There is quite a story re: Bob Bradley ’80, the head coach of the U.S. World Cup soccer team. PAW mentioned him recently (Tiger of the Week, Oct. 14), but for those who know soccer at the World Cup level, Bob’s elevation to that post — from his start in Princeton’s soccer program, not exactly an NCAA icon, and then as our head coach of soccer — is absolutely extraordinary. An Argentine friend of mine, a major club soccer player and contender for the world-famous Argentine national team, was astounded at hearing about Bob. My son, Bruce Petersen ’79, lived immediately below Bob in Bruce’s senior year. He remembers observing soccer games played in Bob’s rooms, with such adept ball control by Bob and his teammates that “nothing was broken, ever!” 

Elton R. Petersen ’48