Word: simpson
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Princeton's bottom two players won with surprising case also. Walt Smedley blanked Steve Simpson, Harvard's hero against Penn, 15-6, 15-7, 15-8; and Tom Gilbert whipped sophomore Craig Stapleton...
...Crimson quickly leaped to a 4-0 head, only to see Penn narrow the margin to 4-3. Either Dinny Adams at number four or Simpson at eight had to win the final matches if Harvard was to maintain its 36-game victory streak...
Adams and Simpson both pulled ahead 2-1 in games but Penn's Dana Steele was beginning to wear Adams down. Meanwhile on the next court Simpson was tied it 9-9 with Quaker Hunter Lott. Then Simpson got hot. A passing shot down the wall and two tinned shots by Lott made it 12-9. Simpson, not easing up for second, hit a dazzling corner shot which all but wrecked Lott's confidence. The last two points were easy winners for Simpson...
Princeton's strongest asset is its hottom four players, who out-experience Crimson opponents Dave Benjamin, Todd Wilkinson, Steve Simpson, and Craig Stapleton...
Take Professor Robert Braucher of the Law School, for instance. Always a major factor in the tournament, he mauled a hapless student, 3-0, in his first round match last Saturday. And George Siegel, professor of Russian Literature, gave the varsity's number eight man, Steve Simpson, his toughest competition of the season before bowing...