry LeVan, Jake Slagle, San White, Hector Cowan and Edgar Allan Poe, quarterback on the '89 team.- Undergraduates, howling gleefully in the stands, were comparing Kazmaier to players they had never seen-Tommy Harmon, Red Grange, Chris Cagle. On the record, Kaz ranks with the best of today's amateurs: Tennessee's Hank Lauricella, Illinois' Johnny Karras, Southern California's Frank Gifford. And on the record, for the second year in a row, he is an inevitable choice for All-America honors...
...sharpshooting passer, and he has the rare ability of throwing on the dead run. His jump passes (i.e., short gainers) are thrown "hard," of necessity: he has to get them off fast. The deeper ones, depending on the situation, are sometimes floaters. His biggest asset is accuracy. "Kaz always hits 'em on the back of the head," says, admiring Coach Caldwell...
Kazmaier's kicking is also a source of satisfaction to Caldwell: "We have boys who can kick the ball farther-though Kaz can boot it 60 yards-but none so dependable. We want high, accurate kicks so our tacklers can get underneath the ball." And here again Kazmaier gets them off fast, and has to: for "protection" time he is allowed only 1.5 seconds...
Boom! Boom! Boom! A fortnight ago, after a rugged game against Brown-a game which Kazmaier won, 12-0, with touchdown sprints of 13 and 61 yards on a field piebald with mud and snow-Trainer Eddie Zanfrini gave Caldwell the casualty report, ending with: "My gosh, Kaz is black and blue all over." But Dick is durable. In three years of varsity competition, he has missed only one sequence of plays (two minutes) when he was needed. That time he was knocked cold...
...went out for freshman football, of course; but as a 155-lb. freshman substitute, Dick got lost in the shuffle until the final game, when he earned a starting role. In spring training, when Caldwell first got a good look at him, he figured that Kaz was too light for varsity football. Not until the Rutgers* game, his sophomore year, did Kazmaier demonstrate that he was tough enough to stand the gaff. "From then on," recalls Coach Caldwell, "I knew we had something." And from then on, Dick was a starting regular...