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Navy is heavily favored to beat Army in Annapolis, and since composite scores determine the national championship, Harvard's hopes rest on outscoring the Midshipmen in tomorrow's matches. The Crimson lost to Navy, 6-3, earlier this season, but beat Army...
...fairly cut and dry because all the good teams are in the East and play each other during the regular season. When the perenially favored Crimson was victimized by screaming Annapolis galleries and dropped a 6-3 decision to Navy last month, it looked as if the Midshipmen would steal the crown...
...last weekend, Penn, a team Harvard beat 5-4, upset Navy in one of the most dramatic matches in intercollegiate history. The Midshipmen won four of the top five matches, while the Quakers captured the bottom four...
...Harvard--at home, while the Crimson this year plays three of its four--Princeton, Penn, and Navy--away. The Crimson mentor doubts that Navy is a better team and cites Harvard's 9-0 win at Cambridge last year and the fact that the Crimson won where the Midshipmen lost, at Philadelphia, though the last is a shaky support. Further evidence is that Earl beat Harvard's Rick Sterne at Annapolis but lost in an equally close five-game tournament match on a neutral New York court over Christmas vacation...
Navy will not field any notable individual players, but the Midshipmen are known as spirited fighters in good condition. Warm courts and screaming galleries usually annoy teams visiting Annapolis. Five years ago the Crimson played its last away contest with Navy under similar conditions, and lost...