Word: gerken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshman Dan Gerken and sophomores Kevin Shaw and Scott Walker each contributed a pair of individual victories as the Crimson avenged last year's loss to the Lions-a defeat that prevented Harvard from winning the Ivy League title outright...
...Crimson did not own the copyright on winning tie-breakers, though. Columbia's number four, Jeff Silver, opened his match against Gerken with a 7-6 first-set victory. But Gerken was not about to let Silver spoil his Palmer Dixon debut and he came back to smoke the Lions, taking a pair of 6-3 sets without much trouble...
...After Gerken's match, the focus of attention turned to Todd Lundy's battle against Jon Molen at number two-the best match of the day. After the two players split closely-contested 6-4 sets, Lundy came on to win-you guessed it-a third-set tie-breaker...
Walker at three, freshman Dan Gerken at four, Kevin Shaw at five and Bunis at six are all of similar caliber--good. The doubles combinations--Lundy and Waldman at one. Walker and Shaw at two, and Adler and Gerken at three--appear solid on paper, though they remain untested in league competition...
Walker and Shaw combined to win an equally one-sided affair to put Harvard ahead, 6-2, before Gerken and Cliff Adler, who did not play a singles match, were sunk in two sets by the last Navy...