Word: player
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baseball player, Wood--a line drive slugger--was a consistent .300 hitter. As a senior, he went through more than 20 games with only two errors...
Contemporaries rated Wood a tennis player of great promise, but he didn't have time to earn more than one letter. Legend has him playing tennis against Yale between innings of baseball games...
...first of the Cowles' all-stars was W. Palmer Dixon '25. Cowles didn't have a set of magic rules. He picked out a player's strongest point and worked on it. He taught Dixon, who had an uncanny ability to sense shots, a strong position game. Able to intercept and return anything thrown at him. Dixon was nearly unbeatable. He took the National Singles title...
Herbert Rawlins, Jr. '27 was a stylist, a player whose grace made him a pleasure to watch. Jack Barnaby '32, Harvard's present squash coach, wrote of him: "It was his pleasure to thwart the crude bludgeonings of sluggers with the rapier thrust of restrained but perfect accuracy." Rawlins took the National title...
Finally there was Germain G. Glidden '36, an artist whose portrait of Harry Cowles hangs in Hemenway Gymnasium. Picking out Glidden's lightening speed as his greatest asset, Cowles, with inspired genius, gave him a tricky three wall shot, the "boast," that only an extraordinarily fast player could risk using. Glidden's matches were always played at a blinding tempo, and he captured the National title in '36, '37, '38, and retired undefeated from national play...