Dick Kazmaier played college football as a halfback for the Princeton Tigers from 1949 through 1951 and was the winner of the 1951 Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, and the AP Male Athlete of the Year.
11 Facts About Dick Kazmaier
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Dick Kazmaier graduated from Maumee High School in Ohio in 1948.
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Dick Kazmaier played football, basketball, track and field, baseball and golf earning a letter each year in each sport.
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Dick Kazmaier was recruited by 23 colleges, most offering full scholarships.
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Dick Kazmaier was named Ivy League Football Player of the Decade in 1960 and Time magazine ran his picture on its cover.
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Dick Kazmaier was the last Heisman Trophy winner to play for an Ivy League institution.
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Dick Kazmaier graduated from Princeton in 1952 after completing a senior thesis titled "The Company and the Union: A Case Study".
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Dick Kazmaier received the National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award.
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Dick Kazmaier donated his Heisman Trophy to Maumee High School, where it is displayed inside a glass case in the main hallway.
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Dick Kazmaier's daughter, the late Patty Kazmaier-Sandt, was an All-Ivy member of the Princeton women's ice hockey team who died in 1990 at the age of 28 from a rare blood disease.
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Dick Kazmaier died on August 1,2013, in Boston from heart and lung disease at the age of 82.