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With one win already tucked away, the Crimson racquetmen will travel out West over spring break to face Notre Dame and six Southern California colleges before returning home to take on the Ivy League...
...racquetmen were quick to recover from the back-to-back losses and finished the season with victories over MIT, Dartmouth and Yale and a strong showing in the national six-man championships. But the losses to Penn and Princeton seem indelible and leave a question mark on the possibilities of a Crimson national title next year or in the near future...
...like to say something bad about this year's Harvard men's squash team. I'd like to say something bad because the racquetmen finished with an 8-2 record instead of the traditional 10-0. I'd like to say something bad because they finished third in the country instead of the traditional first. I'd like to say something bad because they lost to both Princeton and Pennsylvania, marking the first time since The War (and I don't mean Vietnam) that a Crimson racquet squad has lost two matches in one season...
...season started off well for the Crimson. The racquetmen opened the year against Amherst and yawned their way to a 9-0 win. They followed up that performance with identical 9-zip squashings of a potentially-strong Army squad and a predictably-weak Trinity nine. After the Christmas break, Harvard ousted Williams 7-2, setting the stage for "The Weekend," a double-bagger road trip against Navy and Princeton...
...should be, considering two things. The first is that after three consecutive years of losing to Princeton the Harvard squash dynasty is definitely over and it's about time that its partner, overconfidence, depart with it. From now on, any belief in the innate greatness of the Crimson racquetmen can only harm the team and certainly harmed them this year. As Reese noted, "If we were in fact lacking something this year, it probably has something to do with the attitude that 'Harvard is best.' I think there will be a much better attitude next year...