Kurt Lamm

General secretary of the United States Soccer Football Association from 1971 to 1987. Lamm, who was born in Germany and came to the United States as a teenager in 1936, was the federation’s chief administrator through most of the North American Soccer League era. He had earlier been a player, manager and administrator in the American Soccer League, serving as vice president of that league from 1959 to 1963 and president from 1963 to 1968. Inducted in 1979.