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...after Princeton's 53-15 drubbing of Cornell, even cautious Charlie Caldwell had to admit that it looked as if he were heading for another perfect season. In a spectacular one-man show, Kazmaier ripped through the undefeated Cornell line, averaging seven yards a crack, completed a phenomenal 15 out of 17 passes and personally accounted for 360 yards gained-70% of Princeton's total and more-by half as much again-than the entire Cornell backfield...
Reporting that game, the New York Times's Allison Danzig called Kazmaier's performance "one of the greatest passing exhibitions ever seen on any gridiron since the introduction of the pass in 1906." The Herald Tribune decided that "Princeton's all-around operations on offense and defense and Dick Kazmaier's transcendent solo deeds against Cornell were the peak performances, team and individual, of a football coach's lifetime." Cornell's veteran coach, Lefty James, said simply, with the disarming candor of the defeated: "The greatest back I've ever seen...
...last week Princeton grads were earnestly stacking Kazmaier up 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...
...practice field, under the orange & black helmet that adds an anonymizing grimness to his features, Kazmaier shows more of the fussiness of the perfectionist than the jet-flaming drive of a great halfback. But the flame is building up: it appears on Saturdays. On the first play from scrimmage he is so tense that Quarterback Stevens has standing instructions not to let him handle the ball.* Once the warmup of the first play is over, Kazmaier takes...
Poised in his tailback spot, Kazmaier provides the explosive charge that makes the Princeton attack the fearsome weapon it is. The defending team is never sure what Kazmaier is going to do: run, pass or quick kick. He is effective at all three. His running has no pounding power, no blinding speed. But a trail of sprawling, frustrated tacklers attests to a swivel-hipped shiftiness, a ball-bearing glide that enable him to change pace or direction without losing stride. Judd Timm, the Princeton backfield coach, an ex-trackman at Illinois, describes Kazmaier's running style: "He runs...