Word: netmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continuing their string of overwhelming victories the University netmen minus the services of Captain Whitbeck crushed the M. I. T. team by an 8 to 1 score...
...University tennis team blanked the Bowdoin netmen yesterday afternoon, winning all the six matches which were played in straight sets. The work of the Crimson men was so uniformly good that no one player can be singled out as the particular star of the meet. Since Bowdoin had only four men the meet had to be cut down to six matches...
...experience is an able forecast for a tennis season, things look especially bright for the Freshman netmen. B.H. Whitebeck Jr., brother of the Captain of the University team, is a promising candidate. He won the Roys' National Indoor Championship in 1923, the Harvard Interscholastics in 1924, and was captain of the Loomis net team for two years H.H. Lisker is another likely racquet-wielder. He captured the Interscholastic Championship of Rhode Island in 1924 and 1925, and was twice captain of the team which won the Gilden Cup in Providence, Robeson Bailey, winner of the Freshman championship in last fall...
Princeton came to Cambridge on May 20 with a tennis team that had given the Yale netmen a strong fight. The almost unexpected 9-0 victory that resulted for the University gave rise to very high hopes for the Yale match on the following Saturday. Yale, however, with the characteristic determination of the Bull Dog refused to accept the odium of defeat and struggled on to a tied score at 4-4, with the outcome of the match between Whitbeck and Ingraham and Jones and Watson still in the air at a set apiece. A sudden squall of rain, when...
This spring Whitbeck has alternated at numbers one, two, and three on the University team. Against Williams he filled the former position in place of Captain Ingraham, who was unable to play. Against the Orange and Black netmen he was displaced by Briggs at number two, but he won back his old position soon after the Princeton match...