Dick Vidmer

Richard F. Vidmer (December 24, 1944 — April 3, 2022) was an American football player. He attended University of Michigan, where he played college football as a quarterback for the Wolverines football teams from 1965 to 1967.

Early life Vidmer's father played college football as a guard at Villanova University in the 1930s. The younger Vidmer was a native of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and grew up in western Pennsylvania, which Vidmer described as "a peculiar place, where you have a lot of small towns within 10-15 miles of each other, and football is simply the sport throughout the area." He attended Hempfield Area High School, where he was one of the finest prep quarterbacks ever produced in the State of Pennsylvania. He was also president of the student council and had grades that won him admission to Harvard. In the opening game of the 1966 season, he threw for 258 passing yards, a Michigan single-game record. His total of 117 pass completions in 1966 set a new Michigan single-season record. In his three years at Michigan, he completed 187 of 382 passes for 2,455 yards, 11 touchdowns, and 20 interceptions.

Vidmer received three degrees from Michigan, a bachelor's degree in economics, a master's degree in Soviet government and politics (1972), and a Ph.D. in Soviet management theory (1978).

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Later life Vidmer later taught at the University of Virginia and served as an advisor to U.S. Congressman Donald A. Bailey, a former Michigan football teammate. Vidmer was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1983 and was forced to retire in 1999.