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...very same day, the Quakers were beating Harvard's racquetmen for the first time ever after losing to the Crimson 25 times. Coach Jack Barnaby's squad had won 7 consecutive Ivy titles, 24 straight team matches, and 60 of 63 individual matches that winter before losing to the Quakers and their strange balls, 5-4. The loss gave Penn the league championship ahead of the Crimson. You could almost hear Dickie Lee saying, "Strange things happen in this world." Barnaby said that seeing Penn so happy almost took he sting out of the defeat. Coaches have compassion...
...Harvard tennis team left for Tarrytown, New York, yesterday afternoon on the start of a two-day, two-contest road trip against Columbia and Princeton. An improving Columbia team will host the racquetmen today and undefeated Princeton will welcome the Crimson tomorrow, for the biggest game of the season...
...Saturday, the Crimson will face its biggest challenge. The racquetmen are hoping for an upset victory over Princeton, and for Princeton's defeating Penn, so that all three teams can tie for first place as they did last year. In 1968 Princeton beat Harvard, 7-2, and through the years the Tigers have complied a 32-11 record over the Crimson team...
Penn Edges Racquetmen...
Before the match, Coach Jack Barnaby described the racquetmen's new leader as "a great player in his own right. If it weren't for Anil, Larry would be the country's best player...