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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elliot Forbes seems to have struck a rich vein since the section contains at least three men capable of pleasing solo presentations. The had on the whole a good sound, but the second tenors (an imperious breed of specialists as difficult to find as second fiddles) were not a match for the firsts in quality. The result was a slight imbalance and loss of clarity in the inner voices...
...victory, which extended Harvard's unbeaten string to four matches, was in doubt until the final match of the afternoon. Jose Gonzales and Kent Parrot clinched the triumph with a convincing 6-2, 6-2 win at number two doubles...
...wasn't that the linksters were hooking or slicing their tee shots this fine spring afternoon. Indeed, their clubs never made it out of the back seat of the 1975 Matador that was transporting the foursome of Scott McNeely, Alex Vik, Randy Millen and John Bartlett to the match's scheduled site of New Seabury Country Club on Cape Cod. Instead, it was a shanked brake which caused all of the trouble, a two-car collision outside of a shopping mall in Wareham, Mass., and the assessment of a two-stroke penalty to the Crimson for hitting into an unexpected...
...Friday prior to the match, the Princetonians, who had defeated all of their previous opponents that season by a 9-0 margin, speculated on their chances of performing a similar fete against the Crimson. The latter had fallen two years running to the defending national champs, so one Tiger racquetman thought it only proper, upon arriving at Hemenway Gym, to inquire of his Harvard opponent, "Aren't you scared playing Princeton?" "Oh yeah, terrified," came the reply...
Their cockiness aside, however, the Tigers remained gentlemen. Before the match, what Barnaby described as a "beautiful Tiger blanket" was presented to the retiring Harvard coach in a gesture of appreciation. Barnaby, himself a gentlemen, then proceeded to demonstrate his thanks. Unveiling a team which he claimed "couldn't have carried Princeton's racquets on the court without permission in November," Barnaby sat back and watched a "tremendous win," a 6-3 triumph over the favored Tigers, that allowed Barnaby to retire with the nicest gift of all: national championship number 20 and Ivy League title number 21. Quite gentlemanly...