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...only defeat Harvard suffered was Tommy Wynne's 1-up loss to Eli Larry Oxford. Oxford dropped a ten-foot down-hill putt on the last hole to keep the Elis from being shutout a second consecutive time this season. The Yale team lost 7-0 to Princeton on Saturday...
...match that saw the Harvard team lose four sudden-death play offs. The '67 encounter wasn't much better. The golf team fell, 4-3. In that defeat, the number seven man for Harvard lost his match when he failed to drop a 2-foot putt on the twentieth hole...
Tommy Wynne, who helped the Harvard football team beat Yale last year, said that the assistants usually unnerved the Crimson golfers. "I would miss a putt and that guy with his walkie-talkie would be whispering back the fact to Wilson," Wynne said...
Playing behind LoPucki, Jack Purdy took his match to the last hole before he lost, 1-down. He needed a five-foot putt to birdie the hole and win the match, but his put rolled to the pin and slid off the edge...
Going into the 18th, Oldfield and Cornell's Bill Powers were even for the match. Both got onto the green in three. Oldfield had a ten foot putt for a par; Powers a six-footer. Oldfield tapped his putt too hard, sending it two feet past the pin. Powers gave him the putt--which is the usual and gentlemanly procedure. Powers, who must have anticipated an easy par and a victory, blew it. He three-putted the green and lost the match...