Despite his wealth and social background, Roosevelt struggled with the feeling that he was something of an outsider. He tried out for the football team but was cut because of his slender frame (now he was six feet and one and a half inches tall and weighed 146 pounds). He yearned to be admitted to the Porcellian, the most exclusive social club on campus, as his cousin (and then President) Theodore Roosevelt had been before him, but he was not invited.This passage is about