One of the best wrestlers Yale has ever had is a junior who is almost stone blind. Last week 165-lb. Bob Russell stalked his Columbia opponent by the sound of his footsteps, pinned him in 5 min., 42 sec. with a reverse body lock and nelson. It was Russell's first intercollegiate match.
A splinter from a banged croquet mallet pierced Bob Russell's left eye when he was five, and sympathetic blindness struck his right one. He studied from first grade through high school at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, learned...
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