Word: hobey
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...difference between, say, Lear and Lycidas. Hobey Baker, a masterpiece of athletic talent at Princeton in the years before World War I, died in 1918 when his plane crashed in France. After his graduation, Baker had said sadly: "I realize my life is finished ... I will never equal the excitement of playing on the football field...
Perhaps it is the rigor of being a Princeton athletic hero that has transformed Robby into a Tiger version of The Incredible Foam Man. He wouldn't be the first one. Hobey Baker had to join the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I to find some adventure after Princeton football. And after a couple of years as All-Ivy tailback, Cosmo Iacavazzi had to join the New York Jets' taxi squad to find meaning in life...