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...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...
...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...
...Kazmaier brothers have followed and fostered Dick's athletic career with expert eyes, though neither they nor Dick's high-school coach ever dreamed they had an All-America performer in their backyard. Dick's father, his foremost fan, who constantly admonishes his son not "to get a swelled head," hops into the family's 1951 Chevrolet almost every weekend and drives the 600-odd miles from Maumee to watch his son play...
...good reason he hasn't got time is football. Though Princeton is limited to only two hours' practice a day ("If they can't learn the stuff in that time, they're not bright enough for me," says Caldwell), for the next two weeks Kazmaier & Co. will be busy young men. With the Harvard game behind them, this week they go after another mark against Yale: Princeton's fifth straight "Big Three" title. If they win that one, they will break the record of four in a row that Percy Haughton's Harvard elevens...
After the Dartmouth game, a week from Saturday, Kazmaier expects to give up football for good. Next season, somebody else may wear No. 42. Professional football? "Only if I get a pretty fabulous offer [i.e., $15,000 for four months'work]. But I've got the Army to think about after graduation. These are pretty uncertain times to be making plans far in advance." Young Mr. Kazmaier believes in touchdowns, and means to make them-but on any particular play he'll settle for his seven yards...