Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...losses, only one--the disaster at Brown--was by a lop-sided margin, and the varsity actually won 50 individual matches to its opponents' 35 during the campaign. The team, a much better one than its record would indicate, had every conceivable "break" go the wrong way--from mid-season withdrawals to questionable calls to Bob Foster's absence (due to a knee injury) from a match in which his victory would have been the deciding factor...
...academic pressures, Princeton was not represented, and the championship was confined to competition between Harvard and Yale. In this situation Yale was able to win but one match. At the number one position in team competition, Captain Roger Tuckerman efficiently defeated Yale's Roy Plum 6-2, 6-1. Brothers Dwight and John Davis also won for the Crimson, defeating Eli hopefuls Dinny Phipps and Richard Collier...
Playing number four for the Crimson, James W. B. Benkard turned in one of the contest's outstanding performances by playing and winning two singles and one doubles match in one day. In singles, he defeated Eli three-letter-man Gene Scott 6-4, 6-3. He then whipped Swing Meyer in the extra quarter-finals match. The only player to lose for Harvard was William Post, Jr., who after taking the first set, lost the last two to Meyer, 6-0, 6-1. The doubles pairs of Dwight Davis and Tuckerman, and Benkard and John Davis, won quickly, losing...
...thought is now moving the other way. His books are rapidly being translated into German (he is too busy to do the job himself) as well as French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Fellow theologians are increasingly coming to view his work as a monumental and unique effort to match the insights of Christianity with the predicament of modern...
...what was termed by high-scoring Dick Murphy "probably the easiest match we've had all season," the rifle team outshot Tufts, 1406 to 1332, for their sixth Greater Boston Rifle League victory in nine starts...