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Dick Kazmaier Papers

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Kazmaier

Dick Kazmaier was a Princeton University student and football player from 1948 to 1952. Born Richard Kazmaier Jr. on November 23, 1930 in Maumee, Ohio, he attended Princeton University from 1948 to 1952, playing football all four years. He was part of the undefeated teams of 1950 and 1951, and in 1951 won the Heisman Trophy. Though he was recruited by the NFL, Kazmaier did not play football after his undergraduate years. In 1966, Kazmaier was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame. Princeton retired his jersey number, #42, in 2008.

He was the father of Patty Kazmaier-Sandt ('86), member of the Princeton women's ice hockey team.

The Dick Kazmaier Papers include Kazmaier's course materials (class notes, exams, and thesis research material), as well as football team photographs and award certificates, and a scapbook of newspaper clipplings from 1949 to 1953.

The papers were donated by Patricia Kazmaier in January 2016, with a later addition in October 2016.

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This collection was processed by Phoebe Nobles in 2016. Finding aid written by Phoebe Nobles in 2016.

The addition was processed and the Finding aid updated by Michelle Peralta in 2018.

Plaques were transferred to the Princeton Athletics Department.

Publisher
University Archives
Finding Aid Date
2016
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Box 1 and portion of Box 2 contain Kazmaier's course notebooks and lab books, including some examinations, for undergraduate work between 1949 and 1952. It contains Kazmaier's two junior papers in Psychology from 1951, his research materials for his senior thesis, and handwritten manuscript of the thesis ("The Company and the Union: A Case Study"). The box also contains a Princeton Calendar pamphlet publication naming Kazmaier as Man of the Week, a press release from Princeton Public Relations on the varsity season of 1950, and a list of undergraduates eligible for upperclass clubs in February 1950.

Arrangement

Folders in chronological order to the extent possible, with undated material at the front of box.

Physical Description

2 boxes

Art 303 notebook, test booklets, and loose notes, 1951-1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Math 114 notebook, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Miscellaneous class notes and exams, 1951-1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Economics 201 notebook, 1949-1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Biology I notebook, 1949-1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Biology I lab book, 1949-1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Classics 318 notebook, 1952. 1 box.
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1 box

History 202 notebook, 1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology 402 notebook, 1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Biology II notebook 1, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology 311 notebook, 1951-1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Economics 207 (Accounting) notebook, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology 307 notebook, 1951-1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology 310 notebook, 1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology 301 notebook, 1950-1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Biology II notebook 2, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology 202 notebook, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology 201 notebook, 1949-1950. 1 box.
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1 box

The Princeton Calendar; Man of the Week, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Graduate Council Committee on Athletics; P.U. Department of Public Relations press release AND list of undergraduates eligible for election to upperclass clubs Feb. 1950, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology 301 lab notes, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Math 103 notebook, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

"Fundamental Aspects of Industrial Psychology" (junior paper), 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Papers for Politics 312 and Psychology 307, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

"Functioning of the Personnel Department of the Hobart Manufacturing Company Troy, Ohio", 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

"Summer Work Data" Libbey-Owens-Ford Personnel - Supervisory Trainee, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Libbey-Owens-Ford research material, 1952. 1 box.
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1 box

"The Company and the Union: A Case Study" (senior thesis), 1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology lab notebook pages (from 3-ring binder), undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Various notes and papers, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Psychology 303 notebook, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Independent Junior Work papers, 1950-1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Records of laboratory exercises (Accounting), 1950-1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Art I term paper and test booklets, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Art II notebook and loose notes, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

"Termopane: A Product of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company" paper for Engineering 425, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Politics 312 notebook and loose notes, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Arrangement

In basic chronological order, to the extent possible, lying flat in boxes.

Scope and Contents

Box 3 contains 13 oversized photographs and awards: Princeton football team photographs from 1949 to 1951; Kazmaier's Varsity Award of 1952, certificates for two All-American football teams in 1951, a Charles Caldwell memorial print, an AP newsfeatures "Talented Tiger" illustration featuring Kazmaier, and a laminated poster for a much later PU salute shared with Bill Bradley (undated).

Physical Description

1 box

Princeton University 1949 football team photograph, 1949. 1 box.
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1 box

Princeton University 1949 football team photograph, 1949. 1 box.
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1 box

Princeton University 1950 football team photograph, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Princeton University 1950 football team photograph, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Princeton University 1950 undefeated football team montage, 1950. 1 box.
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1 box

Princeton University 1951 undefeated football team montage, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Princeton University 1951 football team photograph, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

All American Board of Football designation to All American Football Team, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Collier's 1951 All-America Footbal Team certificate, 1951. 1 box.
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1 box

Princeton University Council on Athletics Varsity Award (Basketball 1951; Football 1949, 1950, 1951), 1952. 1 box.
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1 box

Charles Caldwell memorial print, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

"Talented Tiger" illustration featuring Kazmaier; AP newsfeatures, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Princeton Athletics salutes Bill Bradley '65 and Dick Kazmaier '52 laminated poster, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Miscellaneous photographs, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Class of 1952 50th reunion photograph, 2002. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Arrangement

In basic chronological order, to the extent possible.

Scope and Contents

Portion of Box 2 contains copies of Kazmaier's sports column, "Dick Kazmaier's Football," as well as correspondence and ephemera related to his life and career after Princeton.

Box 4 contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and ephemera primarily related to Kazmaier's football career at Princeton.

Box 5 contains issues of various publications featuring Kazmaier including "Life," "Sports Illustrated," "Look" magazine, "Collier's" magazine, and the cover of "Time" magazine.

Physical Description

3 boxes

"Dick Kazmaier's Football" articles, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Correspondence, 1958. 1 box.
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1 box

Event programs and ephemera, 1958-1967. 1 box.
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1 box

Newspaper clippings, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1949-1953. 1 box.
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1 box

Various publications, 1951-1961. 1 box.
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1 box

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