Word: skillman
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Only captain Pete Heydemann returns from the Eli squad that Harvard dumped 6-3 last year, and the reserves and sophomores that coach John Skillman has plugged into the singles ladder smack of inexperience...
Last Wednesday Yale tennis coach John Skillman refused to bring his team to rainy Cambridge, because he didn't want to play on Harvard's indoor courts. For this reason today's scheduled make-up match may not materialize, if it rains again...
Trying to split his power and win two of the doubles. Yale coach John Skillman put Waltz with McCallum at second doubles against Adelsberg and Gonzalez. Although the move backfired in the first doubles, Yale handed Adelsberg and Gonzalez their first loss in two years of play at Harvard...
...Yale's great 1960 team, which swept through the entire season undefeated. Don Dell and Gene Scott, the finalists in last year's New England tournament, have graduated, as have Giff Hopkins, Rick Wallace and Sunny Howe. Mike Neely has dropped out of school, and--to top coach John Skillman's woes--Sid Wood and captain-elect Craig Joyner were killed in a tragic automobile accident just before the current season started...
Joyner was sixth man on the Yale team that last year stretched its winning streak to 27 matches and won the Ivy and Big Three titles. Skillman had high hopes for another undefeated season this spring...