1)What means "glow pale"? So many times I'd watched a newcomer enter a game unknown, distrusted -- too fat to run the offence, too short to rebound, dark socks a sure sign of awkwardness--only to earn the full-throated cheers of men who'd have sneered at him in the street or office. Now, that was me, the alien who glowed pale, who spoke only a crumpled American English, who'd shown up on some scholarship nobody understood from a country no one wanted to understand. I needed the game, my game, it's powers and mine. 1)What means "glow pale"? 2)what is a crumpled American English? 3)What is the behavior of showing up on some scholarship? 4)What meaning does this below sentence convey? "who'd shown up on some scholarship nobody understood from a country no one wanted to understand." Plese help me!!