Word: squash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past isn't going to define the Harvard men's squash team anymore. No nostalgic tales of glory will overwhelm the courts of Hemenway Gym this season, because this season the Crimson looks ahead. Harvard will start with a clean slate...
Young though they may be, the freshmen and sophomores who comprise the rest of the ladder aren't lacking in experience. Take, for example, freshmen Marty Clark and Josh Horwitz, both of whom have yet to lose a game this season. Their squash backgrounds are impressive, indeed. Clark was the number-one U.S. under-18 player last year. Horwitz was right behind Clark at number...
...ladder, there's injury-plagued sophomore Fraiberg, who was ranked in Canada'a top 10 in 1988. Fellow classmate and number-two seed, Johnny Kaye was a three-time top-ranked player in Israel. Farokh Pandole, after twice winning the Indian Junior Nationals, quickly adapted to hard-ball squash last year to climb high on the ladder. And speaking of rapid adjustments, sophomore Mark Baker, a transfer student from England, adjusted to American squash faster than a rolling "O" to secure the number-one seed...
...season has proven how talented the Crimson is. The November match against Navy was a no-contest, with Harvard winning, 9-0. The wrath of the deep and strong had no mercy on Franklin & Marshall, which fell, 9-0. Proving that the nine lives of the squash team were just as merciless on the road, the team went on to shut out Trinity with no problem. It was only at Cornell that the Crimson caught a glimpse of mortality. Although Harvard won the match, it lost only two games...
...Harvard men's squash team (4-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy) rallied its way to a 7-2 victory against Cornell Saturday afternoon. Spoiled by three shutouts in a row, the team was happy--but not ecstatic--with its victory over last year's number-six ranked team...