Dick Kazmaier, American football player and winner of the 1951 Heisman Trophy
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Patty Kazmaier Award, award for the top American female college ice hockey player, named for Patty Kazmaier-Sandt
At Pure Strength 1987, a competition held in place of the absent World's Strongest Man competition of that year on the grounds of Huntly Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Geoff Capes, Bill Kazmaier and Jón Páll matched up to crown the strongest man on the planet.
The Tigers won their last national championship in 1950 when Dick Kazmaier, the 1951 Heisman Trophy winner, was a junior.