Word: squash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a golden age of Harvard supremacy on the squash courts came to an end with a Yale victory last year, Harry Cowles was not grief-stricken...
...Crimson coach, who has nursed the game from its infancy in 1914 to a nation-wide pastime today, it was just a sign that squash is growing up, that the pupil is getting good enough to beat the master now and then...
Cowles got in on the ground floor when America's first squash courts were built at the Harvard Club of New York, where he had been playing squash tennis, nearly 25 years ago. In 1920 he came to Harvard, destined to coach 17 undefeated teams. His book, "The Art of Squash Racquets," is the standard manual of the game...
...points with pride to the fact that squash is now even penetrating warmer sections of the country, that with almost 400 players in the Houses it is probably Harvard's most popular sport. When the Cambridge University team meets the Crimson racquetmen on Thursday, March 24, intercollegiate squash will be on an international plane for the first time...
Lettermen of three Varsity sports elected their captains for next year at Dillon Field House yesterday afternoon. Chosen for basketball is Ulysses J. Lupien, Jr. '39; for hockey, F. Austin Harding, Jr. '39; and for squash, George B. Blake...