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Four days ago, Robert Blake (it was a good week for Robert Blakes) was just the captain and best player on the undefeated freshman team. Then Ned Bacon, who normally plays number seven, came down with the flu, creating a vacancy on the squad...
Scott Mead and Ken Ehrlich moved up one notch to seven and eight, respectively, and Blake was now playing number nine in a varsity match for the national championship...
...when Harvard could forge only a 4-2 lead after the first two rounds (the team match was played in three rounds of three individual matches each), Blake's match suddenly became meaningful...
...Sure there was a little more pressure than usual," Blake said last night, "but there was added pressure for everyone, because we wanted to win for Jack...
Richard W. Palmer '77, publicity director for Hasty Pudding Theatricals, said yesterday that Blake was selected because members of the group felt "he had done a lot for television in the last year...