Word: racquetmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson hopes for a second consecutive national squash championship suffered a severe blow Saturday when a vengeful Tiger team felled the racquetmen by a score...
None of the three wins came easily for the racquetmen. In the second slot, Mitch Reese fought off a challenge from Princetonian George MacFarland to win his match three games to one. Meanwhile, number three Chip Robie, the player who clinched last year's triumph, maintained his personal dominance over his Tiger opponents by coming back after losing the first game...
...racquetmen must beat Princeton in order to retain the national championship they wrested from the Tigers last year at Hemenway. The match they won the title in last year was the stuff which sports legends are made of. In the final two points of the fifth game of the last match in a long afternoon of masterful squash, #5 Chip Robie defeated a tenacious opponent for a 15-13 victory. The win gave the Crimson a 5-4 edge over the Tigers and virtually assured a stroll to the collegiate crown. The racquetmen will have to deliver that kind...
...racquetmen also have a fair idea of their opponent's strengths from meeting them in a number of recent tournaments. "Whenever our players have come up against theirs, the matches have been really close, and may of them could have ended with either one of the players winning," said team captain Clark Bain...
...When the racquetmen left Cambridge yesterday for the land of carcinogens, they knew that they could not afford any bad days against the highly touted Tigers. Yet, they left with no small measure of self-assurance. "My team is pretty confident," said Fish. "I think it will be a great match, but I don't think either team is going to be able to walk over the other...