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...been called "the Ty Cobb of squash." "Vic would chew glass to win," says his former Harvard coach, John Barnaby. Niederhoffer has been accused, on occasion, of being a "court hog," deliberately getting in his opponents' way-a capital crime in squash. ("There are two ways of dealing with a court hog," explains a player. "First you talk to him. Then you let him have it right in the butt.") He is also a bit too temperamental for traditionalists' tastes-protesting volubly whenever he thinks an opponent has blocked his way, flinging his arms toward heaven when...
...Howe won the first game easily, 15-11. But Niederhoffer fought back to win the second. With the score tied 13-13 in the third, he mused loudly, "What shall I do?", then uncorked a smashing serve for an ace and went on to win. In the last game, Vic caught his weary opponent leaning the wrong way with two successive backhand drop shots, ran out the match 15-13. "Beautiful game, Victor," conceded Howe, as both exhausted players sagged against the wall. Up in the gallery, Niederhoffer's mother, onetime ladies' paddle-tennis champion at Brooklyn...
...freshman, Vic Niederhoffer, developed into one of the nation's top squash players in little more than two years, and by the time of his senior year, he was clearly a class above all other collegians...
...Vic Niederhoffer, captain of the 1964 Harvard squash team, won the USSRA Championship in New York yesterday, defeating former champ Sam Howe in the finals...
Though the Harvard varsity has no one entered in the individual competition. one freshman, will be playing, along with Terry Robertson '63, who is now at the Harvard Law School. Two of the most likely candidates to dethrone defending champ Steve Vehlslaghe are Vic Niederholfer '64 and Bob Netherington, a third-year student in the Episcopal Theological Seminary...