Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale comes to town this afternon, hopefully to play the varsity tennis team in the last match of the year for the Crimson. However, as of 10 p.m. last night it seemed possible that, because of the heavy downpour of rain, the match would be postponed...
...match is played, the varsity will be a slight favorite, although in the H-Y contests anything can happen. The Crimson's biggest difficulty will be in the middle singles berths, where Yale is rather strong, with captain Ed Meyer, Newell Auger, Mait Jones and Sandy Wiener all very definite threats at third through sixth singles...
...varsity tennis team had to play only two-thirds of a match yesterday to gain its eighteenth win of the year. Rain halted the Crimson's contest with Penn after the six singles had been completed, and since Harvard had won five of the six, enough to sew up the match, play was halted and the contest will be regarded as official...
...second singles, Steve Gottlieb, after winning the first set handily, ran into trouble in the second, eventually winning, 6-1, 8-6. Larry Sears had a tough match with Bob Robbins at third singles, but won in two sets, 6-4, 7-5. The quickest win of the day was engineered by Ben Heckscher at fourth singles, where he handily defeated Howie Friedel...
Neither Cal Place nor Phil Mills could make the trip, and captain Ian Gianetti and Ned Weld filled in for them at fifth and sixth singles respectively. Gianetti lost the Crimson's only match, bowing to Jerry Fiernerman, 6-3, 6-1, and Weld took a long three-setter from Axel Johnson, 6-8, 6-4, 6-3, to complete the varsity's victory...