Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first singles, captain Ben Heckscher closed out a superlative intercollegiate career by swamping Yale's Charlie Kingsley, 15-5, 15-4, and 17-16. Kingsley had come down with the flu Friday and was no match for the Crimson's intercollegiate singles champion, although it is doubtful if the score would have been much closer, even if Kingsley had been at his best...
...fourth singles, Charlie Hamm disposed of Yale's captain, Ed Meyer, 15-10, 15-11, 8-15, 17-15. After dropping the first two games, Meyer came back in the third, aided by several lapses on Hamm's backhand drive. The final game turned into somewhat of a slugging match as Meyer hoped to force Hamm into errors off his hard serve, but the Crimson player held on nicely to win the match...
...fifth singles position, Charlie MacVeagh played hard, tough squash for the first two close games, and finally wore Ron Ragen down to take the last one handily, winning the match 18-16, 18-17, and 15-9. MacVeagh made use of his excellent low, cracked crosscourt to keep his opponent constantly on the move...
Perhaps the most heartening win for the Crimson came early in the match, when Cortesi won his sixth singles match from Yale's Bob McCoy in four hard-fought games, 17-16, 15-17, 15-11, and 18-15. McCoy, characterized by one of his teammates as "a human backboard," was one of Yale's so-called sure wins, since he had been undefeated at his position up until the Harvard match, and Cortesi's win over him, gave the team a strong push towards victory...
...freshman match, the Yardling squash team ended its season undefeated by topping Yale, 5 to 4. Captain Gerry Emmet had his undefeated skein broken by the Elis' top player--on both freshman and varsity squads--Sonny Howe...