Word: squade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike football, basketball, or hockey, the game of squash racquets does not depend on team cooperation, or even on the mastery of a specific style by the members of the squad. The only way a coach could ever get a squad to play the same basic type of game would be to scout hundreds of candidates, looking for similarity of style. So Coach Barnaby has sensibly resolved to bring out the individual talent in each man rather than to impose a special game upon the player. On the Barnaby team, each man plays according to his own bent...
Because anyone who wants to play squash can practice and get advise under expert tutelage, this year's squad has depth. Even though the number one man, Henry Foster will be out with a broken ankle and the number three man, Joe Clark, will be unable to make the trip, Coach Barnaby feels that the team has an excellent chance of winning Friday. "This year's squad is probably the best since the war," he asserted yesterday, "and I believe this is so because our long range policy of letting anyone play who wants to has paid off." Three members...
Five who might be playing tomorrow will be out of action, and yet Barnaby, like Valpey, doesn't complain. "We're going to Dartmouth to win, and we expect to do it," he stated. His attitude was typical of that of the squad...
...Hoar, captain of the Freshman squad last year relies chiefly on power for his points and his hard service is the high point of his game...
...shifting defense was frequently sloppy and uncoordinated. The Terriers failed to pick up men and fouled often, and Shepard's squad was able to break in easily to score. A fast sophomore, Charlie Carson, led the Terrier scoring with 12 points...