Word: bordley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robinson Bordley, Princeton '70, is 57 call and weighs 155 pounds Some of his friends think that he has a massive Napoleonic complex, and one Radcliffe girl considers him "rather fresh...
...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...
...very real sense. Robinson Bordley is Princeton, you understand. He is a little kid who made All-Ivy at split end last fall as a member of Princeton's football team. He belongs to the almost immorally aristocratic Cottage Club, which counts him as one of its more tangible assets. He is remembered by a flock of Boston college girls, all of whom consider him small but cute and funny. And he does strange things whenever he gets the opportunity...
Even now, when Robby has begun to mellow after four years of making things interesting for people, he still feels that old lust for the unusual. So last winter, invited to be Wesleyan's basketball mascot, with carte blanche to put on his own halftime show, Bordley was waiting in the passageway just before time ran out in the second quarter-Nude...
...hardly surprising that Bordley, one of the greatest athletes in the history of Landon School next to Bobby Goeltz, has driven himself mercilessly to become what he is today...