Richard F. Vidmer (December 24, 1944 — April 3, 2022) was a former American football player.

Vidmer's father played college football as a guard at Villanova University in the 1930s.

The younger Vidmer was a native of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and grew up in western Pennsylvania, which Vidmer described as "a peculiar place, where you have a lot of small towns within 10-15 miles of each other, and football is simply the sport throughout the area.

"[1] He attended Hempfield Area High School, where he was one of the finest prep quarterbacks ever produced in the State of Pennsylvania.

I visited Harvard and Princeton and got an idea about that, and then I visited Purdue and MSU too and I kinda got the idea that I wanted a school that played good football, but also offered a good academic program.

"[1]As a freshman in 1964, Vidmer suffered a broken leg and torn ankle ligaments during a football practice session.

[5] In the opening game of the 1966 season, he threw for 258 passing yards,[6] a Michigan single-game record.