Valuable Players

WHEN someone at Dartmouth mentions "The Sting" these days, Bruce Bokor, not Robert Redford or Paul Newman, is the name that comes to mind.

Out of the fall season, the Dartmouth athlete who was expected to be involved first in the draft by the pro teams was football player Reggie Williams, but it turned out to be Bokor, the two-time all-Ivy League soccer player, who was chosen by the Chicago Sting in the second round of the North American Soccer League's mid-January draft.

Bokor had to share the spotlight, though, with another draft choice of the Sting, Marilyn Lange, a most valuable player of sorts. She was named Playboy magazine's Playmate-of-the-Year in 1975.

Bokor has been Dartmouth's scoring leader for two years, and his career total of 29 points is exceeded only by Bob Drawbaugh '54 (33) and Egil Stigum '56 (30). Bokor holds every Dartmouth record for assists.

"When I was younger, my goal in soccer was to make the Olympic team," said Bokor. "I'm excited, but I don't expect to play pro soccer the rest of my life." One roadblock may be his size (5-4, 130 pounds), but Bokor feels it's not a major obstacle. The Sting apparently didn't feel physical dimensions were a liability when they drafted Marilyn Lange.