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...orange-and-black jersey No. 42 was the nation's No. 1 college football player and the choice of every pro team (TIME cover, Nov. 19, 1951). Having passed, punted and rushed the Tigers to 22 straight victories-still a record-Heisman Trophy Winner Richard William Kazmaier neatly straight-armed a pro draft ("With only one league, there was never that much money no matter how good you were"), opted for Harvard Business School. Now 35, his hair thinning slightly and his weight about ten pounds over his 171-lb. playing trim, Kazmaier figures he made the right choice...
After two years of running a string of 21 southeastern bowling alleys, Kazmaier joined sports-minded A.M.F. in 1962. He figures that football is fine training for corporate life because in both fields "You fight a lot of hard battles and you don't win unless you're smarter and tougher than the opposition." Businessman Kazmaier is "only a social athlete now-golf and tennis and that...
...through college before the whole twanging subject loomed so large. He cared more about sports. His father, an M.D. on the Princeton University faculty, is physician to the U.S. Olympics teams. At Princeton, McPhee himself roomed with "the greatest football player" in the U.S. that year, Dick Kazmaier, and when TIME put Kazmaier on the cover in 1951, McPhee, as one of his roommates, was subjected to the kind of TIME interviewing he has later inflicted on a succession of show-business celebrities. Later, in a postgraduate year at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, England, McPhee was elected captain...
...well over 200 lbs. The back to watch with Kirkland is Lee Raitz, tailback in the Deacons' single-wing attack. This formation is no surprise, since Kirkland coach Tom Morris played out of it for two years as an all-Ivy tailback at Princeton in the days after Dick Kazmaier...
...exicting minutes in the 1951 contest, Harvard and sophomore quarterback Dick Clasby held the Princeton eleven, led by all-American Dick Kazmaier, to a tie. With one minute left in the first half, however, Tiger lineman Vic Bihl picked off a Crimson aerial and scored the touchdown that broke the varsity's morale. Princeton roared on to a 54-13 triumph...