Word: squash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even Cook. Throughout his career, Van Doren has been so well-rounded that none of his friends ever regarded him as a bookworm. He plays good squash and tennis, won a $60-a-month athletic scholarship at St. John's to coach intramural basketball and baseball, played extracurricular bridge and pool. As a World War II pre-aviation cadet whose initials doomed him to the nickname "V.D.," he became adept at poker. Pooling resources with a buddy named Laural Whipkey, now an advertising man in West Virginia, Corporal Van Doren played poker twelve hours...
...biggest sports upsets in recent years caught up with a high-riding varsity squash team at Annapolis on Saturday. Navy completely dominated the heavily-favored Crimson, administering a resounding 8-1 shellacking, before a cheering, foot-stamping capacity crowd...
Heckscher played his usual excellent brand of squash as he toppled Midshipman Ken Meneke, 15-9, 15-12, 5-15, 15-8, but his teammates were unable to duplicate his performance. The only really close match came at number nine singles where Hank Holmes lost a very tight match to Mike Mitchell...
However, since it seems very unlikely that any team this year will be able to hand a defeat to a member of the varsity's top five, the Princeton match, and indeed every other Crimson squash match this year, should be regarded as a fairly safe win. Only a bad case of overconfidence or several key injuries could jeopardize the team's chances for an undefeated season...
...present time, the varsity's record on the season is 4-0, with wins over McGill, Cornell, Williams, and the Montreal Squash Club...