Word: boyum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman Dave Boyum, currently Harvard's number-one player, came out of high school last year as the most sought-after squash player in the country. He was the second-best junior in North America, the highest ranked junior who planned to enter college. Every program that took itself seriously put on its Sunday best...
...When I went down to Princeton, "Boyum remembers, "their coach Peter Thompson spent two full days with me. We went out to eat at nice restaurants. I met the team, and must have played 20 hours of squash with them. Technically it's a violation to do that, but it didn't bother them...
...climbing out of a cold bus minus Dave Boyum and slapping themselves into consciousness just enough to beat Dartmouth 8-1. Harvard demonstrated yet again that the slide through the part of the season after a loss to Princeton is about like going through two weeks of clear skin after having to pop a facial pimple on prom night...
Harvard will be at full strength Saturday, with both Duffy and Boyum in the line-up for the first time in four matches...
After the match, Boyum expounded on such things as cutting out the excess in his stroke, and eliminating the topspin, but it was a recurrent theme that the outcome of the match circled back to: "When the big points came, I knew I'd get them...