Alexander Stanley Kroll (November 23, 1937 – December 17, 2024) was an American professional football player and an advertising agency executive at Young & Rubicam, where he was CEO for ten years.
He played on Yale's varsity football team, but a physical argument with a young associate professor got Kroll expelled during his sophomore year.
[2] Kroll was a 1962 player for the American Football League's New York Titans (later the Jets), playing center and offensive tackle.
He developed a program called "Play It Smart", which encourages football coaches to set academic goals for their students.
On December 23, 1961, Alex Kroll married Phyllis Benford, whose father was a vice president at Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, in a well-publicized ceremony in Miami Beach, Florida.