Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John M. "Jack" Barnaby '32, coach of the men's squash and tennis teams for 36 years until his retirement in 1976, will return to Harvard to take the reigns of the women's squash team this season.
Or, his "other sport"--tennis. His record: 369-155. Barnaby lets his teams speak for themselves. He bowed out by leading his tennis squad to a share of the Ivy League title.
The doubles team of Navratilova and Bill Scanlon, a young, scruffy competitor with a hot topspin forehand, had blown a big lead and trailed a pair of unknowns in the deciding set. The DC-9's and the 727's continued to thunder overhead, a loudspeaker bellowed incessantly ("The front...
But the ambience just doesn't come across. TV's idea of conveying the atmosphere, the jumble, the ebb-and-flow relaxed panic that permeates the Open (and its home since last year, the National Tennis Center in Queens, N.Y.) and distinguishes it from some taped pseudo-spectacular from the...
But after seven hours of mind-zapping tennis, were the thousands satisfied? Shit, no! So they descended on this doubles match, rooting for the underdogs so the match could go 3 sets, hoping for an upset, minor as it might be. Winitsky and Fox enjoyed this unexpected support. Was Navratilova...