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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...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Harvesting the Grapes of Wrath | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Men's Squash Squad Quells Quakers | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Closing on the Big One: Squash News | 2/5/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Gridders, Princeton Play to 17-17 Tie | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball's Misbegotten Season | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

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