Pat Richter
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| Date of birth | September 9, 1941 |
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| Place of birth | Madison, Wisconsin |
| Career information | |
| Position(s) |
End Wide receiver Punter |
| College | Wisconsin |
| AFL draft |
1963 / Round: 10 / Pick: 78 (by the Denver Broncos) |
| NFL draft | 1963 / Round: 1 / Pick: 7 |
| Career history | |
| As player | |
| 1963–1970 | Washington Redskins |
| Career stats | |
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Hugh Vernon "Pat" Richter (born September 9, 1941) is the former University of Wisconsin–Madison athletic director and American football player. He was responsible for hiring Barry Alvarez from Notre Dame in 1990 as head football coach, restoring the Badgers football program to national prominence. He also hired basketball coaches Dick Bennett and Bo Ryan, both of whom reached the "Final Four" of the NCAA Tournament.
Richter was a nine-time letterman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (the last person to earn such a distinction in school history). He lettered three times each in football, basketball, and baseball. He was also an All-American end twice. Richter set a Rose Bowl record with 11 catches for 163 yards in the 1963 game vs. No. 1-rated USC Trojans.
He was a first round draft pick of the Washington Redskins in the 1963 NFL Draft and went on to play eight seasons in Washington.
Richter returned to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as athletic director in 1989 after 17 years service as Vice President of Personnel at Oscar Mayer Foods Corp., recruited by then-chancellor Donna Shalala. He inherited a program in disarray, with outmoded facilities, struggling teams, and a deficit of $2.1 million.
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