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UW athletics: Richter honored by Big Ten Club of Southern California : Sports

Pat Richter, the star receiver for the University of Wisconsin football team who went on to rejuvenate the Badgers? fortunes as athletic director, has been named the Person of the Year by the Big Ten Club of Southern California. Richter was honored Tuesday at a banquet at the Wrigley Mansion in Pasadena, Calif., where in the 1963 Rose Bowl he set records by catching 11 passes for 163 yards in the Badgers? dramatic 42-37 loss to Southern California.