Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intercollegiate League title, it is difficult to call them the best nine-man squad in college squash because of the fact that their success seems to be more contingent on the home court advantage than is usually the case. On the other hand, Harvard showed throughout the season one of the most powerful, well balanced teams ever to play in intercollegiate competition...
However, the Crimson's depth is hardly an unusual occurrence. Barnaby's main strategy each season is to develop a squad of nine players who can all play good squash. If he happens to have a few men who can play excellent squash, so much the better, but it is balance which has made Barnaby's teams as consistently top-flight in squash as Bob kiphuth's Yale teams have been in swimming...
...This season, however, this trend was finally reversed, and it seems likely that it will remain at least partially reversed for the next few years, as Vehslage of Princeton will clearly dominate Intercollegiate squash during that time and may well become the best player in the world...
...level, despite the loss of captain Charlie Hamm, Pete Lund, Davis, and Wally Stimpson, the Crimson will probably retain its mastery. In brief, things should be back fairly close to normal next year at Hemenway Gymnasium, with only an individual champion lacking to make Harvard domination complete; this past season may have been the closest thing to a balance of power that Intercollegiate squash will see for quite some time...
...Crimson will field an almost complete team for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League individual championships, beginning today at New Haven. There is no team contest, since that was determined during regular season dual-meet competition, but the Yale swimmers figure to capture a considerable number of first-place medals. Every Ivy League college except Brown, plus Army and Navy, will enter competitors...