Word: tennised
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The varsity tennis team journeys to Brown today to defeat the Bruins. After the wins of the past week, this match will be definitely anti-climatic, and will serve only to give the Crimson its thirteenth win of the season, and its seventeenth straight win since it lost to Miami...
An inspired varsity tennis team refused to yield an inch, either to Presbyterian College's reputation or to its players, and, producing some of the finest tennis seen at Harvard in many years, pulled the seemingly impossible feat of defeating Presbyterian, 6 to 3.
It would be impossible to say that any one player was the individual "star" of the match, for more than anything else, this was a team victory. Probably the most masterful display of tennis craftsmanship was put on by little Steve Gottlieb in the second singles position.
The varsity tennis team will undergo an abrupt metamorphosis today as it makes the unfortunate transition from the role of heavy favorite, which it has occupied for the last 10 matches, to that of definite underdog, when it faces Presbyterian College on the Soldiers Field Courts at 2 p.m.
Presbyterian first served notice on the college tennis world by upsetting the University of Miami team, 5 to 4.