Word: oehrlein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veterans didn't do so well, but this didn't bother Barnaby. Dave Benjamin had to play on a hard court against John Reese of Penn, who later won the tournament, and the powerful Reese won easily. Clive Kileff, Harvard's number two man, ed Army's Wait Oehrlein 8-1 in an "inercollegiate set" before losing 12-10. Oehrlein lost to Reese in the finals...
Doubles is likely to be the team's strong point; Steele and classmate Dean Peckham are an experienced combination at number one; Ripley and Inman are big and powerful enough to blow most number two teams off the court. They won over Army's talented Oehrlein brothers in a match at West Point...
...point Ripley was a number two player, and later in the year he sank to number three. But this year he seems to have developed. He won four straight intercollegiate matches on the vacation tour, winding up with a 6-4, 6-3, demolition of Army's touted Walt Oehrlein...
Chum Steele dropped a three-set match to Oehrlein's brother Richie at number two and Clive Kileff, the prize sophomore from Southern Rhodesia, lost the number three match. But the bottom of the Crimson lineup ripped off three wins, as sophomore Dave Benjamin, captain Sandy Walker, and Dean Peckman all triumphed...
Princeton, with Svastich, Frank Satterthwaite, Toby Symington, and John Frazier, probably poses the biggest threat to the Crimson's supremacy, but an Army team sparked by the brothers Oehrlein--Al and Richie--might beat out the Tigers for second. Tom Poor is probably the tournament's second-best player, but Amherst has little talent backing...