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...addition to fielding successful teams, Barnaby also coached many squash players who went on to have successful sports careers after college. Among these players was Victor Niederhoffer ’64, who had no squash experience prior to coming to Harvard but under Barnaby’s tutelage won the national intercollegiate championships in 1964 and became one of the world’s top players...
Dave Fish ’72, the Harvard men’s tennis coach and former men’s squash coach, said coaches, as well as players, benefited from Barnaby’s instruction...
Fish said Barnaby even authored the 1935 book, The Art of Squash Racquets, in Cowles’s name and, when Barnaby handed a draft to Cowles for editing, Cowles published Barnaby’s work unchanged...
Barnaby’s beginnings as a squash coach were modest. When he coached at the Harvard Club of Boston in the ’30s, squash pros received little respect and Barnaby was even required to enter the building through the back door...
...result, Barnaby was a strong supporter of the development of professional squash in the ’70s and the formation of the World Professional Squash Association. He was also a pioneer in developing a system for the certification of squash pros...