Word: matchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quickly aparent, however, that such ratings would mean little in the match, and on the strength of some spectacular scrambling and occasionally brilliant shotmaking Emmet left the court with a 2-1 lead after the third game...
...here Emmet rallied again, and with the gallery holding its breath at every stroke, he won seven straight points to even the match, refusing to make the single error which would have given Howe the victory...
Emmet then gained a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five deuce only to tin a routine drive. On the final point of the match, Howe dropped a perfect lob serve in Emmet's backhand court, which the Crimson player could not effectively return. Howe's follow-up drive down the wall extracted the final error and ended the match...
...next court down from the Howe-Emmet match, a similar battle between Mait Jones of Yale and the Crimson's Tim Gallwey ended in the same fashion, with Yale winning on the last possible point. Gallwey had been down, 2 to 0, but rallied to win a pair of 15-12 games. After dropping behind in the final game he manged to pull even at 13-all, only to lose the best-of-nine deuce...
...Foster, after nearly three seasons without a defeat in dual meet competition, lost to the Bruins' Gene Roberts on a freak forfeit call. Using an illegal hold--without warning from the referee--Foster injured Roberts, and the Brown wrestler was unable to continue. The referee awarded the match to Roberts on a forfeit...