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...traditional "Harvard method" involves building squash players from scratch. The classic example of the built-from-the-ground player is Vic Neiderhoffer, whom Barnaby coached in the early '60s. A non-player before entering Harvard, Neiderhoffer graduated in 1964 as the top-ranked amateur in the nation. However, now that players are getting four years of competitive squash in high school, the Neiderhoffer days are gone and the "Harvard method" is, as Panarese might say, "a dinosaur...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Ivy League Squash: Why Are the Tigers Winning? | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...finals against rookie sensation Ken Dryden and the Montreal Canadiens and to dash Ranger hopes for their first Cup since 1940; the tension was so thick that a knife would not have done the trick. Chicago was up, 2-1, but with a few minutes to go Vic Hadfield poked in a loose puck to put the game into sudden-death...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Getting Psyched | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...Vic Leonard Cos Cob, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Man of the Year | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...game against Lincoln H.S. the score reached 65-0 at halftime after repeated onside kicks by Wilson, and the losers did not come back out on the field for the third quarter. Cuccia's father and high school coach Vic Cuccia, explained that he was trying to give his players a chance to set records so colleges would notice them...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Ron Cuccia | 9/29/1978 | See Source »

...decade of undisciplined expansion, growing pains have begun to set in. On the eve of the U.S. Open, 15 former tennis greats-among them Fred Perry, Tony Trabert, Vic Seixas, Roy Emerson and Alice Marble-put their names to a two-page warning in a major tennis magazine, cautioning young players against the excesses of recent years. "The huge financial rewards you've received . . . were undreamed of when we were in our primes," the elders wrote. "How have you repaid it? By debasing tennis-its standards, its traditions, its reputation-and jeopardizing its future . . . Tennis must clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Home for a Troubled Game | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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