Word: kazmaier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop a squad of fleet backs and the deadeye passing of Cornell Quarterback Rocco Calvo, whose 61% completion record was the nation's best. Cornell, ranked No. 12, had a theoretically easier job: to concentrate on one man. But the man was triple-threat Dick Kazmaier, an All-America back last year and a veteran of Princeton's 1950 championship team...
...most versatile exhibitions of passing, running, blocking and kicking ever seen, Kazmaier put on a dazzling one-man show that turned a tight first-half game into a second-half rout. He threw 17 passes, all on the run, and completed an astonishing 15 for a total of 236 yards. He carried the ball 18 times and averaged 7 yards a crack. He personally accounted for 70% of Princeton's gains. He threw three touchdown passes, ran for two more (and added two points for Cornell on a second-half safety). And, when the devastating Princeton offense was slowed...
Cornell's Last Chance. Princeton's first score came on a sustained drive of 72 yards in twelve plays, three of them bull's-eye passes by Kazmaier. Cornell bounced right back with a 34-yard touchdown pass by Calvo. But the score was Cornell's last real chance to stay in the game...
Stress in the practice was placed on a half-hour defensive scrimmage, with freshmen running Tiger plays against a tentative first defense. Running and passing from a Princeton single wing, with fullback and tailback parallel to the line, freshman Joe Conzleman played Dick Kazmaier in a fairly successful series of plays...
Nason also noted that Princeton's Dick Kazmaler was the greatest back he has seen in the past three years, is constantly called "All-American Dick Kazmaier," and has never been picked to an All-American team. Kazmaler completed 15 of 17 passes Saturday, and, running and passing, accounted for 360 yards of the Tigers' total yardage gain...