Word: squash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reports indicate that Army will be a good team to prepare for, because if the cadets produce their customary brand of squash, their play will be unimaginative but dogged, unspectacular but effective. Conditioning will therefore be a key factor in the games...
With the 1960 squash season opening Saturday, Harvard's team presents an impressive array of nationally-ranked veterans and boy wonders. And if Coach Jack Barnaby repeats his usual trick of producing men on the bottom who are almost equal to the number one player, the University's chances of walking off with the Eastern Championship are favorable indeed...
Experience and conditioning will be on Harvard's side this Saturday when the team opens against Army at West Point. Since Nov. 10 the Crimson raquetmen have been playing local squash clubs, and once laced M.I.T.'s top men, five matches to nothing...
...against Navy a week later, will probably be one of the most important matches. Last year at Annapolis, the Middies were able to capitalize on their overheated courts and over-came the visitors, later winning the Eastern Championship. But this year the game will be in Cambridge, and the squash team is hoping to avenge the defeat...
...courses, team teaching, counseling. They urged Amherst students to enter a profession "on the way up," suggested that Amherst could thereby help "deflate the grey-flannel success myth" prevalent at "provincial" Ivy League colleges. One prep-school teacher asked: "What other job would pay me to play squash every afternoon? In what other position could I sit around evenings reading Conrad, without neglecting what I should be doing...