Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason a long string of individual stars have come to Harvard over the years, giving Harvard an often spectacular top five as well as an astonishing number of National Intercollegiate Champions. Until Yale's fine victory this winter, Harvard was the only college ever to win the National Team Championship--ten times--and in the past few years the names Ufford, Heckscher and Sears emphasize Harvard's striking dominance...
Headed by captain Ned Weld, the squad has six returning lettermen from last year's Ivy League championship team and several fine prospects coming up from the undefeated freshmen. Along with Weld, the returnees include Tim Gallwey, Fred Vinton, Bill Wood, Laurie Pratt and Jim Cameron. Bob Bowditch, Jorge Lemann and Bob Schwartzman are among the more promising sophomores...
...preceeding seasons, one was undefeated, the other marred by one loss. Also in this period, the freshmen have lost only two games with Ivy League competitors, one of which was the recent loss to Yale on March 7, which gave Yale the unofficial Ivy League championship by virtue of its untarnished 3-0 record...
...championship tourney, Gerry Emmet played very well, reaching the quarterfinals before bowing to Princeton's Steve Vehslage, the eventual winner, in three hard-fought games...
Vehslage's triumph in the finals, where he whipped Howe, 15-8, 18-17, 10-15, 15-8, gave Princeton the team championship by one point over Yale...