Ex-USOC Head Kane Dies

ITHACA, N.Y. — Robert J. Kane, a former president of the U.S. Olympic Committee and dean emeritus of health and physical education at Cornell University, died Sunday of heart and respiratory failure. He was 81.

Kane headed the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1977 through 1981. He helped organize the first U.S. Olympic Festival, at Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1978.