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...seeds in the tournament will probably be Penn's undefeated number one and two men, Maurice Heckscher and Howard Coonley, Yale's John West, and Princeton's Burt Gay, who won the New York invitation Tournament during Christmas Invitation...
...Coonley, Penn's number two player, and runner-up in the tournament last year, edged Gonzalez by two points in a long five-game match during the regular season. With no one player standing out above the rest, Gonzalez and fellow sophomore Sterne are by no means out of contention and may upset one of the seeds...
...number two match, Gonzalez lost an even tighter match to Penn captain Howard Coonley. Coonley, finding himself being out-stroked in the first two games, varied the pace to win the next two. In the final game, Gonzales utilized an effective dropshot to recover from a four-point deficit, but Coonley's experience and gamesmanship prevailed...
Winner of four of the top six matches in last year's 5-4 loss to Harvard, Penn is not hurting up front this year, either. Howard Coonley and Maurice Heckscher, the polished one and two players at Penn, comprise the best combination in intercollegiate squash -- unless Harvard captain Dinny Adams and sophomore Jose Gonzalez can prove otherwise...
Despite its lack of depth, Penn won't be a pushover, as its 5-4 victory at Yale testifies. With the likes of Coonley and Heckscher at the top, a couple of upsets down below could make the match as tense as last year...