Word: doublesized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Elis and Tigers, traditionally strong in women's sports, split first place honors, Yale grabbing the doubles title and Princeton winning the singles crown. Corey Wynn's Radcliffe squad served its way to a fourth-place finish, just in back of the home team, Smith.
Playing in the first doubles slot, Thal and freshman Katie Ditzlen fell in the quarter-final round to the Yale duo of Eve Ellis and Karen Feldman, by a score of 6-2, 2-6, 6-2. Ellis and Feldman went on to win the doubles competition, topping a Princeton...
Roberts and Cambell also played doubles together during those years, but this weekend they were on opposite sides of the net, and Cambell, representing Yale, prevailed, 6-2, 6-0, in a two-hour match that Roberts said had long rallies because neither player was hitting out.
The other Crimson duo or Rita Funaro and Joan Gumowitz (second doubles) fell victim to an unlucky draw, meeting the number one team from Princeton in the first round.
Died. Wilmer Allison, 72, top-ranked tennis player in the U.S. in 1934 and '35 and longtime University of Texas coach; of an apparent heart attack; in Austin, Texas. A spectacularly aggressive player, Allison starred on the U.S. Davis Cup team for seven years and won the Wimbledon doubles...