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...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...
...buck." When spun by Jim Hand Enterprises, the variations are seemingly endless. Hand's boys, traveling in his fleet of new Jaguars and Cadillacs, are constantly on the move. Deacon Jones is taking dancing lessons in preparation for his Las Vegas nightclub act. There are the Lance Alworth dry-cleaning shops. The Donny Anderson boys' camp. The Rick Barry syndicated sports column. And, named according to regional fan interest, the Lance Alworth, Donny Anderson and Rick Barry restaurants and motels...
...avenge last year's 50-7 thumping. While the Charger offensive line took care of the Rams' vaunted pass rush, Quarterback John Hadl riddled the Los Angelenos' defense for 14 completions and 302 yds., including a 68-yd. touchdown toss to his brilliant flanker, Lance Alworth. Final score: San Diego 35, Los Angeles...
...preseason scores. Exhibition games are still a time of testing, tuning and pruning; they offer far from reliable samples of relative ability. Still, an improvement in the caliber of A.F.L. play has long been expected. And those A.F.L. victories can only breed confidence. Says San Diego's Alworth: "The N.F.L. teams did such a terrific job of selling the idea that they were so superior to us that we were scared to death of playing them. Now we are convinced that we are just as mean as they...