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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the temperature outdoors these days is considerably below this pleasant level the caretakers over at Hemenway gymnasium must try to maintain a constant 70 degrees every afternoon from 2:30 p.m. on. Coach Jack Barnaby and his squash team swing their stunted tennis racquets at the little black ball and expect it to bounce back with a normal velocity...
Last year Harvard ranked second in the intercollegiate squash league while Yale and Princeton, the only teams that defeated the Crimson, sandwiched the local team on the squash ladder. The team's success in recent years is due largely to the guiding hand of coach Barnaby, who has followed a two point program for building bigger and better squash teams...
Unlike football, basketball, or hockey, the game of squash racquets does not depend on team cooperation, or even on the mastery of a specific style by the members of the squad. The only way a coach could ever get a squad to play the same basic type of game would be to scout hundreds of candidates, looking for similarity of style. So Coach Barnaby has sensibly resolved to bring out the individual talent in each man rather than to impose a special game upon the player. On the Barnaby team, each man plays according to his own bent...
With only one game behind it, the '53 basketball team faces a Boston University freshman outfit which Coach Floyd Wilson calls "one of the best teams we'll meet this season." The game starts at 6:45 p.m. tonight in the Indoor Athletc Building...
...Coach Wilson has had to juggle his starting lineup since the Tufts game because of a groin injury to center Dick Lionette...