Word: bodgin
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...captain Bobo Tanner struck upon the idea of inviting the Britons last winter and wrote Will Reeve of the Oxford squad. After several more exchanges of letters, the game was set, resulting in the appearance in Cambridge of Reeve and teammates John Bodgin and Hugh Crisp on September...
...Oxford squad has been occupying various couches in the River Houses throughout the past week. Trudging through the living room to the bathroom one morning, one of my roommates was startled out of his daze by a cheery, "I say, good morning. Bodgin here. Awfully nice of you to let me sleep here...
After all the goodwill of the week, Bodgin made it clear that the atmosphere during the game would be quite different from the one surrounding the preceding pleasantries. "We are polite off the field but deadly serious on it," Bodgin warned. "We will offer our opponent a drink after the game, if he is still alive," Crisp added, with his Eton choirboy's grin...