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...national title rests on the slim chance that Yale--a team which is surprisingly strong this year and shows signs of being a formidable contender--upsets the Tigers and the Crimson and wins the rest of its matches. Harvard would then share the crown with Yale and Princeton, which, Bain said, "is at this point certainly within the realm of possibility...
...combination of playing at Princeton before a home crowd and a desire for retribution after last year's last minute victory at Hemenway sparked the Princeton team. As Crimson captain Clark Bain said after the match, "Everyone played their best and really put out for the team, but it is definitely hard to overcome the homecourt advantage...
...fair idea of their opponent's strengths from meeting them in a number of recent tournaments. "Whenever our players have come up against theirs, the matches have been really close, and may of them could have ended with either one of the players winning," said team captain Clark Bain...
...Bain's point was borne out last weekend in New York when the Crimson's finest, freshman Brad Desaulniers, met Tiger ace John Nimick in a tournament at the Harvard Club. Nimick narrowly won the match in the fifth game which Fish said "easily could have gone either...
Regardless of that ill omen, team members remain confident. "I think we're going to win: I think it's going to be close; but I just think we're going to win," said Bain. He added he thinks the team's strength lies in its members' ability to consistently raise the level of their game even when other members are having off days, something he feels even last year's team could not do as adeptly...