Dick Frye, son of Greater Utica Sports Hall of Fame member Allen "Chiz" Frye, is regarded as the Utica area's best all-around athlete.

In football, basketball and baseball, he was a major force on his father's outstanding Whitesboro High School teams, 1948-51. Not only a winner of All-Upstate New York honors in those sports, he slipped into track shoes and reeled of 10.1 in the 100 yard dash.

At Princeton University, he ran and passed his Freshman football team to an undefeated season and sparked the Freshman basketball team to a 12-1 record. Unfortunately, a series of severe shoulder injuries, starting in his Sophomore year, hampered, Frye’s varsity career in both sports. With remarkable perseverance, he played in his Junior year. Then, as he reached a starting position in each sport in his Senior year, a recurrence of his injuries brought his season to a halt.

Dick Frye graduated cum laude from Princeton in 1955 and cum laude from Albany Law School in 1958. A partner in a Utica law firm, he was Oneida County District Attorney 1963-72, and has continued to serve his community in many ways.