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Sometimes greatness lurks in the most obvious places, but still goes unrecognized and unheralded. You'd think that after winning 58 matches in a row--the longest winning streak in Harvard sports history--someone, somewhere would ask the Harvard squash team how it managed...
...thus far, members of the Harvard squash team have labored in winning obscurity at Hemenway Gymnasium. They don't get the publicity of football or hockey players. They don't receive the same kind of fan support. They just do their jobs better and with more consistency than any other athletes at Harvard...
...teams we beat pretty easily," said Peter Brooks, a member of the squash team from 1962-'66. "There wasn't much doubt that we were going...
Although every player--from the first seed to the ninth--has contributed to the current Crimson streak, one individual stands out as a catalyst. Kenton Jernigan, who graduated in January, was one of Harvard's greatest squash players and posted an incredible 40-0 record in dual matches, while leading the Crimson to four straight Ivy League and national team championships...
...February 22, 1947, Yale recorded a 9-0 triumph over the Crimson, which represented the only time in Harvard squash history that the Crimson was shut out by a collegiate opponent. And the Elis' runaway victory may be explained, in part, by the fact that Harvard suspended its athletic program during World War II whereas Yale kept on playing...