Kenneth Fairman

Roy Kenneth Fairman, known as Kenneth Fairman, was an American college sportsman, basketball coach, athletics administrator and local politician who lived from 1912 to 1994. He coached the men's basketball team at Princeton University from 1935 to 1938, a three season tenure in which the team won 25 games and lost 38. He then moved into administration and served as Princeton's athletic director from 1941 to 1972, with a break during the Second World War when he served as an officer in the United States Army. Away from the university he entered public life and was mayor of Princeton Township, New Jersey, from 1959 to 1963. His career joins college basketball coaching, three decades of running a major university sports programme and municipal office in the town that hosted it.