Word: bacon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saturday afternoon, Jim Bacon shovelled his car out of the snow in Beverly, Mass., raced to Hemenway Gymnasium, and proceeded to give Ben Heckscher, number one man on the varsity, his toughest match of the year...
Heckscher won the Foster Trophy, symbolic of the University squash championship, but not until Bacon had won the first two games of their three-out-of-five encounter...
...seeded Ben Heckscher will meet third-ranked Jim Bacon in the finals of the University Squash Tournament today at 4 p.m. Heckscher, the defending champion, is favored to defeat Bacon, but squash coach Jack Barnaby, who had Bacon as captain of the 1952 squad, predicted he would make an excellent showing...
Heckscher reached the final round with a 3-1 victory over freshman captain Charlie Hamm. In the other half of the draw, Bacon defeated Charlie MacVeagh, number three man on the varsity, by an identical score. MacVeagh had previously provided the tournament's major upsets. He edged sixth-seeded varsity captain Pete Milton, 3 to 2, in the quarter-finals after downing second-seeded Don Scott, 3 to 1, in the round of sixteen...
...other quarter-final round encounters, Bacon defeated Roger Cortesi, seventh varsity player, 3 to 0, and Heckscher topped fifth-seeded Charles Symington, 3 to 1. In the tournament's closest match, Hamm defeated Larry Sears, number eight varsity...