Word: penns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education at Penn is pretty good, and no one would deny that there were a few smart people there. But in the past, their, their teams were losing ones, at least when Harvard was the opponent. Only in basketball did the Quakers hold an edge, and they had never beaten a Harvard squad in squash, cross country, or hockey. It was tradition to lose to the Crimson, and a damn good one at that...
...some people have no respect for tradition, and the rejuvenated athletic department at Penn seems to contain a few such individuals. Going to the University of Pennsylvania for the athletic program used to be like going to Wool-worth's to buy a suit. But some of the more ambitious persons connected with Penn went out to rustle up some jocks, and the shortest of chats with some of the Quaker's heavyweight oarsmen, last Saturday at Worcester makes it quite clear that they came up with a pretty rare and rugged species. After a while, even the most docile...
...whole new menagerie has evolved at Penn, though the evolution was compressed into about five years. And this year, the Crimson did no better than break even with the Quakers. Most of the Penn victories were tragic, even humiliating...
...First, Penn whipped the fencing team, 19-8. Harvard is not a fencing power, but neither is Penn, and the score was very unacceptable. Coach Edo Marion just shook his head. "It was very disappointing and unexpected," he said. "Even the Penn coach came up to me afterwards and said he couldn't believe the score was so lopsided," Marion added. It was the first time that season that Harvard had lost all three weapons...
...first time ever after losing to the Crimson 25 times. Coach Jack Barnaby's squad had won 7 consecutive Ivy titles, 24 straight team matches, and 60 of 63 individual matches that winter before losing to the Quakers and their strange balls, 5-4. The loss gave Penn the league championship ahead of the Crimson. You could almost hear Dickie Lee saying, "Strange things happen in this world." Barnaby said that seeing Penn so happy almost took he sting out of the defeat. Coaches have compassion...