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Tiger coach John Conroy said, "Harvard was really up and hungry for it." He compared today's upset with the 1965 contest, when Princeton, favored to win, hosted Harvard but lost to the Crimson team, 4-5. In that contest, the Tigers won four of the singles but lost all three doubles...
...Conroy pointed out that the top three Harvard netmen are seniors. He also mentioned Tiger freshman Bill Colson, number four in the 18 years and younger national competition, whom he predicts will move to number one ahead of Goeltz next season. "There will be another year. We'll be back," Conroy said...
Goeltz sat out most of last season after being suspended from the freshman team for cutting practice. When Princeton coach John Conroy manages to coax his ace onto a tennis court, Goeltz flashes a golden racket...
With little sentimentality and few false notes, Conroy, now 31 and a freelance writer, describes a kind of Huck Finn-Holden Caulfield boyhood and coming of age in Florida, Connecticut and Manhattan, in the midst of a rather eccentric family. It is the most obvious of themes, but Conroy brings it off remarkably well, with an almost archaic narrative skill...
...ages into adolescence, Conroy confronts all its standard humiliations and the ache of sex. Maturing fitfully, he falls in love with reading, then with writing, and tells himself one day: "I'm a novelist! What a beautiful thing to be able to say." To judge from these promising and prismatic memoirs, Conroy will certainly be able to say it before long...