Alex Kroll was captain of the football team and ranked second in his class academically, Alex chose to attend Yale University on an academic scholarship.
13 Facts About Alex Kroll
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Alex Kroll played on Yale's varsity football team, but a physical argument with a young associate professor got Kroll expelled during his sophomore year.
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Alex Kroll enlisted in the US Army, serving two years in the military police and finished his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University.
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Alex Kroll was a 1962 player for the American Football League's New York Titans, playing center and offensive tackle.
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Alex Kroll rose rapidly through the ranks in just his first seven years, becoming Executive Vice-President and Creative Director at the agency in 1970 at the age of 33.
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Alex Kroll was Chairman both for the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Advertising Council, the organization which produces most of the important public service advertising in the United States.
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Alex Kroll stepped down from Young and Rubicam in 1994, but still kept busy after his retirement, as a senior adviser to the Bill Bradley Presidential Exploratory Committee in 1998, which was formed by former US Senate Democrat Bill Bradley of New Jersey.
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Alex Kroll developed a program called "Play It Smart", which encourages football coaches to set academic goals for their students.
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Alex Kroll was featured in the 2009 Showtime program Full Color Football.
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On December 23,1961, Alex Kroll married Phyllis Benford, whose father was a vice president at Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, in a well-publicized ceremony in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Alex Kroll lived next door to his daughter and two of his grandchildren until his death on December 17,2024, at the age of 87.
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Alex Kroll was a recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, the NCAA Silver Medal for Excellence, the Walter Camp Distinguished American Award, and the American Jewish Committee's National Human Relations Award.
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Alex Kroll was a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Advertising Hall of Fame.