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Last year the Harvard team won four matches, squeezing through the last two by 3-2 margins, to take home the national team championship. They did it without Niederhoffer, who was playing in the singles tournament; he reached the semifinals before bowing to Ben Hecksher '59 in four games. Hecksher went on to win the title...
...Hecksher is back again this year, but the pre-tourney favorite has to be Henri Salaun, the four-time champ who has whipped every top amateur in the country this year...
Salaun is the only amateur to beat Vic Niederhoffer at any time this season. Neiderhoffer spilled Hecksher in a Massachusetts "A" League match; he has beaten former amateur champ Harry Conion, the tournament's fourth seed, twice. But he lost to Salaun in the Middlesex Bowl Tournament over Christmas vacation, and again in the Cowles Invitational in New York just after exams...
Penn would have been a top challenger for the title if number one man Maurice Hecksher hadn't dropped out of school this fall. Without him, Penn lacks the depth and the strength at the top to be a consistent winner. They have lost to Navy 8-1, and to Yale...
Salaun, five-time former U.S. Amateur squash champion, whipped Niedorhoffer 15-1, 15-12, 15-8 in a semifinal match, and went on to trip current amateur champ Ben Hecksher in the finals...