Word: squash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Featured by the brilliant playing of Captain W. J. Iselin '29, who decisively defeated Myles Baker '22, former National Squash Racquets Champion, the University squash team opened its season with a 3 to 2 victory over the Union Boat Club Saturday afternoon...
...Class B team of the University likewise inaugurated its season with a victory, defeating the Newton Center Squash Tennis Club four to one on the University courts. The Freshman group maintained its record of last week by taking every match from the Walkover Club at Brockton, thus tieing with the Harvard Club of Boston for first place in the C division. The University C team, however, lost to the Union Boat Club group in their class, dropping three matches to their oppon. ents...
...University Squash team will open its season this afternoon when it meets the Union Boat Club class A team on the University courts. Captain Iselin is playing in excellent form this year, and should lead the team to a successful season. Last weekend in the finals of a tournament held at the Rockaway Hunting Club, he defeated W. Palmer Dixon '25, former captain of the University team, and national singles champion in 1925. The following men will make up the team: Captain W. J. Iselin '29, B. H. Whitbeck '29, J. L. Ware '30, Ogden Phipps...
Football, together with touch football, led the list with a total of 317 men. Its nearest competitor was tennis, with 256 men. Tennis and crew each called out 90 men. Seventy-seven were playing squash and cross-country appeared at the foot of the list with 56 runners...
...profession which requires a maximum of brute strength has the Dental School decided on compulsory athletics for its members. More probably the authorities realized that the men in the Dental School are peculiarly unfortunate in their relation to athletic facilities, lying as they do far from the gymnasia and squash courts of Cambridge. Students in the Law and Business Schools, as well as those in the graduate schools more closely related to the College, have always found it easy to spend a little time each day in Hemenway or a conveniently located squash court warren...