Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having lost only one collegiate match during the current season, and that to Princeton, the Varsity squash team, rated a slight underdog, hopes to keep the rest of its slate clean when it meets a strong Blue squad at New Haven on Saturday...
...Varsity squash team turned in a poor showing in the Intercollegiates at New Haven Saturday, with Gaelen Felt, numbers one, losing to Bill Couley, Yale's dark horse, in the first round, and all the other Harvard entrants going under before the fourth round. Charlie Brinton of Princeton, national champion for the second year in a row, and defending intercollegiate champion, won the tournament without dropping a game. Couley, ranking four for Yale, was the surprise entry, beating Felt in the first round, trimming Yale's number one, and losing only to Brinton in the finals...
Eugene H. Nickerson '41, who in spite of a paralyzed right arm was star of last year's Varsity squash match with Yale, was selected by William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics in his annual report issued yesterday, as Harvard Athletic Hero for the year...
...crippled by an attack of infantile paralysis five years ago, Nickerson took up squash, learned to play with his left, and by the middle of his Junior year became the thirteenth ranking player in the University...
...Deacon squash team is also repeating as league champ, although last year the Crimson racquetmen lost to Silliman...