Word: kazmaier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Year, takes the middle, or Caldwell, view. He thinks that Princeton, on any given day, could hold its own with any team in the nation. But meeting powerhouse teams week after week would be another matter. Princeton is a small college, with a small squad-and only one Kazmaier. Says Caldwell: "Our schedule is easy, hard-easy, hard. In the Big Ten, for example, it's boom! boom! boom! We haven't the depth to stand that...
...agreement Harvard, Yale and Princeton exchange information on all their varsity football players. Competitive bidding, in the form of scholarship offers, is frowned on. Each athlete must fill out a form showing the source of his finances; if any extracurricular subsidy crops up, the player is declared ineligible. Dick Kazmaier is a good example of how well that system works...
...Enough. Princeton's director of admissions recalls his first meeting with the 155-lb. youngster who was to write a new chapter of Princeton football history: "Kazmaier had been recommended as an all-round high school athlete, and I didn't know what to think when I saw that peanut walk in." He wrote a kindly comment on Dick's card: "Probably not big enough for college athletics." But Princeton was glad to have Kazmaier: it was interested in him for other reasons...
...want," says Princeton's director of student aid, "is the one who's going to run the Community Chest in his home town some day ... We want him to be in the top 8% of his class, to be class president, editor of the school paper . . ." Kazmaier fits the pattern: his high school grades were mostly A's and he had been president of his class and of Hi-Y. He got his scholarship -a $400 grant, which falls $200 short of Princeton's tuition fee; he lost it for one term last year because...