Word: princeton
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...varsity track team will meet Yale head-on for the first time this season today at New Haven. Princeton's perennially disappointing squad will be an interested spectator, but is not expected to figure in the triangular meet...
...Kean of the Crimson should take the high jump, and the pole vault is a standoff between Tom Blodgett and Yale's Jim Anthony. Princeton may provide some opposition in the jumps and pole vault...
...Quakers dropped their first two league matches, losing by lopsided margins to league-leading Cornell and to a mediocre Brown squad. Last Saturday, however, they surprised unbeaten Princeton, gaining a 14-14 tie. Coach Pickett says Penn "is getting better every week" and expects a close match today...
Harvard squash followers will no doubt remember a similar trip two years ago, when Jack Barnaby's squad, led by the brilliant Ben Hecksher, went on this exact same journey and met a totally unexpected disaster at Navy and Princeton. That year, however, the Crimson was heavily favored to take the Eastern title, and it is more than likely that overconfidence played an important part in the two upsets. Such is not the case this winter. The varsity has no illusions about being clearly superior to the rest of the league and is ready for a rough battle, especially from...
...Princeton, although it has the top intercollegiate player in the person of sophomore Steve Vehslage, does not have the depth necessary to challenge the exceptionally well-balanced Harvard team. At the top positions, Princeton will pose a threat, but the Tigers' main hope for victory lies in the possibility of a massive Crimson let-down following the Navy match on Friday...