Word: penn
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...percentages finally caught up with the Harvard squash team last Saturday as Penn halted the Crimson's string of undefeated matches at 21 by pulling off a stunning 5-4 upset on the Penn courts...
Going into Saturday's match, Harvard had run off 24 consecutive victories against Penn, including a pair of 5-4 squeakers in their previous two encounters...
...expected, Anil Nayar and Larry Terrell, at one and two, won easily. Nayar alternated between blistering drives and soft drop shots, winning in three straight games. Terrell overpowered Eliot Berry of Penn with crisp, hard crosscourt drives, eventually winning in four games...
...Penn's superior strength in the lower positions was decisive as Harvard was able to salvage only one victory in the last six positions. Ed Atwood at number seven accounted for that one victory as he held on to win the third game, 18-17, and the match...
Wins over Penn and, on February 22, over Princeton could enable Harvard to finish higher in the Ivy League than it has since the league was founded...