Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's game will be the first really tough one for the Crimson since the season opener with Navy, which the Midshipmen won, 9-7. Since then. Harvard has won three straight and has had trouble only with Penn...
...chilly, insistent wind forced the matches from Harvard's soft outdoor clay courts to the harder surface of the Palmer Dixon indoor facility, and almost immediately. the Midshipmen were at a disadvantage. Unused to the sometimes tenuous footing, several of the Navy singles players found themselves behind early, and authoritative Crimson volleys never let them come back...
...even after Crimson coach Jack Barnaby rested his first doubles unit. of Washauer and Nielsen, and pitted the other tandems against higher-ranking Navy entries, the Midshipmen were unable to halt Harvard's momentum...
...triumph. Harvard's second straight and its 19th in a row over the Midshipmen, ties the Crimson for the EITA lead. a position it will probably hold for at least another week and a half. Only one of Harvard's three matches next week is a league contest, and it will send the Crimson against Brown. which Navy defeated 6-3 last Friday at Providence...
Harvard did well to hold perennially powerful, Navy to less than ten goals in the season opener, and the Midshipmen did much of their scoring by capitalizing on mistakes common at this early date. Against Adelphi on Hofstra University's asiroturf, the Crimson defense had little trouble turning back Adelphi's attacks and then quickly clearing the ball...