Word: racquetmens
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There's really nothing more than the nine-man intercollegiate championship at stake when the Crimson racquetmen entertain Penn this afternoon at Hemenway, but then again, this is nothing...
...Crimson racquetmen engaged in some friendly intra-city relations last night at Hemenway Gym, and when the last round of handshakes had been exchanged, it was Harvard 9, MIT 0, and everybody went home smiling...
...Crimson was happy because a) it had won its seventh consecutive match of the season, b) in the process, it had surrendered just one game (out of 28) to the Engineers, and c) this match had allowed the racquetmen to loosen up between the Princeton victory of a week and a half ago and this Saturday's match with Penn, which will determine the intercollegiate champion...
...reward for each win was another day of play in Philadelphia. And three days in Philadelphia was more than enough for Harvard's racquetmen...
Dick Button--and every other Olympic sportscaster for that matter--would have observed that "the pressure is terrific on this boy." The racquetmen traded points throughout that fifth game...