Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson stalwarts Brad Desaulniers--who ordinarily plays in the number one position--and Chip Robie (no. 3) sat out the afternoon in an attempt to keep the score at a respectable level. But it was all to no avail...
...story amounts to this: having been booted from school two or three times and having disappointed his father's ambition for him to become a chip off the old block in the medical profession, he became a day laborer in a steel mill and a pit man in a railroad roundhouse. He spent most of his nights drinking "bootleg" liquor at clubs and speakeasies but somehow found enough contacts and friends to get a job with The New Yorker...
...Mickey Spillane knew anything about sports, he might have written the scenario. The courts were hot and fast, inhospitable to the Crimson shotmakers who lacked the all-important home advantage. But the Crimson was undaunted, jumping out to an early lead with Brad Desaulniers, Chip Robie, Geordie Lemmon and Clark Bain notching convincing wins over their Quaker opponents...
When the last of the heaping bowls of chocolate chip ice cream have been devoured and a satiated team sits back to shoot the breeze, Pat Horne arrives, flushed, happy, and HUNGRY...
Anticipating a tough opening round, the Harvard squad was dismayed when three members of the New York Squash Association team missed their plane and failed to appear. Number two player Chip Robie said he was he was disappointed but "felt nothing was lost...