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Freshman Dave Boyum, currently Harvard's number-one player, came out of high school last year as the most sought-after squash player in the country. He was the second-best junior in North America, the highest ranked junior who planned to enter college. Every program that took itself seriously put on its Sunday best...
Though their past is Iummous the Quakers could not dig up enough personnel Saturday to give the second-best team in the country an even halfway-competitive match. Harvard turned its back on remembrances of things past by compromising the Quakers...
...neither a poor reflection on the sophomore nor surprising if the pressure of trying to follow in his brother's footsteps played a role in his decision. Constant comparisons to and queries about the second-best squash player in the world have got to be tough...
Sure, some good things happened Saturday, like Jim Callinan's 190 yards on 34 carries for the second-best rushing day in Harvard history, or Tiger Bob Holly's 24 completions for 278 yards and two touch-downs or Princeton scatback Larry Van Pelt's 99 yards on the ground at the Stadium before...
...clubs that finished with the second-best records in their divisions won play-off spots, as did three with the third-best records and Kansas City with its appalling fourth-place finish. In the playoffs, the Phillies lost twice to the Expos in Montreal, then evened the series at home on George Vukovich's tenth-inning homerun...