Education and Athletics
Known as "Rusty", Blaisdell played basketball, football, and baseball at Saint Louis School. He attended Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania where he was quarterback of the school's football team, graduating in 1927. He received Bucknell's Alumni Award for Meritorious Achievement in 1968. Although Blaisdell also played both basketball and baseball, he was inducted into the Bucknell Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988 under the category of football. He was also a golfer who started his day with push-ups. Blaisdell returned to Honolulu to become a teacher, high school coach and athletic director.
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