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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's most recent rags to riches saga would cause even Horatio Alger to pull a three-point turn from six-feet under. Despite inadequate funding from a varsity-sport-obsessed Athletic Department, weather-beaten practice facilities and a severe shortage of even primitive equipment, the table tennis team is ranked numero uno in the East after its recent win at the Northeast Intercollegiate Table Tennis League championships...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: King Pong Wins Upset Over 60 Boylston Brass | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

...fact that such harmony exists in a sport so individualistic by nature is a compliment to sophomore captain Katie Ditzler, freshman coach Peter Felske and in particular, the Harvard-Radcliffe admissions office. Last spring, the latter served and volleyed acceptance letters to four women--Pierpont, Martha Roberts, Meg Meyer and Leslie Miller--who know their way around a tennis court. The rest will soon be history...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: United We Stand, Divided We Conquer | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

...around the fact," Felske admits, "that tennis is an individual sport, and it's difficult to get people together to think as a team. You don't make friends with challenge matches. But I'm trying to make this a more cohesive unit. We've been able to travel together, which was a great opportunity...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: United We Stand, Divided We Conquer | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

...think tennis is more than just a game, although it has often been tough for me to explain to others exactly what makes it so. First, tennis, like any sport, dictates that life continues, but only within a narrowly prescribed set of rules. It neatly removes most ambiguities and most inequities and leaves you standing on a simple, lined court armed only with your tools of competition. In its simplicity, it gives a very concrete appraisal of your progress. It promises a simple payoff--if you work hard, you will improve; if you don't you will not. Life rarely...

Author: By Kevin Shaw, | Title: Tennis--Game, Set, Match and More | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

Yale (3-6) looks almost as strong as Princeton as they sport the winners of the national indoor doubles--Matt Doyle and Cary Leeds--a host of talented veterans, and a strong freshman crop...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Netmen Begin Race for League Crown | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

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