Word: quakers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second and third singles fairly well sum up the whole afternoon. Harvard could never quite adjust to the Quakers' pure power tactics. Penn Captain John Reese, who just about smacks the fuzz off the ball, took a fast set from Dave Benjamin and then hung on to take the second set, 7-5, just as Benjamin was beginning to gain momentum. The Quaker third man, Clay Hamlin, blasted serves and volleys past baseliner Clive Kileff...
Dean Peckham, one of two Crimson players who count heavily on big serves, cleaned up on the hard courts. He pounded Quaker number four man Rich Kolker, 6-1, 6-3, to complete an undefeated individual season. Harvard's other hitter, sixth man Brian Davis, nudged out Fred George 6-2 in the third set to put the Crimson back in the ball game...
...Harvard can just split the singles 3-3, then Coach Jack Barnaby will be all smiles. Doubles, the Crimson strong point and the Quaker weak spot, would give Harvard the needed 5-4 margin...
...Good Product." The college's decision to explore every governmental source of money was taken at the urging of its horseback-riding president, Howard Irving Dillingham, 60. A Syracuse Ph.D. in education, Dillingham, although a Quaker, was headmaster of Georgia's Riverside Military Academy ("Though Quakers are pacifistic, I am not") when Ithaca summoned him back to New York in 1951, made him president in 1957. When he arrived, Ithaca had no accreditation and many of its students were Cornell flunk-outs who, insists one businessman, stuck around town "to enjoy the drinking life...
Anderson should have less trouble in the triple jump. Yale's Wright and Princeton's Mel Branch are almost a foot short of the Quaker star's 47-ft. efforts...