Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many buildings, could with no trouble make available space large enough to fit the requirements of a new site, an area fifty-five by seventy feet (the dimensions of a ten place range) has proved a great problem. The best answer so far is the basement of the House Squash Courts building, the stucco excrescence surrounded by Kirkland, Lowell, Eliot, and the IAB. There is sufficient room there for a ten or twelve place range, and the concrete walls are strong enough to withstand a 22 bullet...
There are several structural problems, of course. Some means must be devised for either bullet-proofing the wooden ceiling or otherwise making it impossible to shoot the squash players upstairs. One wall must be made bullet-proof as well--either sand, armor-plating or fibreglass will do--and there must be lighting and heating added...
Charlie Ufford, National Intercollegiate Singles champion, edged Captain Jim Bacon for the University Squash title at Hemenway Gymnasium yesterday afternoon...
...Bacon is a great threat to upset Ufford," Jack Barnaby, varsity squash coach said last night, "and this match pits the power game of Bacon against the finesse game of Ufford--two very different styles of play." In the intercollegiates held in Cambridge two weeks ago, Bacon lost to Dick Squires by one point, and Squires went on to the finals with Ufford. Barnaby feels that had Bacon won that point, it would have made an all-Harvard final match...
Permanent trophies to be presented to the winner and runner-up in the University tournament have been given by the three Foster brothers who have been so prominent on Crimson squash teams in the last few years. Rockwood "Adam" Foster, Henry Foster, and Hugh Foster have donated the prizes which will be awarded by their 92-year-old grandfather, C.H.W. Foster '81, who was a former Crimson football and track star...