Robert E. Kelley

Robert Edwin "Bob" Kelley was an American lacrosse and football player who became a United States Air Force fighter pilot and lieutenant general. Born in Albany, New York, on November 3, 1933, he was co-captain of the Rutgers University football team and captain of its lacrosse team in his senior year, and took his degree in June 1956 before being commissioned in the Air Force. From 1964 to 1967 he worked in the Air Force Academy athletics department, where he coached varsity lacrosse, listed as its first varsity coach, and skiing. He flew F-100, F-104 and F-4 fighters, completed 119 combat missions in Vietnam, and served as the ninth Superintendent of the Air Force Academy from 1981 for two years before retiring in 1986. He later sat on the board of the Lacrosse Foundation and Hall of Fame, was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Rutgers Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994, and won an age-group National Squash Championship in 1999. He died on February 5, 2021.