Staś Maliszewski (born Stanislaw MaliszewskiJohn Underwood

'' Sports Illustrated'', November 15, 1965. ''pol.'' Stanisław Maliszewski; August 1944 in Poland) is a Polish American former football linebacker. He played college football for Princeton from 1963 through 1965, and was an All-American in

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and

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. He was a Consensus All-American (1965). He was drafted in the sixth round of the

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by the

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. Born in August 1944 in German-occupied Poland, Maliszewski and his family (his parents, grandparents, and two brothers) soon became refugees, fleeing ahead of the advancing Soviet army. They wound up in a

displaced persons camp A refugee camp is a temporary Human settlement, settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for interna ...

in West Germany and in 1951 came to the United States. After processing through Ellis Island, they settled in

Davenport, Iowa Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States. Located along the Mississippi River on the eastern border of the state, it is the largest of the Quad Cities, a metropolitan area with a population of 384,324 and a ...

, where they were sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church. As a high school football player at Assumption High School in Davenport (where one of his classmates was future Miami Dolphins receiver

Karl Noonan Karl Paul Noonan (born February 17, 1944) is a former collegiate and professional football wide receiver. As a high school football player at Assumption High School in Davenport (where one of his classmates was future Princeton All-American ...

) Maliszewski was heavily recruited by Notre Dame, but in his senior year, Jim Leach, a Davenport resident and Princeton sophomore home on Christmas break, recruited him for Princeton."From Poland to Princeton"
'' Princeton Alumni Weekly'', September 9, 1998. A 1965 '' Sports Illustrated'' story described Maliszewski as "a sensitive, deeply religious young man who, Princeton coaches say, gets nasty only when he removes his two front teeth before a game, and then he is about the nastiest thing ever to draw a pro scout to a Princeton football game". At Princeton he majored in philosophy, and his senior thesis was called "The Existence of God in Hume and Kant". He attended

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. He founded Gateway Asset Management, a pension marketing firm based in Chicago. In 1998, as an independent director of the Yacktman Fund, a mutual fund, he was a leader of a widely reported challenge to the fund's management. The fund's shareholders ultimately voted to support the fund's manager and the dissident directors were removed, but the controversy influenced the

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in its development of new rules adopted in 2001 to protect independent fund directors. In 2012, he received a lifetime achievement award from Fund Director Intelligence for his contribution to mutual fund governance.Hillary Jackson
"Former Yacktman Directors to be Feted for Lifetime Achievement"
, ''Fund Director Intelligence'', January 20, 2012. Maliszewski was the president (and later chairman) of the Princeton Football Association. He is married to Julia Armstrong Jitkoff and has four children by a previous marriage and two step-children.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maliszewski, Stas 1944 births Living people American people of Polish descent Sportspeople from Davenport, Iowa Players of American football from Iowa Polish players of American football American football linebackers Princeton Tigers football players All-American college football players Harvard Business School alumni