Word: racquetmen
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...Crimson has not lost a match since February 6, 1982, when Princeton slipped past Harvard, 5-4, in Cambridge. The racquetmen's 58-game winning streak represents the fourth-longest streak in college history. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor) and Bill Walton led UCLA to 88 straight victories between 1971-'74, and that record still stands...
...racquetmen have their eyes on it. Sort...
Going into the 1986-'87 campaign, the big question was "Is there life after Kenton?" The racquetmen proceeded to show that they could live (and win) without the The Sultan of Streaks by capturing their fifth straight Ivy League and national team titles...
During its current streak, the Crimson has won 491 individual matches, while surrendering only 32. In their 64 year history, the racquetmen have won 4109 individual matches and lost a piddling 1145. When this year's Crimson edition snagged its 50th straight win--a 9-0 blanking of Army in January--it broke the winning streak of its predecessor...
When Cowles retired in 1937, Barnaby (who played under Cowles on both the squash and tennis teams) picked up where his mentor left off, recording a 355-95 mark during his remarkable 36-year career. Barnaby led the racquetmen to 21 Ivy League titles, 20 national intercollegiate titles, 16 national singles championships, 16 intercollegiate singles titles and 10 six-man championships. Needless to say, this kind of showing is unequalled in the annals of squash...