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Ken Fairman
Ken Fairman (College athletics. Born, Spring Valley, NY, Feb. 23, 1912; died, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 8, 1994.) Princeton’s first official athletic director, R. Kenneth Fairman succeeded Asa Bushnell as graduate manager in 1938. Fairman had been a football, basketball, and lacrosse player at Princeton. He was also basketball coach from 1935-38 (25-38). Fairman became the official […]
Asa Bushnell
Asa Bushnell (College athletics. Born, Springfield, OH, Feb. 1, 1900; died, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 22, 1975.) Resigning as graduate manager of athletics at Princeton in late 1937, Asa Smith Bushnell became the first director of the Central Office for Eastern Collegiate Athletics, which came into existence Jan. 1, 1938. What then was essentially a clearinghouse for […]
