Word: alworth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not the Ivy League's answer to Lance Alworth hauls in a dozen Paul Michalko passes or not today will not be the answer to his effectiveness, for he has proven himself just as troublesome to defenses with or without the ball...
...early AFL built up a steady following that rooted for indisputable stars like Lance Alworth and Babe Parilli and George Blanda--and thrilled to the bizarre bounces that the ball took when the talent of the Hall of Famers mixed democratically with the hall of flamers...
...stadium is bleak in its emptiness, the football fan returns home, weary but exhilarated from his vicarious participation in "the game." And then, in the blah hours of the early morning, he will lighten the dark night of his soul by meditating on the fawnlike grace of a Lance Alworth, the brute power of a Buck Buchanan, the quick, vicious moves of a Ray Nitschke. And when he sleeps, he dreams. Personally, I have decided to dream tonight about fat, creaky George Blanda, 43, trundling out on the field last weekend to throw two touchdown passes for the Oakland Raiders...
...despite those serious handicaps, or perhaps because of them. Bordley has assumed a powerful identity on the Princeton campus, a combination of Lance Alworth. Shipwreek Kelley (bokler of the New York City flagpole sitting record-74 days in 1925) and Jerry Lewis, that has made him a living legend. And tomorrow, when Robby steps onto the field as Princeton's leading midfielder against Harvard's lacrosse team, it will be Cambridge's last chance to worship this Master of Revels before he goes an inactive reserve...